''Somewhere Else'' is a live album by the

Barry Altschul Barry Altschul (born January 6, 1943, in New York City) is a free jazz and hard bop drummer who first came to notice in the late 1960s for performing with pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea. Biography Altschul is of Russian Jewish heritage, ...

Trio, led by drummer Altschul, and featuring trombonist Ray Anderson and double bassist

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. It was recorded on June 2, 1979, at the 8th Moers International New Jazz Festival in

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, Germany, and was released on vinyl later that year by

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. This lineup of the Altschul trio would go on to record the studio album ''

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'' for the Sackville label the following year.

Reception

In a review for

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wrote: "The four lengthy originals... have their moments, but there are also meandering sections... Most of the sparks are provided by the virtuosic and eccentric Anderson; Helias has a strong bowed spot on the episodic 'Martin's Stew,' which is easily the strongest performance of the four." The authors of ''

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'' described the album as "a dialogue of the deaf," and commented: "Trios of this conformation are always difficult to modulate effectively. What happens here is that three players with strongly rhythmic conceptions of their own manage to cancel each other out."

Track listing

# "Somewhere Else" (Barry Altschul) – 13:30 # "Slickaphonic Shuffle" (Ray Anderson) – 9:38 # "Onea" (Mark Helias) – 6:38 # "Martin's Stew" (Barry Altschul) – 16:17

Personnel

– drums, cymbals, bells, gong, quica, waterphone, gongs, assorted percussion * Ray Anderson – trombone, kalimba, Brasilian whistles *

– double bass

References

{{Reflist 1979 live albums Barry Altschul live albums Moers Music live albums