Hamiet Bluiett & Muhal Richard Abrams
Requiem for Kent State
1998 · Just A Memory JAM 9134-2 · USA
- Artist
- Hamiet Bluiett & Muhal Richard Abrams
- Title
- Requiem for Kent State
- Release
- Saying Something for All
- Year
- 1998
- Label
- Just A Memory # JAM 9134-2
- Format
- CD · Archival
- Language
- Instrumental
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Hamiet Bluiett
- Genre
- Jazz · Free Jazz
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Kent / Jackson State Songs
- Requiem for Kent State - Free jazz
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Recorded live in 1979 with the Sam Rivers big band (Rivbea All-Star Orchestra); first issued 1998. Requiem for Kent State recorded 4 February 1979 with the Sam Rivers Big Band at Kent State University, Kent Winter Jazz Festival (rest of album recorded 31 July 1977 at The Environ, NYC). Engineers on track 6: Peter Petto, Rik Harvin. Producer Hamiet Bluiett; executive producer Jim West; liner notes Jim Little. Barcode 0 6894-49134-2 8. Manufactured by Cinram; label based in Canada (Justin Time group).
About the artist
Baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett (born 16 September 1940, Brooklyn/Lovejoy, Illinois; died 4 October 2018, St. Louis, Missouri) co-founded the Black Artists' Group and the World Saxophone Quartet; pianist Muhal Richard Abrams was a founder of Chicago's AACM. [Source: Wikipedia]