Echo (Dave Burrell album)

1969 studio album by Dave Burrell

Echo

Studio album by

Dave Burrell

Released| 1969
Recorded| 13 August 1969
Genre| Post-bop, free jazz, avant-garde jazz
Length| 42:25
Label| BYG (1969)
Get Back (2001)
Sunspots (2004)
Producer| Claude Delcloo
Jean Luc Young
Jean Georgakarakos
Dave Burrell chronology
| La Vie de Bohème
(1969)  | Echo
(1969)  | After Love
(1970)

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Echo is a studio album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell. It was recorded on August 13, 1969, and first released as an LP album by BYG Actuel. It was re-released twice, first again on LP by Get Back Records in 2001 before finding its way to compact disc in 2004 via Sunspots Records.

Burrell had been part of an all-star group led by Archie Shepp that played during the 1969 Pan-African Festival in Algiers. While there, French journalists from Paris were on hand and mentioned to Burrell the possibility recording in the city. Deciding on such a venture, Burrell remarked that he "remembered the sound of the ambulances and the police cars in Algiers and that unstable interval of an augmented fourth and thought that was the interval that I wanted to put into 'Echo'." The recording was Burrell's way of honouring the group, since all were involved in the album.[1]

It has been said that the album as a whole "is [a] monster of an LP" and "a curiously schizophrenic set."[2][3]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz| [3]

AllMusic marvels at the talented ensemble whose members are each "simply blowing or pounding his respective brains out" in the first track that "becomes pleasantly numbing after a while." They even say that "if Echo isn't the noisiest jazz song in the world, it's damned close."[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz remarks that Echo is "a swirling, all-in blast that palls very quickly."[3] Both sources mention that the second track is more structured and is welcomed after the first song's barrage. Still, The Penguin Guide says that "this is a historical document, hard to listen to now."[3] In response, Burrell has mentioned in interviews that "The French did not know how to record the music, nor did anybody else. The dials were going wild and nobody really knew how to mix it back then."[1]

## Track listing

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All tracks by Dave Burrell

1. "Echo" — 20:21
2. "Peace" — 22:04

## Personnel

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Band:

* Dave Burrell — piano, arranger, liner notes
* Arthur Jones — saxophone (alto)
* Grachan Moncur III — trombone
* Sunny Murray — bass, drums
* Archie Shepp — saxophone (tenor)
* Alan Silva — bass
* Clifford Thornton — cornet

Production:

* Jacques Bisceglia — coordination
* Claude Delcloo  — executive producer
* Claude Jauvert  — engineer
* Philippe Gras — photography
* Jean Luc Young, Jean Georgakarakos — producers

## References

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1. ^ a b Fred Jung (November 10, 2004). "A Fireside Chat with Dave Burrell". Retrieved December 28, 2006.
2. ^ a b c Brandon Burke. "Echo". Retrieved December 28, 2006.
3. ^ a b c d The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook, Brian Morton, et al. pg 189.

## External links

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* Echo at AllMusic

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Dave Burrell

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

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)

* v
* t
* e

Archie Shepp

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

Leader|

* Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962)
* The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin, 1963)
* Four for Trane (1964)
* Fire Music (1965)
* On This Night (1965)
* New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane, 1965)
* Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966)
* Mama Too Tight (1966)
* The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967)
* For Losers (1968–69)
* Kwanza (1968–69)
* The Way Ahead (1968)
* Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969)
* Black Gipsy (1969)
* Blasé (1969)
* Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969)
* Pitchin Can (1969–70)
* Poem for Malcolm (1969)
* Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969)
* Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970)
* Coral Rock (1970)
* Doodlin' (1970)
* Things Have Got to Change (1971)
* Attica Blues (1972)
* The Cry of My People (1972)
* A Sea of Faces (1975)
* Bijou (1975)
* Body and Soul (Horo, 1975)
* Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975)
* Mariamar (1975)
* Montreux One (1975)
* Montreux Two (1975)
* There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975)
* Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog, 1976)
* Steam (1976)
* Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan, 1977)
* On Green Dolphin Street (1977)
* Duet (and Dollar Brand, 1978)
* Lady Bird (1978)
* Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces (1979)
* Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1980)
* Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980)
* Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof, 1982)
* Soul Song (1982)
* Down Home New York (1984)
* California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985)
* Little Red Moon (1985)
* Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan, 1987)
* Splashes (1987)
* Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988)
* Body and Soul (and Richard Davis, Enja, 1989)
* Blue Ballads (1995)

New York
Contemporary
Five|

* Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963)
* Consequences (1963)
* Rufus (1963)
* Bill Dixon 7-tette / Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)

With
Cecil
Taylor|

* Air (1960)
* The World of Cecil Taylor (1960)
* Cell Walk for Celeste (1961)
* New York City R&B (originally Buell Neidlinger, 1961)
* Jumpin' Punkins (1961)

With
others|

* A Love Supreme (John Coltrane, 1964)
* Ascension/The Major Works of John Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1965)
* Echo (Dave Burrell, 1969)
* One Down (Material, 1982)
* You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Frank Zappa, 1982–84)

Discography

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