''IAI Festival'' (full title ''IAI Festival/Great American Music Hall/San Francisco'') is a live album by multi-instrumentalist

Jimmy Giuffre James Peter Giuffre (, ; April 26, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating f ...

, saxophonist Lee Konitz, guitarist

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and pianist

Paul Bley Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and ...

recorded in 1978 which was the final release on Bley's own

Improvising Artists Improvising Artists Inc. known as IAI is a production company created by jazz pianist, Paul Bley Paul Bley, CM (November 10, 1932 – January 3, 2016) was a jazz pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well ...

label.Jimmy Giuffre Catalog
accessed July 8, 2015

Reception

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awarded the album 4 stars noting it is "just 37 minutes of music, but it is definitely worth hearing".

Track listing

# "Blues in the Closet" (

Oscar Pettiford Oscar Pettiford (September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960) was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer. He was one of the earliest musicians to work in the bebop idiom. Biography Pettiford was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United ...

) - 5:12 # "The Sad Time" (Jimmy Giuffre, Lee Konitz) - 2:34 # "Spanish Flames" (Giuffre, Bill Connors) - 11:26 # "Enter, Ivory" (Giuffre, Paul Bley) - 11:07 # "From Then to Then" (Giuffre, Konitz) - 5:44

Personnel

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tenor saxophone 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 ...

(tracks 1 & 5), bass flute (track 2), clarinet (track 3), soprano saxophone (track 4), flute (track 4) * Lee Konitz – alto saxophone (tracks 1, 2 & 5) *

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

(track 3) *

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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 keybo ...

(track 4)

References

{{Authority control 1978 albums Jimmy Giuffre live albums Lee Konitz live albums Improvising Artists Records live albums