You Can't Name Your Own Tune

by Barry Altschul

You Can't Name Your Own Tune cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Muse
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:57
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Drummer Barry Altschul leads an all-star avant-garde quintet through a set of highly complex, conceptually dense post-bop structures. The album features fierce, atonal improvisation and sophisticated rhythmic interplay, demanding significant technical prowess from its performers. It is celebrated as a major artistic statement in late-1970s progressive jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, acoustic, dissonant, improvisation, atonal, avant-garde, instrumental, experimental, percussive, progressive

Tracklist

  1. You Can't Name Your Own Tune (7:56)
  2. For Those Who Care (4:59)
  3. Natal Chart (Natel Chart) (3:47)
  4. Cmbeh (6:18)
  5. Hey Toots! (5:13)
  6. King Korn (4:42)

Credits

  • Dave Crawford - lacquer cut by
  • Dave Holland - bass, cello
  • Muhal Richard Abrams - piano, written-by
  • Sam Rivers - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
  • George Lewis - trombone
  • Carla Bley - written-by
  • Barry Altschul - Primary Artist, Drums, Percussion, Written-By, Gong, Waterphone

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