Andrew Cyrille - Special People (1980)

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Artist:
Title: Special People
Year Of Release: 1980
Label: Soul Note
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 36:57
Total Size: 211 MB
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Tracklist:

1. A Girl Named Rainbow (10:00)
2. High Priest (07:42)
3. Fortified Nucleolus (05:08)
4. Baby Man (06:34)
5. Special People (07:00)

Personnel:

Andrew Cyrille - drums, percussion
Nick DiGeronimo - bass
Ted Daniel - trumpet
David S. Ware - tenor sax

Andrew Cyrille is among the most pre-eminent free jazz percussionists to emerge in the 1960s. Few vanguard drummers can play with his grace, authority, unflagging energy, and absolute power, tempered only by his constant sense of propriety. Cyrille is at his best in an utterly free context, as evidenced by his solo debut, 1969's What About?, and 1974's Dialogue of the Drums with Milford Graves. Cyrille spent much of the '60s with Walt Dickerson and the '70s with Cecil Taylor. He has released over 50 titles as a leader or co-leader, including 1981's Special People, 1988's Something in Return with Jimmy Lyons, and Galaxies with Russian pianist Vladimir Tarasov. In 1993 he began a long, widely celebrated association with pianist Borah Bergman on the album The Human Factor. In the 21st century, Cyrille participated in dozens of collaborative recordings, most notably with pianist Søren Kjærgaard and bassist Ben Street, including 2010's Open Opus. In 2011, he collaborated with Haitian Fascination on the seminal Route De Frères. After co-billed outings with Bill McHenry on 2014's Us Free: Fish Stories (that also included bassist Henry Grimes), the drummer released his ECM debut, The Declaration of Musical Independence, leading a quartet with Street, guitarist Bill Frisell and keyboardist Richard Teitelbaum. A trio effort titled Lebroba with Frisell and Wadada Leo Smith followed in 2018, and in 2021, Cyrille's quartet returned with The News. The following year, Cyrille, with trumpeter Enrico Rava and bassist William Parker, issued 2 Blues for Cecil on TUM.