Songlines [Import]

Fred Hopkins, Rashied Ali, Peter Brotzmann | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 6, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Fmp
• ASIN: B00000JONZ
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #647,356 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. No Messages

2. Old Man Kangaroo

3. Man in a Vacuum

4. ...It Is Solved by Walking

5. Songlines

6. Two Birds in a Feather

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars look again, July 13, 2005

By 

John C. Graham (toronto, ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songlines (Audio CD)

This one has been out for a while now. I remember it caused a little commotion at the time. Was Peter Brotzmann trying to play standards? Or ballads? That sort of thing. Lots of that sort of stuff was going on then. In the tradition with players like Braxton, Aurthur Blythe, and even Air. Marketing stuff.

Not Brotzmann. On this one he is just more reflective, more (dare I say it)sensitive. The wailing that one might have expected seems somewhat tempered. It may be the influence of Fred Hopkins and Rashid Ali who are simply outstanding all the way through. Fred Hopkins, in particular, comes through loud and clear!

And I love it. It is a great program. I always let it play through. It's not a Brotzmann "damn the torpedoes"record and for that reason it's different. You don't have to grab the edge of your seat to hang on. It's a quieter intensity that pervades this one and there are many days when it's just what the doctor ordered. A fabulous studio recording by FMP. Get this one!

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not brotzmann's terrain, July 1, 2006

By 

weinert "samuel" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songlines (Audio CD)

at this session, it gets clear that brotzmann's style as a brutal free blower is kind of a one trick pony. hopkins forces him to relate to changes or at least the abstraction of changes. and at this point exactely, the limits of brotzmann's approach get clear. He fails in that. His playing is clumsy, bumpy at times, when he is forced to relate to changes. Therefore, this trio does not find it's unity.

It's not brotzmann's terrain.