Flowers Around Cleveland
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Flowers Around Cleveland is an album by David Murray
released on the French Bleu Regard label. It was released in 1995 and features seven quartet performances by Murray with Bobby Few
, John Betsch
, and Jean Jacques Avenel.
David Murray (jazz musician)
David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
released on the French Bleu Regard label. It was released in 1995 and features seven quartet performances by Murray with Bobby Few
Bobby Few
Bobby Few is an American jazz pianist.Few was raised in Shaker Heights, a neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and studied classical piano. He knew Albert Ayler as a youth, and the pair studied jazz and played together in high school...
, John Betsch
John Betsch
John Betsch is an American jazz drummer.Betsch began on percussion at age nine, and attended Fisk University, Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After playing in organ trios, he released an album as a leader, Earth Blossom, in 1975...
, and Jean Jacques Avenel.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "This is one of Murray's records to seek out.".Track listing
- "Fantasy Rainbow" - 8:33
- "Few's Blues" (Few) - 8:06
- "The Desagregation of Our Children" - 10:36
- "Sorrow Song (For W.E.B. Dubois)" - 10:52
- "Dakar Darkness" - 6:35
- "When the Monarchs Come to Town" - 9:09
- "Flowers Around Cleveland" (Avenel, Betsch, Few, Murray) - 8:43
- All compositions by David Murray except as indicated
- Recorded May 16 & 17, 1995
Personnel
- David MurrayDavid Murray (jazz musician)David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
- tenor saxophone - Bobby FewBobby FewBobby Few is an American jazz pianist.Few was raised in Shaker Heights, a neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and studied classical piano. He knew Albert Ayler as a youth, and the pair studied jazz and played together in high school...
- piano - John BetschJohn BetschJohn Betsch is an American jazz drummer.Betsch began on percussion at age nine, and attended Fisk University, Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After playing in organ trios, he released an album as a leader, Earth Blossom, in 1975...
- drums - Jean Jacques Avenel - bass