The Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra - Jazz Masters 96 (1997)

1 	Plus Equal Minus Balance 	11:13
2 	Cycles Five 	7:55
3 	Bloodline 	15:24
4 	Septone 	6:32
5 	Blu Blu Blu 	9:17
6 	Petsrof 	6:29
7 	One For The Whistler 	6:51
8 	Stretch Time 	13:24

    Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Robert De Bellis
    Alto Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – John Purcell
    Baritone Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Patience Higgins
    Bass – Brad Jones, Lindsey Horner (tracks: 2, 4, 6)
    Drums – Thurman Barker
    French Horn – Mark Taylor (3)
    Guitar – David Fiuczynski
    Piano, Synthesizer, Bells, Conductor, Producer, Composed By – Muhal Richard Abrams
    Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Eugene Ghee
    Trombone – Alfred Patterson
    Trumpet – Jack Walrath
    Tuba – Joe Daley
    Vibraphone, Timpani – Warren Smith
    Wind [Whistler] – Joel Brandon

Composer, arranger, and pianist Muhal Richard Abrams is largely a self-taught musician who was deeply influenced by the bop innovations of the late Bud Powell. Abrams has been a beacon in the jazz community as a co-founder (and first president), in 1965, of Chicago's legendary vanguard music institution, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). While Abrams is well-known as a mentor to three generations of younger musicians -- born in 1930 he was a decade older than his closest peer in the AACM -- as a bandleader and professor at the Banff Center, Columbia University, Syracuse University, and the BMI Composers' Workshop, he is not always recognized for his substantial contribution as a player and recording artist. Abrams' first gigs were playing the blues, R&B, and hard bop circuit in Chicago and working as a sideman with everyone from Dexter Gordon and Max Roach to Ruth Brown and Woody Shaw. But Abrams' own recordings reveal his strength as an innovator. His 1967 debut, Levels and Degrees of Light on Chicago's Delmark label, set the course for his own career and that of many of his AACM contemporaries, including Henry Threadgill, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Leo Smith, and Anthony Braxton. Abrams is also a conduit for the tradition. Though his music is noted for its vanguard edginess, he nonetheless bridges everything in his playing from boogie-woogie to bebop to free improv, as evidenced by Sightsong and Rejoicing With the Light, both on the Black Saint label. Abrams has been a composer that moves through the classical tradition as well. Novi, his first symphony for orchestra and jazz quartet, has been performed at various festivals, and the Kronos Quartet performed his String Quartet, No. 2. ---Thom Jurek, Rovi

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