Friends > Marc Cohen, John Abercrombie, Clint Houston, Jeff Williams
Friends > Marc Cohen, John Abercrombie, Clint Houston, Jeff Williams
Produced by Marc Cohen & Fred Seibert
[Note: Marc Cohen now performs on piano as Marc Copeland]
Original LP. Click the titles to play.
1. 5/8 Tune †
2. Black Vibrations *
3. Nursery Rhyme
4. Loose Tune ††
…:::UPDATE, Feb 08: These MP3s are CD quality, 320kpbs:::…
Marc Cohen: electric alto sax, ††add tenor sax
Jeff Williams: drums
Clint Houston: fretted bass, †acoustic bass
John Abercrombie: 6 string guitar, *12 string guitar, ††no guitar
Click here for covers, photographs, and other printed ephemera.
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Friends
Oblivion Records
OD-3 (1973)
Click here for covers, photographs, and other printed ephemera.
CREDITS, from the original LP cover:
Recorded December 1972, by successful exploitation of Columbia University’s WKCR. To everyone who has ever been there, thanks folks.
Produced by Marc Cohen and Fred Seibert
Engineering: Fred Seibert
Brains behind the engineering: Don Zimmerman
Microphones behind the brains: Marc Seiden
Pal: David Reitman
Graphics: the Oblivionettes co-starring Sue DeLaney
Photography: Trebor Trepla, Fred Seibert, and Robert Alpert (Mark Focus Jr.)
Advice: Don Grolnick, Michael Altshuler, and Lisa Lenovitz
This record was made possible with the assistance of the Dick Pennington Electric Saxophone Foundation. Tubby wisdom given by Tom Pomposello.
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LINER NOTES, from the original LP cover:
Marc Cohen is from Philadelphia home of all good saxophonists. He has played with Chico Hamilton and was with Dreams for a short time. His alto saxophone is modified by an octave divider, two wah-wah pedals, a fuzz-tone, and a tape echo box. His tenor sax is quite ordinary.
Clint Houston has been the bassist for numerous groups including those of Roy Ayers, Woody Shaw, Herbie Mann, Sonny Greenwich, Charles Tolliver, and Art Blakey (whew) and is now playing with Jack DeJohnette’s new group.
Jeff Williams comes from (now don’t all swoon girls) Oberlin, Ohio. He played for a time with Stan Getz and is currently the drummer with tenor saxophonist Dave Liebman.
John Abercrombie has played and recorded with Dreams, Chico Hamilton, Barry Miles, Gil Evans and is along with Clint in Jack DeJohnette’s band. On side one his guitar sounds from the left channel. He is on the right channel for Nursery Rhyme and on Loose Tune he isn’t.
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About the cover artist: By Peter Frank
Sam Steinberg is the unofficial artist-in-residence at Columbia University and the Brox’s contribution to the Art Brut quasi-movement of Jean Dubuffet. The 70 year old former ice cream vendor (he still sells candy bars) work prolifically in magic-marker-on-cardboard, with occasional forays into magic-marker-on-cloth, and is popular with the Columbia community for his boids, snakes, moimaids and low prices. His sister Pauline colors them in.
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I’m posting many of my out-of-print record productions from the 1970s. Travis Pomposello and I are the owners of these master recordings.
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On January 7th, 2008 at 12:00 am
this is my favorite coffee cup to use at work. now I have the music to go along with it. thanks for posting fred.
-jx
On January 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 am
hi, i couldn’t get track 4 to work, but i am very grateful for this post in either case, it’s a very sought after album for me, thank you!!, Larry at LJM65@aol.com
On March 2nd, 2008 at 12:00 am
I was very curious about this. I had read about this being rated very highly among fussion efforts. In his eulogy to Michael Brecker Marc Copland wrote about this and his (Copland’s)sax-playing days and how he kept hearing things that couldn’t be played on the instrument. So his change to piano. I wanted to hear him on sax to see what was going on ( he is no slouch on alto). You have provided me with the opportunity. Many thanks.
On January 17th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
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