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This is raw, unfiltered music, created in the moment, involving a degree of chance… An intoxicating experience for admirers of free-jazz. — Allaboutjazz.com

Release Date: 8th Mar 2024
Catalogue No: WR4817
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Length: 42 minutes

David Liebman, Jeff Williams: First Set

Work length20:44

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David Liebman, Jeff Williams

David Liebman, Jeff Williams: Second Set

Work length21:25

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David Liebman, Jeff Williams

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As master drummer Jeff Williams sorted through his archive of cassette tapes from his extensive international career, he had no idea that hidden within it would be a recording of a 1990 evening when he joined storied NYC legend David Liebman for a set of spontaneous performances. Reunited together fifteen years after the breakup of their seminal band Lookout Farm in 1976, the two players reaffirmed their deep musical bond with a set of free-flowing exploratory dialogues in front of a receptive audience. Believed lost for many years, these performances can now be experienced again, with all their fearless freshness and pure committed musicianship undimmed by the passage of time.

Jeff Williams has established a formidable reputation as a drummer, composer, educator and bandleader on both sides of the Atlantic. His relationship with Liebman was forged in the exciting, expansive atmosphere of the New York scene in the early 70s: the meeting of Williams, the laid back Midwesterner, and Liebman, the mercurial, quintessential New Yorker, was an inspired coming together of opposites that always made the creative sparks fly.

The performances are revelatory, moving in pure improvisation from clear, songlike melody to furious density, from ambience to pulsing groove, from light into darkness and back again. Cleaned up and remastered by Alex Bonney, the sound of the tape captures the warm, wood-lined ambience of the room, allowing the full power and dynamics of William's drums and the warmth and fullness of Liebmans' soprano sax to sing out, engaging the contemporary listener just as it engaged the hip Manhattan crowd thirty three years ago.

David Liebman saxophone

Jeff Williams: drums

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This is raw, unfiltered music, created in the moment, involving a degree of chance… An intoxicating experience for admirers of free-jazz.

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