David Murray

Featuring: Lawrence 'Butch' Morris

condition (records/cover): NM / NM

Gatefold sleeve.

Double LP on the British Cadillac label: David Murray live in London in the late seventies, stretching out at concert length in the period when his arrival was the news in creative music on both sides of the Atlantic - the loft generation's brightest tenor, touring the word abroad. Two discs give the full Murray experience room to actually unfold, which single LPs of this era never quite could: the ballads that float on pure breath and subtone, the launches into altissimo fire that seem to bend the room, the sense of a young master testing in public exactly how much history one tenor solo can carry before it bursts. Answer: more than anyone thought.

The Cadillac documents of this London period are prized items in the vast Murray discography - modest editions from a devoted independent, capturing lightning with honest equipment. Essential early evidence of an enormous talent announcing itself at length, to an audience that knew exactly what it was hearing.