Real Tchicai

by John Tchicai Trio

Real Tchicai cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: SteepleChase
  • Country: Denmark
  • Length: 45:59
  • Community rating: 3.58/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded in Denmark, 'Real Tchicai' captures the Danish-Congolese saxophonist leading an agile, highly intuitive trio format. The sessions highlight John Tchicai's distinctively fluid and melodic approach to free jazz, prioritizing space and polyphonic interplay over sheer volume. Accompanied by Pierre D酶rge on guitar, the recording presents a mature, conversational evolution of the European avant-garde.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, polyphonic, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Graceful Visitor (5:28)
  2. Silent Danish Girl (2:47)
  3. Moksha Point (4:47)
  4. Monk's Mood (3:42)
  5. Bambla Jolifanti (6:07)
  6. One Way Ticket (5:19)
  7. Mirjam's Dadadance (3:58)
  8. Blue Barrier (5:41)
  9. Nothing Doing in Krakow (8:10)

Credits

  • John Tchicai Trio - primary artist
  • Niels-Henning 脴rsted Pedersen - primary artist, bass
  • Pierre D酶rge - primary artist, guitar, composed by
  • John Tchicai - alto saxophone, composed by
  • Thelonious Monk - composed by

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