The Navigator (Andrew Cyrille album)

The Navigator
The Navigator
Studio album by Andrew Cyrille
Released	1982
Recorded	September 21 & 22, 1982
Genre	Jazz
Length	44:39
Label	Soul Note
Producer	Giovanni Bonandrini
Andrew Cyrille chronology

The Navigator is an album by American jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille, recorded in 1982 for the Italian Soul Note label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[3]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B+^[5]

The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn stated: "This is an example of thoughtful, nicely played group improvisation".^[2] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 4 stars, and wrote that it demonstrates Cyrille's "increasing interest in an Africanized language for jazz... each of the players introduces a section, adding bearings and compass points to a collective navigation back to the source. As with many of Cyrille's records, it asserts the jazz tradition by seeming to shed it, layer by layer. What this and the earlier Metamusicians' Stomp seem to suggest is that, the further jazz goes back towards its point of ancestral departure, the more completely it is itself."^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Andrew Cyrille except as indicated

"Through the Ages Jehovah" (Andrew Cyrille, Leroy Jenkins) - 4:36
"The Navigator" - 9:46
"Module" (Cyrille, Ted Daniel) - 3:57
"Music in Us" - 5:30
"So That Life Can Endure...P.S. With Love" - 10:04
"Circumfusion/The Magnificent Bimbo" - 10:46

Recorded at Cyrille in Milano, Italy on September 21 & 22, 1982

Personnel

References

^ Soul Note discography accessed June 1, 2011
^ ^a ^b Wynn, R. AllMusic Review accessed June 1, 2011
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 54. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Hull, Tom. "Jazz (1960–70s)". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved February 28, 2022.

[Soul_Note_discography-1] Soul Note discography accessed June 1, 2011

[Allmusic-2] Wynn, R. AllMusic Review accessed June 1, 2011

[RSJRG-3] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 54. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-4] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[5] Hull, Tom. "Jazz (1960–70s)". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved February 28, 2022.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	What About? (1969) Celebration (1975) The Loop (1978) Metamusicians' Stomp (1978) Nuba (with Jeanne Lee and Jimmy Lyons, 1979) Special People (1980) The Navigator (1982) My Friend Louis (1991) X Man (1993) Ode to the Living Tree (1994) Good to Go, with a Tribute to Bu (1995) Duo Palindrome 2002 (with Anthony Braxton, 2002) Low Blue Flame (2005) Route de Frères (2005) The Declaration of Musical Independence (2014) Proximity (with Bill McHenry, 2014) Lebroba (2017) The News (2019) 2 Blues for Cecil (with William Parker and Enrico Rava, 2021) Music Delivery/Percussion (2022)
Live albums	Dialogue of the Drums (with Milford Graves, 1974) Junction (1976) Double Clutch (with Richard Teitelbaum, 1981) Something in Return (with Jimmy Lyons, 1981) Burnt Offering (with Jimmy Lyons, 1982) Andrew Cyrille Meets Brötzmann in Berlin (with Peter Brötzmann, 1982) Irène Schweizer & Andrew Cyrille (with Irène Schweizer, 1988) Galaxies (with Vladimir Tarasov, 1990) Opus de Life (with Paul Dunmall and Henry Grimes, 2008) Evocation (with Elliott Sharp and Richard Teitelbaum, 2011)
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