Barre Phillips: Call Me When You Get There

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Barre Phillips, born 1934 in California, has been at the forefront of developments in improvised music over the last four decades. Ornette Coleman set him on his path around 1960, and on his arrival in New York, Phillips was soon working the extremes of the New Thing – playing improvised chamber music with Jimmy Giuffre on the one hand and freely expressive 'fire music' with Archie Shepp on the other (“it was just two different kinds of intensity”). He also played with Eric Dolphy, George Russell, Bill Dixon, and many others. In 1967 he moved to London and played with John Stevens' history-making Spontaneous Music Ensemble and with the South African musicians around Chris MacGregor, and recorded the first solo bass album, Journal Violone. In 1969 he co-founded the powerhouse group called The Trio with John Surman and Stu Martin, still widely-regarded as one of the most exciting groups of the era.

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Tracks:

1. Grants Pass
2. Craggy Slope
3. Amos Crowns Barn
4. Pittmans Rock
5. Highway 37
6. Winslow Cavern
7. Riverbend
8. Brewstertown 2

Barre Phillips: Bass