20 March 2012

Air - Live in Pisa '79


For the first day of spring, what better than a live Air?

Rec. live at "Teatro Giardino Scotto", Pisa, Italy,
on June 27, 1979 (mics recording)

Henry Threadgill,reeds,flute
Fred Hopkins,bass
Steve McCall,drums

1. Unknown/Portrait Of Leo Smith (14:36)
2. Midnight Sun (13:22)
3. Sir Simpleton (12:37)
4. Untitled Tango (16:09)
5. Open Air Suit [encore] (05:56)

Total Time 1:02:42

excerpt from Midnight Sun

17 comments:

riccardo said...

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Anonymous said...

Thanks Riccardo!

Rev. Dr. Moller. MDMA, THC and BAR. said...

Live Air is welcome any time, many thanks.

Preslives said...

I've never heard this concert. Thank you very much. I have to say - in a world where blogs come and go every day, Inconstant Sol has been solid like a rock that shall not be moved. Many thanks again!

glmlr said...

Thank you Riccardo.

riccardo said...

@ Preslives

Sometimes the rock needs to be shored but, for the moment, it resists...

giu said...

thank you so much!
what a spring! ciao

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much!

kinabalu said...

Well, I suppose I have to live up to my moniker which, by the way, is the highest mountain in Southeast Asia, on the island of Borneo or more precisely, in the Sabah province of East Malaysia.

Anonymous said...

What a treat! Thank you!

Jezzer

SlimStew said...

thanks for the Air! I wonder where that photo of McCall is from. I saw him play those Rogers drums at the Keystone Korner in '79--that may be the end of the era where cats where actually carrying their drums around the world.

Hookfinger said...

Fantastic - thanks so much.

paul w. said...

hi everybody,
many thanks to riccardo for this very interesting live air recording. it is never too much air music.

by the way - track no. 4 isn't unknown - it is "untitled tango" from their first album "air song". also track 1 should be titled just "portrait of leo smith". it starts with a bass solo. i don't hear there another unknown theme or motif.

best regards.

paul w.

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Nick said...

Thanks K - I missed that one.

francisco santos said...

BIG THX!...

pierre d'alai said...

It's good to see that this is still up.
Very fine stuff -- thanks.