''By Any Means Necessary'' is the third album by saxophonist
Gary Thomas recorded in 1989 and released on the
JMT label.
[Shimada, T.]
JMT label discography
accessed November 14, 2014
Reception
The
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...
review by Scott Yanow states, "The music features dense ensembles, simultaneous improvisations, eccentric funk rhythms, and rhythmic but very dissonant horn solos that have a logic of their own. One can think of this noisy date as being an updated extension of
Ornette Coleman
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album '' Free Jazz: A Colle ...
's Prime Time and is recommended to open-minded listeners who think that nothing new has been played in jazz since the mid-'70s."
[Yanow, S.]
Allmusic Review
accessed November 17, 2014
Track listing
''All compositions by Gary Thomas except as indicated''
# "By Any Means Necessary" - 7:44
# "Continuum" - 6:52
# "You're Under Arrest" (John Scofield) - 7:17
# "Potential Hazard" - 6:23
# "To the Vanishing Point" - 4:37
# "Screen Gem" - 5:02
# "Janala" (Geri Allen, Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Naná Vasconcelos) - 2:39
# "At Risk" - 7:12
# "Out of Harm's Way" - 6:12
Personnel
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Gary Thomas - tenor saxophone, flute synthesizer
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Greg Osby
Greg Osby (born August 3, 1960) is an American saxophonist and composer.
Biography
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Osby studied at Howard University, then at the Berklee College of Music. He moved to New York City in 1982, where he played with Jaki ...
- alto saxophone, synthesizer (tracks 7 & 9)
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Mick Goodrick
Mick Goodrick (June 9, 1945 – November 16, 2022) was an American jazz guitarist who spent most of his career as a teacher. In the early 1970s, he worked with Gary Burton and Pat Metheny.
Biography
An Elvis fan, Goodrick began studying guitar ...
(tracks 6 & 8),
John Scofield
John Scofield (born December 26, 1951), sometimes referred to as "Sco", is an American guitarist and composer whose music over a long career has blended jazz, jazz fusion, funk, blues, soul and rock. He first came to mainstream attention in the ...
(tracks 1, 3 & 8) - guitar
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Geri Allen
Geri Antoinette Allen (June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. In addition to her career as a performer and bandleader, Allen was also an associate professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh ...
, (tracks 4, 5 & 7), Tim Murphy (tracks 1–6, 8 & 9) - piano, synthesizer
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Anthony Cox - bass (tracks 1–6, 8 & 9)
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Dennis Chambers
Dennis Milton Chambers (born May 9, 1959) is an American drummer. He was inducted into the ''Modern Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 2001.
Early life
Chambers was born on May 9, 1959. He began drumming at the age of four years, and was gigging in Bal ...
- drums (tracks 1–6, 8 & 9)
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Naná Vasconcelos
Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician wi ...
- percussion (tracks 1, 2, 4-6 & 8)
References
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1989 albums
Gary Thomas (musician) albums
JMT Records albums
Winter & Winter Records albums