''Live at Macalester College'' is a live album by saxophonist/flautist

Byard Lancaster Byard Lancaster (August 6, 1942 – August 23, 2012) was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist and flutist. Cook, Richard. (2005). ''Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia.'' New York: Penguin Books. Allen, Clifford. (2005). ''Byard Lancaster: From A Lo ...

and drummer J. R. Mitchell originally released in 1972 on the Dogtown label and rereleased in 2008 on CD by Porter Records.Porter records album entry
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Reception

The

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review by Thom Jurek stated "This is an incredible document of post-Coltrane free jazz". On

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, Hrayr Attarian noted "Despite the virtuosic musical ideas flowing out of everyone's instrument the recording itself fails to stand as a single multifaceted unit, but instead has the feel of a hodge-podge of different sounds, ideas and styles".Attarian, H
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Track listing

All compositions by Byard Lancaster # "1324" – 16:29 # "Last Summer" – 3:25 # "War World" – 6:35 # "Live at Macalester" – 10:38 # "World in Me" – 9:01 Additional track on CD reissue # "Thought" – 15:01 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

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soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sop ...

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

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 th ...

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...

, trumpet * J. R. Mitchell – percussion *Sid Simmons – piano (tracks 2–4) *Lance Gunderson – guitar (track 6) *Calvin Hill – bass (tracks 1, 5 & 6) * Jerome Hunter (tracks 2–4), Paul Morrison (track 1) – electric bass *Lester Lumley –

congas The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest) ...

, percussion (track 1)

References

{{reflist 1972 live albums Byard Lancaster albums J. R. Mitchell albums Porter Records live albums