Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.Free Music Production: FMP CD 102.
Free improvisations for two double basses.
Peter Kowald, Barre Phillips (1st-4th works), Barry Guy (5th-6th works), Maarten Altena (7th-10th works), double bass.
Recorded at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, March 1-2, 1979 (1st-4th works) and March 19-20, 1982 (7th-10th works) , and at the Flöz, Berlin, October 3-4, 1981.
Program notes by David Walter and biographical notes by Peter Kowald in English and German ([5] pages), inserted.
Contents: Kowald and Phillips. Die Jungen : Random generators ; Two fingers please ; Ein Stück ins blaue--Chops ; The boys (5:24; 8:29; 10:40; 2:23) -- Kowald and Guy. Das Schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird überbewertet ; Paintings (7:01; 19:12) -- Kowald and Altena. A + B [right arrow] C ; B [right arrow] C ; (A + B)² [right arrow] C ; C [right arrow] A + B (6:59; 3:41; 4:14; 10:49).
Genre
| 1. | Double bass music (Jazz) |
| 2. | Improvisation (Music) |
| 3. | Jazz--1971-1980 |
| 4. | Jazz--1981-1990 |
Performers
| 1. | Altena, Maarten, 1943- |
| 2. | Guy, Barry, 1947- |
| 3. | Kowald, Peter, 1944-2002 |
| 4. | Phillips, Barre, 1934- |