Vintage Duets

1994 studio album by Fred Anderson

Vintage Duets

Studio album by

Fred Anderson

Released| 1994
Recorded| January 11, 1980
Studio| Soto, Chicago
Genre| Jazz
Length| 44:28
Label| Okka Disk
Producer| Fred Anderson
Fred Anderson chronology
| The Missing Link
(1984)  | Vintage Duets
(1994)  | Destiny
(1995)

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Vintage Duets is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson with drummer Steve McCall.

## Background[edit]

Before joining Henry Threadgill's Air trio, McCall worked with Anderson at various points from early in his career, playing together in 1966 on Joseph Jarman's Song For, a seminal document of the AACM. Vintage Duets was recorded in 1980 at the request of the tiny Austrian Message label, but the company went out of business before the album was released and finally the tapes were the primary instigation that started Bruno Johnson's Okka Disk label in 1994. The album was Anderson's first recording released in a decade.[1]

## Reception[edit]

Professional ratingsReview scores

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

In her review for AllMusic, Joslyn Layne states "is not only energetic and masterful, but somehow so full, warm, and grounded that (to free-jazz ears) it is also soothing."[2]

Howard Reich, writing for the Chicago Tribune, called the album "revelatory," and wrote: "the lucid structure, logical development, impeccable phrasing, accomplished technique and melodic sensitivity of his solos... run counter to almost everything 'free jazz' has come to mean today."[4]

The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings stated that the duets "are as laid back and unhurried as could ever be, sometimes to the point where the listener feels excluded."[3]

## Track listing[edit]

1. "Within" - 21:17
2. "Wandering" - 23:11

## Personnel[edit]

* Fred Anderson \- tenor sax
* Steve McCall \- percussion

## References[edit]

1. ^ Vintage Duets at Okka Disk
2. ^ a b Layne, Joslyn. Fred Anderson – Vintage Duets: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 43\. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.
4. ^ Reich, Howard (August 7, 1994). "Fred Anderson, Steve McCall: Vintage Duets". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 29, 2022.

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

Studio albums|

* The Missing Link (1979)
* Vintage Duets (with Steve McCall, 1980)
* Black Horn Long Gone (1993)
* Birdhouse (1995)
* Fred Chicago Chamber Music (1996)
* Fred Anderson / DKV Trio (1996)
* Back Together Again (with Hamid Drake, 2003)
* From the River to the Ocean (with Hamid Drake, 2007)
* Staying in the Game (2008)

Live albums|

* Dark Day (1979)
* The Milwaukee Tapes Vol. 1 (1980)
* Destiny (with Marilyn Crispell and Hamid Drake, 1994)
* Live at the Velvet Lounge (1998)
* Fred Anderson Quartet Volume One (1998)
* 2 Days in April (1999)
* Fred Anderson Quartet Volume Two (1999)
* Duets 2001 (with Robert Barry, 1999)
* Birthday Live 2000 (2000)
* On the Run, Live at the Velvet Lounge (2000)
* Back at the Velvet Lounge (2002)
* The Great Vision Concert (2003)
* Blue Winter (2004)
* Timeless, Live at the Velvet Lounge (2005)
* Live at the Velvet Lounge Volume III (2007)
* A Night at the Velvet Lounge Made in Chicago 2007 (2007)
* 21st Century Chase (2009)

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