Inside Job (Roswell Rudd album)

Inside Job
Live album by
Roswell Rudd
Released1976
RecordedMay 21, 1976
VenueStudio Rivbea, New York City
GenreFree jazz
LabelFreedom
AL 1029
ProducerMichael Cuscuna
Roswell Rudd chronology
Flexible Flyer
(1975) 		Inside Job
(1976) 		Sharing
(1978)

Inside Job is a live album by trombonist Roswell Rudd. It was recorded on May 21, 1976, at Sam Rivers' Studio Rivbea in New York City, and was released later that year by Freedom Records. On the album, Rudd is joined by trumpeter Enrico Rava, pianist Dave Burrell, bassist Stafford James, and drummer Harold White.[1][2][3][4]

Inside Job was recorded during the loft jazz festival documented on Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions.[5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz[7]

In a review for AllMusic, Ron Wynn described the album as a "solid quintet date."[2]

Jacob Garchik, writing for Ethan Iverson's web site, noted that, in comparison with Rudd's previous releases, "Mysterioso" finds him "really playing quite inside, with a more grounded vocabulary, but still with his characteristic bravado and inventiveness."[8]

Author Todd S. Jenkins stated that the album has an "aura of relaxed inventiveness."[9]

Track listings

  1. "Sacred Song" (Roswell Rudd) – 8:01
  2. "Mysterioso" (Thelonious Monk) – 7:42
  3. "Inside Job" (Roswell Rudd) – 16:26

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Roswell Rudd: Inside Job". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Wynn, Ron. "Roswell Rudd: Inside Job". AllMusic. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  3. ^ "Roswell Rudd: Inside Job". ArtistInfo. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  4. ^ "Arista Freedom discography". JazzLists. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  5. ^ Shoemaker, Bill (December 2016). "Page One". Point of Departure. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Oxford University Press. p. 180.
  7. ^ Larkin, Colin (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 756.
  8. ^ Garchik, Jacob. "On Roswell". EthanIverson.com. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  9. ^ Jenkins, Todd S. (2004). "Rudd, Roswell". Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. Greenwood. p. 293.