Destiny (Marilyn Crispell album)

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Destiny
Live album by
Released1995
RecordedApril 8, 1994
VenueHotHouse, Chicago
GenreJazz
Length66:41
LabelOkka Disk
ProducerMarilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell chronology
Spring Tour
(1995)
Destiny
(1995)
Live at Mills College, 1995
(1995)
Fred Anderson chronology
Vintage Duets
(1994)
Destiny
(1995)
Birdhouse
(1996)

Destiny is an album by American jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell with saxophonist Fred Anderson and drummer Hamid Drake recorded in the 1994 "Women of the New Jazz" festival at Chicago’s HotHouse and released on Okka Disk.

Background

First time she heard Anderson playing tenor sax at the

Hyperion, released on Music & Arts.The three musicians had played together only in a studio rehearsal the day before the live show.[1]

Anderson and Drake recorded a duet at this session that was included on Anderson's Birdhouse (1996).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Tom Hull – on the Web
B+[5]

In her review for AllMusic, Joslyn Layne states "this is an incredible performance by a stunning group of musicians whose skill and chemistry completely sidestep the fact that this is only the second time that these three great jazz improvisers ever played together."[2]

The

Down Beat review by Jon Andrews says that Anderson "communicates without the harshness and split tones that alienated many listener in that era" and notes that Crispell "displays a broad range of expression from percussive rage to crystalline delicacy."[4]

The authors of the

Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 3½ stars, and commented: "this seems like a relationship written in the stars, and it allows them to build up whole areas of interaction in which the exchange of ideas is almost too fast to follow. Drake provides sterling accompaniment and... often takes the initiative in breaking up Crispell's long, suspended lines into shorter, more discursive sections."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Marilyn Crispell, Hamid Drake, Fred Anderson
  1. "Destiny 1" - 14:16
  2. "Destiny 2" - 8:26
  3. "Destiny 3" - 7:29
  4. "Destiny 4" - 13:36
  5. "Destiny 5" - 14:37
  6. "Destiny 6" - 8:17

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Destiny at Okka Disk
  2. ^
    AllMusic
    . Retrieved February 9, 2014.
  3. ^ .
  4. ^ a b Andrews, Jon. Destiny review. Down Beat June 95: page 52. Print.
  5. ^ Hull, Tom. "Recycled Goods (#105)". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved March 16, 2022.