Live at Macalester College explained

Live at Macalester College
Type:	Live album
Artist:	The J. R. Mitchell Byard Lancaster Experience
Cover:	Live at Macalester College.jpg
Released:	1972
Recorded:	1970–73
Venue:	Boston, MA and Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	61:09 CD release with additional tracks
Label:	Dogtown
Chronology:	Byard Lancaster
Prev Title:	It's Not Up to Us
Prev Year:	1968
Next Title:	Us
Next Year:	1974

Live at Macalester College is a live album by saxophonist/flautist Byard Lancaster and drummer J. R. Mitchell originally released in 1972 on the Dogtown label and rereleased in 2008 on CD by Porter Records.^[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated "This is an incredible document of post-Coltrane free jazz". On All About Jazz, Hrayr Attarian noted "Despite the virtuosic musical ideas flowing out of everyone's instrument the recording itself fails to stand as a single multifaceted unit, but instead has the feel of a hodge-podge of different sounds, ideas and styles".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Byard Lancaster

"1324" – 16:29
"Last Summer" – 3:25
"War World" – 6:35
"Live at Macalester" – 10:38
"World in Me" – 9:01 Additional track on CD reissue
"Thought" – 15:01 Additional track on CD reissue

Personnel

Byard Lancaster – soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, trumpet
J. R. Mitchell – percussion
Sid Simmons – piano (tracks 2–4)
Lance Gunderson – guitar (track 6)
Calvin Hill – bass (tracks 1, 5 & 6)
Jerome Hunter (tracks 2–4), Paul Morrison (track 1) – electric bass
Lester Lumley – congas, percussion (track 1)

Notes and References

http://www.porterrecords.com/id19.html Porter records album entry
Attarian, H. All About Jazz Review, accessed April 30, 2018