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Warne Quartet Marsh
Berlin 1980
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Like the Angels (Body and Soul)
2. Leave Me - Warne Marsh, Tristano, L.
3. The Family Song - Warne Marsh, Mosca, Sal
4. Background Music
5. April (I Remember April) - Warne Marsh, Tristano, L.
6. And Then There's Music (It's You or No One)
7. Background Music [*]
8. She's Funny That Way [*] - Warne Marsh, Moret
9. The Hard Way [*] - Warne Marsh, Mosca, Sal
10. Noteworthy [*]

CD Details

All Artists: Warne Quartet Marsh
Title: Berlin 1980
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Gambit Spain
Release Date: 3/27/2006
Album Type: Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style: Cool Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 8436028692330, 758661475124

Synopsis

Album Description

On this outstanding edition by one of the most successful ''pupils '' of Lennie Tristano, the first six tracks are from a concert at the Berlin Philharmonic auditorium on October 30, 1980, by the Warne Marsh Quarter with the tenor saxophonist accompanied by pianist Sal Mosca, bassist Eddie gomez, and legendary drummer Kenny Clarke. As bonus tracks, this CD offers two selections from a live concert on April 25, 1976 at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York with a quarter comprising Marsh, Mosca, Sam Jones on bass, and Roy Haynes on drums. Gambit Records. 2006

CD Reviews

Three stars is a stretch; there are some real problems here.

BebopBoomer | Virginia | 05/10/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Four tracks here can be quickly discussed. #7-8 are good Marsh,if not absolutely top-drawer. Tracks 9-10 are haus-musik noodling (in pianist Sal Mosca's case,almost comically so) and should not have been released.

This leaves tracks 1-6,from a live concert in Berlin. Marsh is not in particularly good form here,although of course even mediocre Marsh beats most tenor players. Either his tone on this evening was unusually shaky,or else there is a slight wobble on the original tape source. Sal Mosca has a few good moments, but he lacks Warne Marsh's rhythmic agility or Lennie Tristano's drive,and often wrong-foots himself; he also tends to run out of ideas about half-way through his solos. Kenny Clarke and Eddy Gomez of course make a terrific rhythm section,although Clarke is perhaps too active and powerful a drummer to be ideal for this kind of music (for example, Roy Haynes on tracks 7-8 is quieter and to my mind more effective as a result).

I'm a big fan of Warne Marsh,but there are far better examples of his playing currently available on CD--"Star Highs" and "Unissued Copenhagen Recordings" to name just two."