''The Missing Link'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist
Fred Anderson, recorded in 1979 but not issued until 1984 by
Nessa Records
Nessa Records is an American jazz record label founded in Chicago in 1967 by producer Chuck Nessa.
After working at Delmark Records for a year, Nessa started the label at the urging of Roscoe Mitchell and Lester Bowie. The first album was releas ...
.
Background
Originally scheduled as an Anderson's working quartet recording, trumpeter Billy Brimfield was in California unable to make the session, and Anderson decided to go ahead with the date, adding percussionist
Adam Rudolph at
Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist.
By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and Afr ...
's suggestion. Larry Hayrod was then a newcomer to the quartet, replacing bassist Steven Palmore, who had left for New York after a trip to Europe with one of Anderson's ensembles.
[''The Missing Link'' original liner notes by Neil Tesser]
[''The Milwaukee Tapes vol. 1'' original liner notes by John Corbett]
The CD reissue adds a bonus track, Drake's composition "Tabla Peace".
Reception
In his review for
AllMusic, Thom Jurek states that "Anderson is pushing the blues; however elongated and angular, they are recognizable as such and are the spiritual conscience of all the music he plays here."
''
The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' says that "if he is a missing link, what he's bridging is the gap between the spare, blues-soaked sound of early Ornette and the clean-sweep radicalism of
AACM."
Track listing
:''All compositions by Fred Anderson except as indicated''
# "Twilight" - 16:37
# "A Ballad for Rita" - 13:52
# "The Bull" - 17:11
Bonus track on CD
#
"Tabla Peace" (Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist.
By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and Afr ...
)- 14:48
Personnel
* Fred Anderson - tenor sax
*Larry Hayrod - bass
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*Hamid Drake
Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist.
By the close of the 1990s, Hamid Drake was widely regarded as one of the best percussionists in jazz and improvised music. Incorporating Afro-Cuban, Indian, and Afr ...
- drums
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* Adam Rudolph - percussion
References
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1984 albums
Fred Anderson (musician) albums
Nessa Records albums