"THE FRANCIS DOCUMENTS I & II"
POCO CLARINET TRIO Simon Spencer Bb clarinet; Mindy Lee alto clarinet; Chris Cundy bass clarinet & sop. sax.
Recorded in Francis Close Hall Chapel, Cheltenham, England.October and December 1999 by Chris Trent. SLAMCD 245 Bar code 5 028386 024521
TRACKS:
1. threes zeroes 9m 16s
2. petrified coin 11 47
3. settled spin9 47
4. signal dead 8 24
5. deep rejections 7 03
6. pitch wipe9 15
Even more inaccessible than the Parker/Haslam/Edwards album, this disc is not the light, woody, harmonically intricate disc one would expect. I don't know why I expected that, maybe because of the "official" and "classical" looking cover. I shan't be fooled again. This disc is essentially three reed players "eating it up" with really complicated conversations and emotions that need to be really tuned in to, in order for one to understand. I don't have the time to listen too closely right now, but maybe someday, after I get Taylor's Unit Structures to click. I don't mean the previous sentence to mean that I'm "too busy" to listen. I'm not. I just know that "getting" this disc is going to take some tremendous time. Trying is half the fun. I wonder how many spins this one will take? Maybe a lifetime. Listening now, I find some passages that have some incredible moods. I'll focus on them first. Beyond Coltrane 2002 by Fred Barrett
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