File under: Free ImprovisationContemporary
This 1983 recording, originally issued on Sackville LP, features jazz trumpeter Joe McPhee with the Bill Smith Ensemble.
” …a stimulating set of avant-garde music. The interplay between these masterful improvisors on group originals and Albert Ayler’s classic ‘Ghosts’ is consistently impressive and worthy of a close investigation by the more open-eared segment of the jazz audience.” — Scott Yanow, Allmusic
“Vistation breathes as if it were music that was recorded yesterday. Joe McPhee and the Bill Smith Ensemble play music that has no history assigned to it that is evident in the listening. It is the underground vein of music that came up to visit its public.” (5 stars) –Lyn Horton, Jazz Review
Details
File under: Free ImprovisationContemporary
Cat. number: BXH 034
Year: 2003
Notes:
Recorded at McClear Palace Studios, Toronto on November 6, 1983.
Originally manufactured and released in March, 1985 (not 1885 as stated) by Sackville Records.
Comes in a gatefold cardboard sleeve with disk wrapped in a separate generic white inner sleeve.
Includes an 8-page booklet with notes in English.
Release notes:
Recorded at McClear Palace Studios, Toronto on November 6, 1983.
Originally manufactured and released in March, 1985 (not 1885 as stated) by Sackville Records.
Comes in a gatefold cardboard sleeve with disk wrapped in a separate generic white inner sleeve.
Includes an 8-page booklet with notes in English.
Tracklist
| 1 | Exuma | 4:15 | |
| 2 | Eleuthera | 10:13 | |
| 3 | Home At Last | 7:05 | |
| 4 | Ghosts | 7:14 | |
| 5 | If I Don´t Fall | 5:40 | |
| 6 | A-Configuration | 8:17 |
Credits
- David Lee
- Bass
- Kathrine Lucas
- Cover, Design [Graphic]
- Richard Barnard
- Drums
- The Bill Smith Ensemble
- Ensemble
- Lou Kannenstine
- Executive-Producer
- Joe McPhee
- Flugelhorn, Trumpet [Pocket], Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
- Bill Shoemaker
- Liner Notes [Original Album Notes]
- Bill Smith
- Photography By, Design [Original Jacket], Soprano Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Producer
- Phil Sheridan
- Recorded By
- Maureen Cochrane
- Typography [Typesetting]
- David Prentice
- Violin
