''Music for People, Birds, Butterflies and Mosquitoes'' is an album by American jazz composer and arranger

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 ...

which was released on the Choice label in 1973.Jimmy Giuffre Catalog
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Reception

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states: "The music is moody, fairly spontaneous, and melodic, but often wandering and rather insubstantial... None of the songs clock in over 5:37, and although they form a sort of suite, the overall results are not too memorable".

Track listing

''All compositions by Jimmy Giuffre'' # "Mosquito Dance" - 5:37 # "Night Dance" - 4:11 # "Flute Song" - 2:37 # "Eternal Chant" - 2:58 # "The Bird" - 2:44 # "The Waiting" - 3:25 # "The Butterfly" - 2:26 # "The Chanting" - 4:42 # "Moonlight" - 3:39 # "Dervish" - 3:31 # "Phoenix" - 5:04 # "Feast Dance" - 3:23

Personnel

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 ...

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

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 flute The bass flute is a member of the flute family. It is in the key of C, pitched one octave below the concert flute. Despite its name, its playing range makes it the tenor member of the flute family. Because of the length of its tube (approximate ...

*Kiyoshi Tokunaga - bass *Randy Kaye -

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 ...

References

{{Authority control Jimmy Giuffre albums 1973 albums