''Visitation Rites'' is a live album by saxophonist
Tim Berne
Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954) is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner. His primary instruments are the alto and baritone saxophones.
Biography
Berne was born in Syracuse, New York, United States. He has said that ...
's Paraphrase which was recorded in Germany in 1996 and released on Berne's
Screwgun
Screwgun Records is a jazz record label founded by saxophonist Tim Berne in 1996. Most releases on the label have been by Berne, though some have been by Berne's associates and bandmates. Steve Byram has designed and illustrated the artwork for ma ...
label.
Reception
The
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...
review awarded the album 4 stars.
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accessed October 15, 2014 In Jazziz, Steve Dollar wrote "The music burns but it also makes sense. Juggling alto and baritone saxophones, Berne zooms between incandescent bits of overblowing and tenderly articulated phrases, upper-register soul crys and thunderclap bursts of notes, while sustaining both formidable drive and cliche-free logic".
[Dollar, S., Jazziz, March 1998, Volume 15 No. 3, p.78]
Track listing
# "Poetic License" (Tom Rainey) – 19:59
# "Piano Justice" (Tim Berne) – 30:41
# "I Can't Wait 'Till Tomorrow" (Drew Gress) – 23:10
Personnel
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Tim Berne
Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954) is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner. His primary instruments are the alto and baritone saxophones.
Biography
Berne was born in Syracuse, New York, United States. He has said that ...
– alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
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Drew Gress
Drew Gress (born November 20, 1959) is an American jazz double-bassist and composer born in Trenton, New Jersey and raised in the Philadelphia area.
Biography
Gress studied at Towson State University and Manhattan School of Music. In the late 1 ...
– bass
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Tom Rainey
Tom Rainey (born 1957) is an American jazz drummer.
Career
After attending Berklee College of Music he moved to New York in 1979. He has played with Tim Berne, Nels Cline, Drew Gress, Mark Helias, Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby, Simon Nabatov, T ...
– drums
References
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1997 live albums
Tim Berne live albums
Screwgun Records live albums