One Long Night

Frank Strozier - Long Night (1962) {Milestone MCD-47095-2 rel 2002}
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© 1961-62, 2002 Jazzland / Milestone / Fantasy | MCD-47095-2
Jazz / Hard Bop / Post Be-bop / Saxophone

In a perfect world, Frank Strozier would have built a large catalog at Jazzland. But regrettably, the alto saxman's association with Jazzland was brief. Strozier only recorded two albums for the label – Long Night in 1961 and March of the Siamese Children in 1962 – and both were produced by Orrin Keepnews. In 2002, Fantasy reissued the two albums back to back on this 78-minute Milestone CD. Long Night (which features tenor saxman George Coleman and tends to favor a pensive, reflective approach) is the more essential of the two, but March of the Siamese Children is certainly solid and enjoyable.

The liner notes of this first time CD edition of two mid-80's vinyl albums from folk vocalist Loren Auerbach explain how this memorable collaboration with Bert Jansch led on a winding path through the intervening years to recent marriage. One can hear sparks of muses co-mingling betwixt the Icelandic poetry graduate student-turned-unsteady-vocalist and the diving swallow grace notes of Jansch's steelstring guitar…

Kyle Gann - Long Night - Sarah Cahill (2005) {Cold Blue Music CB0019}
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© 2005 Cold Blue Music | CB0019
Classical / Modern Classical / Totalism / Post Minimalism / Avant-Garde / Piano

Long Night is an exquisitely drifting, ever-unfolding work for three pianos, all of which are played by noted new music pianist Sarah Cahill. Kyle Gann is a highly regarded composer, author, and award-winning critic (prolifically penning over 2,000 articles for 40 publications) who has written about new music for the Village Voice since 1986. His own music, informed by the American experimental tradition, is complex, unusual, beautiful, and moving. "Kyle Gann is a force of nature…a commanding presence in the landscape of American music."

Several star-crossed couples experience both the thrills and the disappointment of romance over the course of one evening in this romantic comedy. Reporter Marcello (Giancarlo Giannini) has a brief encounter with Irene (Marie Trintignant) while waiting for a train. A young woman who has lost her sight (Silvia De Santis) finds herself falling for the voice of a ship's captain (Yari Gugilucci) she hears over a radio broadcast.