Expansion (album)

Expansion
Expansion
Live album by Dave Burrell
Released	June 8, 2004
Recorded	December 2003
Genre	Avant-garde jazz
Label	High Two Records
Producer	Dave Burrell
Dave Burrell chronology

Expansion is a live album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell. It was recorded during a number of concerts in December 2003 and was released on June 8, 2004 by High Two.

The group that Burrell toured with was referred to as the Full-Blown Trio and included Burrell, Andrew Cyrille (drums) and William Parker (bass).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
PGJ	^[2]

AllMusic calls the album "a lovely record ... by a trio versed in understatement and nuance." Reviewer Thom Jurek in particular comments on Burrell's playing by saying that his "fills between the lyric lines are humorous, warm, and dazzling."^[1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz also mention that the three men "gel perfectly" and they provide him with the most flattering context for years."^[2]

Track listing

All tracks by Dave Burrell except where noted.

"Expansion" – 4:10
"Double Heartbeat" – 8:14
"Cryin' Out Loud" – 7:43
"They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin) – 6:52
"About Face" – 5:40
"In the Balance" – 4:38
"Coup d'État" – 3:14

Personnel

Dave Burrell – piano
William Parker – bass, kora
Andrew Cyrille – drums
Shawn Brackbill – session photographer
Flam – mastering
John Rosenberg – engineer

References

^ ^a ^b Thom Jurek. "Expansion". Retrieved 2007-02-02.
^ ^a ^b The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook, Brian Morton, et al. pg 190.

[AMG-1] Thom Jurek. "Expansion". Retrieved 2007-02-02.

[PGJ-2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook, Brian Morton, et al. pg 190.

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v t e Dave Burrell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	High Won-High Two (1968) Echo (1969) La Vie de Bohème (released 1969) After Love (1970) In: Sanity (The 360 Degree Music Experience, 1976) Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk (1978) Lush Life (1978) Windward Passages (hatART, 1979) Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981 (1981) The Jelly Roll Joys (1990) Recital (and Tyrone Brown, 2000) Expansion (2003) Consequences (2005) Margy Pargy (2005) Momentum (2005)
With David Murray	Hope Scope (1987) Ballads (1988) Deep River (1988) Lovers (1988) Lucky Four (1988) Spirituals (1988) Tenors (1988) Daybreak (Burrell, 1989) Remembrances (1990) Death of a Sideman (1991) In Concert (1991) Picasso (1992) Brother to Brother (1993)
With Archie Shepp	For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Body and Soul (1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) U-Jaama (Unite) (1975) Lover Man (1988)
With others	Three for Shepp (Marion Brown, 1966) I Plan to Stay a Believer (William Parker, 2001–08) Essence of Ellington (William Parker, 2012) Epitome (Odean Pope, 1993) Black Woman (Sonny Sharrock, 1969)