80° Below '82

by Air

Type: Album
Released: 1982
Label: Antilles
Country: United States
Length: 35:18
Community rating: 3.94/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Henry Threadgill, Fred Hopkins

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The innovative free jazz trio of Henry Threadgill, Fred Hopkins, and Steve McCall delivered this vibrant set emphasizing intense, telepathic rhythmic interplay. Blending traditional ragtime and blues forms with highly abstract, avant-garde improvisations, the session captures the group's signature structural fluidity. It stands as a brilliant testament to their unparalleled chemistry and compositional daring.

Genres

Avant-Garde Jazz

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, rhythmic

Tracklist

Chicago Breakdown
The Traveller (1:46)
80° Below '82
Do Tell (2:38)

Credits

AIR - primary artist
Henry Threadgill - alto saxophone
Fred Hopkins - bass
Steve McCall - drums [trap]