Airto Moreira Free LP 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl CTI Speakers Corner Gatefold Pallas Germany 2016 EU

Title: Free
Catalog Number: CTI 6020
Label: CTI
Reissued by: Speakers Corner
Barcode: 4260019715135
Original release year: 1972
Reissue year: 2016
Number of discs: 1
Revolutions per minute: 33⅓ rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 180gr
Total Item Weight: 404gr
Pressing country: Germany
For Market Release in: EU
Added to catalog on: October 9, 2016
Note: Not eligible for any further discounts
Vinyl Gourmet Club: No
For his first big project with the promising title 'Free', the drummer and percussionist Airto Moreira gathered together several innovative jazz musicians such as Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett. Following Mahavishnu’s electrifying, magical sound, the demonic hubble-bubble of 'Bitches Brew', and also Santana’s lengthy improvised Latin raves, drumming was taken to new heights.
- 100% Pure Analog Mastering
- Audiophile 180 Grams Virgin Vinyl
- Pressed at Pallas Germany
- Gatefold Cover
At a time when mainstream music was being amalgamated with intellectual, experiment sounds, harmonies and rhythms to create underground fusion, astute readers of the DownBeat magazine observed in 1972 that drummers were creating their own category: Percussion.
Following Mahavishnu’s electrifying, magical sound, the demonic hubble-bubble of "Bitches Brew", and also Santana’s lengthy improvised Latin raves, drumming was taken to new heights.
For his first big project with the noncommittal yet promising title "Free", the drummer and percussionist Airto Moreira gathered together several innovative jazz musicians - first and foremost Chick Corea. Chick steps into the limelight in "Return To Forever", with its mystical, genial introductory melody, which plants itself deep down in the convolutions of the brain, rather like a siren’s fusion song.
Moreira is totally concentrated on his own thing in "Free", an awesome improvisation with innumerable rhythms and both brilliant and subdued sound-colouring whereby time is tautened and then stretched again and again. Alongside this closely-knit performance we find intense pieces such as "Flora’s Song", a light and airy Latin number ("Lucky Southern"), and a bebop Brasilian mood ("Creek"). This is music created by free thinkers who are masters of their craft.
Recording: April & May 1972 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA
Production: Creed Taylor
Musicians:
Airto Moreira, percussion, flute
Flora Purim, vocals
Joe Farrell, soprano saxophone
Garnett Brown, trombone
Alan Rubin, trumpet, flugelhorn
Hubert Laws, flute
George Benson, guitar
Keith Jarrett, piano
Chick Corea, electric piano
Ron Carter, bass
Stanley Clarke, bass
Track Listing:
Side A
1. Return to Forever
2. Flora's Song
Side B
1. Free
2. Lucky Southern
3. Creek (Arroio)
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