Artist: Circle
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Instrumental
Other
Discography:
Vesiliirto
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Golem
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Forest
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Paris Concert (cd2)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 2
Paris Concert (cd1)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 4
Prospekt
Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Spirit Drummers
Year:
Tracks: 13
Empire
Year:
Tracks: 2
Andexelt
Year:
Tracks: 9
During their brusque time together (1970-1971), Circle was a virtual supergroup of '70s exempt jazz, with the talents of Chick Corea on pianoforte, Anthony Braxton on reeds and flute glass, Dave Holland on freshwater bass and cello, and Barry Altschul on drums. Circle came verboten of Corea and Holland's desire to do something less commercial than where they were gallery with Miles Davis in the late '60s. Altschul had some former van jazz see from acting with Paul Bley, among others, and the trey formed a threesome which Anthony Braxton soon joined. Braxton had latterly been qualification ends match by performing chess in New York, and belike was raddled into the contrive non only by the quartet's rapport, just peradventure besides by the possibleness of relatively more commercial achiever on the kind of labels that would want Corea's new feat. And so the avant-garde jazz foursome Circle was born, resulting in sixer releases -- some on ECM and Blue Note. Even though some of these recordings were interpreted from concert performances (including the best of the caboodle, Paris-Concert), this is still quite an end product for Circle's one year. They were an exciting, acute group whose sets included compositions by each of them, as well as some very hunky-dory grouping improvisations, long solo pieces, and the combinations in between. By 1971, Corea had distinct that he was more interested in the tolerant of thing that Davis was doing after all, and went on to shape his possess, more accessible, fusion chemical group Return to Forever. The other three continued in the loose vena, sometimes together, as on Holland's stellar League of the Birds with Sam Rivers, recorded a year after Circle called it quits, and in the Braxton Quartet for the next respective years.
