Basel 1980

Basel 1980
Live album by Woody Shaw
Publication (s)	2019
Label (s)	Elemental Music
Format (s)	LP, 2CD,
Genre (s)	Postbop , modal jazz
Title (number)	4/9
occupation	Trumpet , flugelhorn : Woody Shaw Tenor saxophone , soprano saxophone : Carter Jefferson (1-1 → 2-4) Piano : Larry Willis (1-1 → 2-4), Mulgrew Miller (2-5) Double bass : Stafford James Drums : Victor Lewis (1-1 → 2-4), Tony Reedus (2-5)
production	Woody Shaw III, Michael Cuscuna , Jordi Soley
chronology Tokyo '81 (2018) Basel 1980 Gary Bartz , Woody Shaw: 2MFs (Musical Friends) (2020)

Basel 1980 is a jazz album by trumpeter Woody Shaw . The recording was made in 1980 with a quintet at a concert in the foyer of the Stadttheater Basel on January 16, 1980. The recordings were released on May 10, 2019 on the reissue label Elemental Music.

background

Woody Shaw, accompanied by saxophonist Carter Jefferson , pianist Larry Willis , bassist Stafford James and drummer Victor Lewis , presented the recordings, which were released on the 75th birthday of the trumpeter who died in 1989 . The edition also contains previously unknown photographs and essays by producer Michael Cuscuna and Shaw's son Woody Shaw III. The 2-CD edition was supplemented by a track (“We'll Be Together Again”) from a concert by Shaw on June 20, 1981 in Lustenau , performed by a quartet made up of Shaw, Mulgrew Miller , Stafford James and Tony Reedus .

Track list

Theater Basel, in the foreground the Tinguely fountain

CD edition

• Woody Shaw Quintet: Basel 1980 (Elemental Music - 5990432)

CD 1

1. Invitation ( Bronislaw Kaper , Paul Francis Webster ) 18:45
2. Seventh Avenue (Victor Lewis) 1:09 pm
3. In Your Own Sweet Way ( Dave Brubeck ) 20:37
4. Stepping Stone (Joseph Bonner) 11:26

CD 2

1. Love Dance (Woody Shaw) 20:24
2. 'Round Midnight ( Thelonious Monk ) 12:49
3. Teotihuacan (Stafford James) 14:00
4. Theme for Maxine (Woody Shaw) 3:51
5. We'll Be Together Again ( Carl T. Fischer , Frankie Laine ) 10:44

LP edition

• Woody Shaw Quintet: Basel 1980 (Elemental Music - 5990532)

1. Love Dance 8:24 pm
2. 'Round Midnight 12:49
3. Teotihuacan 14:00
4. Theme for Maxine 3:51

reception

According to Nic Jones ( Jazz Journal ), this album creates the feeling that Shaw has matured to the point "that he knows exactly what can be achieved without pyrotechnics ". "In Your Own Sweet Way" is an aptly titled example of this and also underlines that this formation was a hardbop / postbop unit, which was occupied by three different main soloists. The saxophonist Carter Jefferson, as he proves in "Stepping Stone", is "an unjustifiably neglected figure", which proved to be a misfortune in the Joe Henderson era . This double CD goes wonderfully with the two albums that were recorded with a Woody Shaw quintet for Columbia in the Village Vanguard in New York, and has an excellent bonus track with “We'll Together Again”. Although only Shaw, Carter Jefferson and Victor Lewis are present in all four titles, "the personnel changes do not disturb the consummate craftsmanship, which fortunately is loosened up by the commitment to more meaningful qualities."

Web links

• Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Retrieved September 10, 2019.
• Basel 1980 with Elemental Music

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stylistic classification according to discogs
2. ↑ Basel 1980 (Do-CD) at Discogs
3. ↑ Basel 1980 (LP) at Discogs
4. ↑ Nic Jones: Woody Shaw Quintet: Basel 1980. June 26, 2019, accessed on September 7, 2019 (English).