| Echo | ||||
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| 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 | |||
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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]
- ^ Fred Jung (November 10, 2004). "A Fireside Chat with Dave Burrell". Retrieved 2006-12-28.
- ^ Brandon Burke. "Echo". Retrieved 2006-12-28.
- ^ The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook, Brian Morton, et al. pg 189.