Free Fall

by Jimmy Giuffre

Free Fall cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1963
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 56:55
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An incredibly bold anomaly of its era, 'Free Fall' pushes jazz into hushed, minimalistic abstraction. Jimmy Giuffre's sparse, atonal chamber-jazz improvisations challenged conventional boundaries and anticipated European free improvisation by decades.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, minimalistic, avant-garde, atonal, technical

Tracklist

  1. Propulsion (3:06)
  2. Threewe (4:11)
  3. Ornothoids (2:42)
  4. Dichotomy (3:56)
  5. Man Alone (2:17)
  6. Spasmodic (3:26)
  7. Yggdrasill (2:32)
  8. Divided Man (1:53)
  9. Primordial Call (2:16)
  10. The Five Ways (10:19)
  11. Present Notion (3:41)
  12. Motion Suspended (3:15)
  13. Future Plans (3:55)
  14. Past Mistakes (2:05)
  15. Time Will Tell (3:49)
  16. Let's See (3:25)

Credits

  • Jimmy Giuffre - primary artist, clarinet, written-by, liner notes
  • Juanita Odjenar Giuffre - cover [painting]
  • Steve Swallow - double bass
  • Henry Parker - photography by
  • Paul Bley - piano
  • Teo Macero - producer

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