Al Neil Trio - Retrospective: 1965-1968 FLAC

• Performer: Al Neil Trio
• Title: Retrospective: 1965-1968
• Genre: Jazz
• Country: Canada
• Date of release: 01 Apr 2002
• FLAC size 2879 mb
• MP3 size: 2077 mb
• Record From 2 × CD

Al Neil Trio Canada 2002

Al Neil - piano, zither, vocals, miscellaneuous instruments; Richard Anstey - accoustic bass, soprano sax, vocals, toy instruments;
Gregg Simpson - drums, persussion, toy instruments, sound collages

"Canadian pianist Al Neil may be little known except for a circle of old Vancouver enthusiasts, but it makes this two-CD RETROSPECTIVE all the more fascinating to study. As a writer and poet, he imported his spontaneous cut-up technique into the music, which added to drummer Gregg Simpson's tape loop contraption (the "vortexerola"), and bassist Richard Anstey's uncanny vocalizations produced some very weird real-time sound collages. Neil's style combines elements of Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Taylor (even though
he wasn't aware of it); he has power, over-spilling emotions, and a certain form of madness that actually pushes the music further
over the edge than what Taylor was doing at the time. It takes you back to the days when experimental music meant taking risks.

A definitive document."
-François Couture -All Music Guide

• Label Code: 121 2001

• Record Company – Blue Minor Records