The Way Out is Via the Door

Courage with Robert Creeley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 2002)
• Original Release Date: July 16, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: 482
• ASIN: B000069V2L
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #749,983 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

Robert Creeley is one of America's greatest living poets; he was the link between the Beat poets of Greenwich Village and those of Black Mountain College. Creeley has long acknowledged the influence of jazz and improvised music on his work, and in fact considers himself a musician in these contexts. His work was the source of inspiration for Home, the 1980 ECM album in which Swallow set Creeley's words to music sung by Sheila Jordan.

Steve Swallow studied piano and trumpet has played with many of the greats. In 1960 he began to play with Paul Bley, The Jimmy Giuffre Trio and George Russell’s sextet, which featured Eric Dolphy and Thad Jones. He also performed in the early '60s with Joao Gilberto, Sheila Jordan, and bands led by Benny Goodman, Marian McPartland, Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer and Chick Corea. He has placed first (electric bass) in the Downbeat International Critics Poll since 1983, and in the Downbeat Readers Poll since 1985.

Impressionistic jazz drummer Chris Massey was born in Buffalo, New York and now resides in Switzerland. He has performed with some of the most influential artists of the modern era, including Bill Frisell, David Torn, Christy Doran, Kevin Eubanks, Hans Koch, Chris Duarte, and Brian Gephart.

Texas-based composer and reedman John Mills has performed with Kenny Wheeler, Carla Bley, Roscoe Mitchell, Tonina Horta, Billy Hart and Mitch Watkins.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars linear shadings in the moment, April 28, 2004

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This review is from: The Way Out is Via the Door (Audio CD)

If you are a connessouir of line in music and poetry, then this CD creates a wonderful environment for you to drop into.
Robert Creeley and Steve Swallow need no introduction, both are masters ond originators of linear performance. Chris Massey and John Mills are the new underlings, the apprentices, the artists who will take the idea's and run with them into a new world of extreme fragility. Here the lines weave in and out and around each other, spoken word and music. I've never heard a better represenataion of the joining of the two styles.
Saxophone, bass, drums, voice. Intimate and daring.
Why hasn't this been more visible in the print media???
A must for Creeley fans!