Ed Jackson: Wake Up Call, by Ed Jackson

Ed Jackson: Wake Up Call

by Ed Jackson

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1.	Played Twice 06:08	buy track
2.	Not for Granted 10:44	buy track
3.	To Have or To Be 03:45	buy track
4.	Under The Gun 09:01	buy track
5.	Hungry Edward 11:23	buy track
6.	Have You Met Miss Jones? 07:42	buy track
7.	Wake-up Call 13:08	buy track
8.	Boots and Fur 01:56	buy track
9.	One for Bud 06:22	buy track

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Even Ed Jackson’s fine work with the cooperative 29th Street Saxophone Quartet may leave you unprepared for the richness of this disc, his debut as (sole) leader. Life is never reducible to one operating principle; it's rarely simple or symmetrical, yet it follows its own subtle logic from one phase to the next. The music on Wake-Up Call has the same sort of organic intricacy and grace.

You have to be very sure of yourself to record an album with four pieces that run nine minutes or longer, one of which, the title track, is an airplay-resistant 13 minutes long as well as being structurally complex. It's not that the individual parts of these compositions are forbidding—there's lots of melodic, swinging improvising and ensemble interaction over the course of this disc. But when you contemplate the big picture, Jackson's daring becomes apparent. Even when he's working with a standard tune, he chooses from an array of possibilities and sidesteps the ordinary.

credits

released January 1, 1994

Ed Jackson, alto, tenor sax; Rich Rothenberg, tenor sax; James Zollar, trumpet; Clark Gayton, trombone; John Stetch, piano; Dave Jackson, bass; Steve Johns, drums; Jamie Baum, flute.

This title was part of the CounterCurrents series, with cover design by Steve Byram.

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Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., which records under the label New World Records, was founded in 1975.

We are dedicated to the documentation of American music that is largely ignored by the commercial recording companies.