''Fred Chicago Chamber Music'' is a double album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson recorded in 1996 and released on the Chicago-based Southport label. The first disc matches him in a trio with bassist

Tatsu Aoki (born September 19, 1957) is a multi-instrumentalist trained in traditional Japanese music (ie: taiko and shamisen), educator and experimental filmmaker. In his career as Chicago's Jazz and creative improvisor, he is mostly known as a long-standi ...

and drummer Afifi Phillard, while the second is composed of Anderson/Aoki duets with Southport co-owner Bradley Parker-Sparrow joining in on piano for two tracks.

Reception

In his review for

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, Scott Yanow states "All of the numbers are group improvisations, but the results are far from random or chaotic. Anderson is not afraid to embrace a melody, or to play quite tonally and use repetition, space and rhythmic ideas." ''

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'' notes that "Fred sometimes overplays to cover for the absence of a chordal instrument, he doesn't always seem entirely secure with his drummer, a relative unknown, and tries to pack the metre." The ''

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'' review by Willard Jenkins states "Befitting Anderson's spontaneous expressions, the pieces here are credited to the collective whole. As for the state of the tenor, Fred Anderson is an original who is not to be missed.."Jenkins, Willard
''Fred Chicago Chamber Music'' review
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Track listing

''Disc One'' :''All compositions by Anderson / Aoki / Philliard'' # "Fred's Blues" - 11:53 # "Grasshopper Greens" - 6:24 # "Indiana" - 16:51 # "Grizzle" - 20:44 # "Afro-Asia" - 14:37 ''Disc Two'' :''All compositions by Anderson / Aoki / Sparrow'' # "Twice as Good" - 6:41 # "Reward" - 9:26 # "Instantaneous Hot Water Heater" - 7:17 # "Sand" - 6:15 # "Bi-Pack" - 6:13 # "Rusty Swing" - 6:12 # "Ring: Duet Version" - 7:05 # "North Avenue" - 8:22 # "Steady Things Are..." - 6:21 # "Ice Bucket" - 2:41

Personnel

* Fred Anderson -

tenor sax The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

*Afifi Phillard -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

on disc one *Bradley Parker-Sparrow -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

on disc two #8, #10

References

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