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This was a collaboration between English composer and producer Chris Evans (aka Christopher Evans-Ironside) and American-German singer David Hanselmann. Evans had already been involved in the field of Disco Music, while Hanselmann was a regular collaborator in German/Austrian groups, even if this came during their fading days, like Message, Triumvirat and Eela Craig. They appeared in 1980 with the album ''Stonehedge'', recorded at the Europa Sound Studios in Friedrichsdorf and the Star Studios in Hamburg, released on the WEA label, all orchestrations are credited to Evans, while Hanselmann provided lead vocals. The album features also drummer Dicky Tarrach, formerly of Brave New World, bassist Tissy Thiers, keyboardist Ludwig Rehberg and guitarists Juergen Schroeder, Reinhard Besser and Roy Louis, the later being a member of Passport…

David Torn is a musical chameleon, moving effortlessly from soundtrack work to pop projects to edgy improv, extending his guitar with electronic programming, sampling, and overdubs. Here he sets out at the helm of an improvising quartet with some regular partners from the New York Downtown School (saxophonist Tim Berne, keyboard player Craig Taborn, and drummer Tom Rainey) and then transforms the results with live sampling and extended studio tinkerings until the present set of pieces emerge in all their fractured and compound glory. Sounds morph suddenly into other sounds—-funk into heavy metal, guitar into radio wave, drum into bass–and time stretches and contracts.

For Robert Altman's Kansas City film, since the story was centered in 1934 Kansas City, Altman wanted to have younger musicians depict top jazz artists of the era playing at one of the legendary jam sessions. He recruited many of today's top modernists and, although they used arrangements based on older recordings, they did not have to necessarily improvise in the style of the time. Actually, it is surprising how close the musicians often come, recapturing not just the music of the period but the adventurous spirit of such immortals as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, and Lester Young. A dozen songs from the film are on this very enjoyable and unique CD, which features such players as trumpeter Nicholas Payton, clarinetist Don Byron, guitarists Russell Malone and Mark Whitfield, pianists Geri Allen and Cyrus Chestnut, altoists Jesse Davis and David "Fathead" Newman, and four of today's great tenors: James Carter, Craig Handy, David Murray, and Joshua Redman. In addition, Kevin Mahogany sings "I Left My Baby." Although there are some audience shouts on a couple of the pieces, this is one soundtrack album that very much stands up on its own.

David Murray Octets - The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note (2011) {5CD BoxSet, CAM Jazz rec 1980-1991}
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© 1980-91, 2011 CAM Jazz / Black Saint / Soul Note | BXS 1010
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Saxophone / Bass Clarinet

Tenor sax and bass clarinet player's excellent series of Octet efforts for Black Saint in the 80s – a run of brilliant albums with lineups featuring Henry Threadgill, Olu Dara, Butch Morris, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Bobby Bradford, Hugh Ragin, James Spaulding and other great players – 5 albums in a CD box set in the Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note series! It includes the Ming album from 1980, Home from '82, Murray's Steps (released in '83), New Life from '87 and Hope Scope from '91 – each in a cardboard sleeve with the original album art and each remastered. (All albums come in cardboard sleeve replicas of the original album covers!)