Ode

by The London Jazz Composers Orchestra

Ode cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1972
  • Label: Incus
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:26:11
  • Community rating: 4.24/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Barry Guy's colossal avant-garde big band debuts with this incredibly complex, suite-like composition. Blurring the lines between rigorous European contemporary classical music and explosive free improvisation, the massive ensemble executes terrifyingly dense walls of dissonance that cemented them as a foundational pillar of the British avant-garde.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, improvisation, instrumental, avant-garde, orchestral, technical

Tracklist

  1. The End (Ode Part I) (9:01)
  2. Memory Of The Future (Ode Part II) (8:51)
  3. Exact Sensibility (Ode Part III) (14:21)
  4. According To The Laws Of Chance (Ode Part V) (12:08)
  5. Presence Of Mind (Ode Part VI) (18:05)
  6. Indefinite Divisibility (Ode Part IV) (23:45)

Credits

  • Barry Guy - primary artist, bass
  • London Jazz Composers Orchestra - primary artist
  • Bernie Living - alto saxophone
  • Mike Osborne - alto saxophone
  • Trevor Watts - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Karl Jenkins - baritone saxophone, oboe
  • Chris Laurence - bass
  • Jeff Clyne - bass

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