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Lenox Avenue Breakdown by Chico Freeman (CD, Oct-1998, Koch Jazz) 
Lenox Avenue Breakdown by Chico Freeman (CD, Oct-1998, Koch Jazz)

 
Lenox Avenue Breakdown by Chico Freeman (CD, Oct-1998, Koch Jazz)

Release Date: Oct 1998
Format: CD
Record Label: Koch Jazz
Genre: Alto Sax, Jazz Instrument
UPC: 099923787129
Product ID: EPID3300699
Description: Personnel: Arthur Blythe (alto saxophone); Bob Stewart (tuba); James Newton (flute); James "Blood" Ulmer (guitar); Cecil McBee (bass); Jack DeJohnette (drums); Guillermo Franco (percussion). Producer: Bob Thiele. Reissue producer: Donald...
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Track Listing
1. Down San Diego Way
2. Lenox Avenue Breakdown
3. Slidin' Through
4. Odessa

Details
Contributing Artists:Bob Stewart, Cecil McBee, Jack DeJohnette, James "Blood" Ulmer, James Blood Ulmer, James Newton
Distributor:E1 Distribution (USA)
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Arthur Blythe (alto saxophone); Bob Stewart (tuba); James Newton (flute); James "Blood" Ulmer (guitar); Cecil McBee (bass); Jack DeJohnette (drums); Guillermo Franco (percussion).
Producer: Bob Thiele.
Reissue producer: Donald Elfman.
Recorded at Mediasound Studios, New York, New York. Originally released on Columbia (35638). Includes liner notes by Stanley Crouch.
In addition to having excellent cover art (an illustrated cityscape in which a giant saxophone--complete with windows, a doorway, and stoop--takes its place among the neighboring buildings), LENOX AVENUE BREAKDOWN is also a dynamic, unjustly overlooked jazz album. Prodigiously talented as an instrumentalist and composer, alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 1970s and '80s, and LENOX AVENUE BREAKDOWN, his Columbia Records debut, proves it.
Blythe's ability to marry the best of the genre's traditions (he is equally versed in swing, post-bop, and romantic styles) with his avant-garde leanings is evident here. "Odessa," for example, a modal exploration, begins melodically, yet pushes further into free-jazz territory as the tune progresses. The angular bop of the title track is offset by adventurous soloing and unique instrumentation (flute and tuba add to the sonic palette here, along with guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer and drummer Jack DeJohnette). Blythe also knows how to keep things groovy, as the Latin-infused "Down San Diego Way" shows, with its interlocking webs of percussion. This is challenging, engaging jazz of the first order that still sounds fresh decades after its release.

Editorial Reviews
...instrumentation and programming are characteristically challenging....Blythe's compositions are in essence simple vamps, but make for compelling improvisational structures....Simply maginificent.
The Wire (05/01/1999)

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