Expansion (album)

2004 live album by Dave Burrell

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
| Recital
(2001)  | Expansion
(2004)  | Margy Pargy
(2005)

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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

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Professional ratingsReview 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

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All tracks by Dave Burrell except where noted.

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

## Personnel

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

## References

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1. ^ a b Thom Jurek. "Expansion". Retrieved February 2, 2007.
2. ^ a b The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook, Brian Morton, et al. pg 190.

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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)

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