ConcertOto

2021 live album by Marilyn Crispell, Eddie Prévost, and Harrison Smith

ConcertOto

Live album by

Marilyn Crispell, Eddie Prévost, and Harrison Smith

Released| 2021
Recorded| November 7, 2012
Studio| Cafe Oto, London
Genre| Jazz
Label| Matchless Recordings
MRCD104

ConcertOto is a live album by pianist Marilyn Crispell, drummer Eddie Prévost, and saxophonist and clarinetist Harrison Smith. It was recorded on November 7, 2012, at Cafe Oto in London, and was released in 2021 by Matchless Recordings.[1][2]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
All About Jazz| [3]
Jazz Journal| [4]

In a review for All About Jazz, John Eyles wrote: "the playing of all three players clearly reveals their histories playing jazz, free or otherwise... The players all inject great variety into the music they play... nothing ever sounds premeditated or cued in; instead, a dynamic balance is maintained between the three players, with each one being featured and contributing equally... this album is an object lesson in the art of the improviser and should be required listening for anyone who aspires to be an improvising musician."[3]

Tyran Grillo, writing for The New York City Jazz Record, praised the "magical kind of coalescence that only musicians who truly listen to one another can achieve," and commented: "Crispell is a master collage artist... Prévost is a fabulous player, never losing track of the inner thread even when he severs it while Smith treats time as a physical dimension."[5]

Jazz Journal's Nic Jones stated: "The music happens in the moments, as do the individual musicians' silences and their responses to the input of the others. As such the level of spontaneity is high and the resulting music is all the more stimulating for that."[4]

In an article for London Jazz News, Tony Dudley-Evans remarked: "This is the gentler, more contemplative side of improvised music – with some exquisite interplay between piano and saxophones, and some great swinging drumming, commenting on and punctuating the piano and saxophone in a free style... All this makes for a fine recording."[6]

## Track listing

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1. "An Exploratory Introduction" – 7:54
2. "Main Part 1" – 29:05
3. "A Meditative Interlude" – 4:22
4. "Main Part 2" – 26:05
5. "Finale" – 8:43

## Personnel

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* Marilyn Crispell – piano
* Harrison Smith – bass clarinet, saxophones
* Eddie Prévost – drums

## References

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1. ^ "Crispell / Prévost / Smith : ConcertOto". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
2. ^ "ConcertOto". Matchless Recordings. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
3. ^ a b Eyles, John (March 13, 2021). "Marilyn Crispell, Eddie Prévost, Harrison Smith: Concertoto". All About Jazz. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
4. ^ a b Jones, Nic (August 10, 2021). "Marilyn Crispell, Eddie Prévost, Harrison Smith: Concertoto". Jazz Journal. Retrieved July 5, 2022.
5. ^ Grillo, Tyran (March 2021). "ConcertoTO". New York City Jazz Record. p. 16.
6. ^ Dudley-Evans, Tony (March 29, 2021). "Eddie Prévost: Four CDs on Matchless Records". London Jazz News. Retrieved July 5, 2022.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

Studio albums|

* And Your Ivory Voice Sings (with Doug James, 1985)
* Gaia (1987)
* Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: Music of Annette Peacock (with Paul Motian and Gary Peacock, 1996)
* Amaryllis (2000)
* Storyteller (2003)
* Vignettes (2007)
* One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (with David Rothenberg, 2008)
* Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway Play Braxton (with Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway, 2011)
* Azure (with Gary Peacock, 2011)
* In Motion (with Richard Poole and Gary Peacock, 2014)
* Dreamstruck (with Harvey Sorgen and Joe Fonda, 2018)
* Dream Libretto (with Tanya Kalmanovitch and Richard Teitelbaum, 2018)
* Streams (with Yuma Uesaka, 2018 & 2019)
* How to Turn the Moon (with Angelica Sanchez, 2019)
* With Grace in Mind (with Joe Fonda and Harvey Sorgen, 2021)

Live albums|

* Spirit Music (1981 & 1982)
* Live in Berlin (1982)
* Rhythms Hung in Undrawn Sky (1983)
* A Concert in Berlin (1983)
* Quartet Improvisations, Paris 1986 (1986)
* Labyrinths (1987)
* For Coltrane (1987)
* Live in San Francisco (1989)
* Duets Vancouver 1989 (with Anthony Braxton, 1989)
* Live in Zurich (1989)
* The Kitchen Concert (1989)
* Duo (with Gerry Hemingway, 1989)
* Circles (1990)
* Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments (with Irène Schweizer, 1990)
* Piano Duets (Tuned & Detuned Pianos) (with Georg Graewe, 1991)
* Highlights from the Summer of 1992 American Tour (1991 & 1992)
* Hyperion (with Peter Brötzmann and Hamid Drake, 1992)
* Inference (1992)
* Santuerio (1993)
* Cascades (1993)
* Destiny (with Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake, 1994)
* Band on the Wall (1994)
* Spring Tour (1994)
* Live at Yoshi's (1995)
* Live at Mills College, 1995 (1995)
* The Woodstock Concert (1995)
* Dark Night, and Luminous (with Agustí Fernández, 1995)
* Connecting Spirits (with Joseph Jarman, 1996)
* Red (with Stefano Maltese, 1999)
* Blue (with Stefano Maltese, 1999)
* Complicité (with Paul Plimley, John Oswald, and Cecil Taylor, 2000)
* Collaborations (2004 & 2007)
* Sibanye (We Are One) (with Louis Moholo, 2007)
* This Appearing World (with Richard Nunns and Jeff Henderson, 2008)
* Affinities (with Gerry Hemingway, 2010)
* ConcertOto (with Eddie Prévost and Harrison Smith, 2012)
* Table of Changes (with Gerry Hemingway, 2013)
* The Adornment of Time (with Tyshawn Sorey, 2018)

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