''Orgasm'' is an album by jazz hornist

Alan Shorter Alan Shorter (May 29, 1932 – April 5, 1988) was a free jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, and the older brother of composer and saxophone player Wayne Shorter. Biography Shorter was born in the Ironbound District in Newark, New Jersey. He sta ...

recorded in 1968 and released on the

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label. It was also released under the title ''Parabolic'' during the same year in the UK.

Reception

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rated the album 4½ stars and its review by Scott Yanow states, "Shorter, although not a virtuoso, comes up with consistently inventive ideas. The style is sometimes slightly reminiscent 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 ...

(partly due to the presence of Haden), but Shorter had apparently not heard Ornette's band before recording this music. Well worth several listens". David Grundy of ''Point of Departure'' called the album Shorter's "definitive statement" of the period, and noted that "the record has an utterly distinctive atmosphere... 'sinister' is the operative word, an atmosphere drawing, perhaps, from Alan's love of the ambiguous spaces of horror and science-fiction movies – spaces of waiting, of threat, of tension and anticipation, or of sorrow."

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wrote: "It is a music meant to shake, to stir, to arouse. To call for a 'new dispensation,' perhaps, of the whole order of things." He praised the "total sound and conception and burning energy" of the musicians, and remarked: "There is a freshness to this music that makes you listen... till the last eerie passage."

Track listing

''All compositions by Alan Shorter'' # "Parabola"- 13:07 # "Joseph" - 3:07 # "Straits of Blagellan" - 7:27 # "Rapids" - 9:30 # "Outeroids"- 4:15 # "Orgasm" - 11:20

Personnel

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

Gato Barbieri Leandro "Gato" Barbieri (November 28, 1932 – April 2, 2016) was an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and is known for his Latin jazz recordings of the 1970s. His nickname, Gato, is Spa ...

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 ...

Charlie Haden Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader, composer and educator whose career spanned more than 50 years. In the late 1950s, he was an original member of the ground-breaking ...

(tracks 1 & 6) Reggie Johnson (tracks 3 & 4) -

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 ...

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(tracks 1 & 6),

Rashied Ali Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson (July 1, 1933 – August 12, 2009) was an American free jazz and avant-garde drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life. Biography Early life Patterson was born and ...

(tracks 2-5) -

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 ...

References

{{Authority control 1969 albums Alan Shorter albums Verve Records albums Albums produced by Esmond Edwards