Marion Brown - Duets

[BeBop]

This one interests me based on descriptions I've read. Comments?

Also, it looks like it is available LP and download. I haven't seen a CD of it. Yes?

[Ken Dryden]

If you mean this one, I don't think it has been issued on CD. 1201 Music is selling a download of a portion of the original 2 LP set. http://www.1201music.com/store/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598%3Amarion-brown--duets-vol-1&catid=52%3Aalbums&Itemid=73

[paul secor]

Or it could be Reeds 'n Vibes with Gunter Hampel (IAI)

Or the duo albums Marion Brown did with Mal Waldron.

Though all of these have been issued on CD, The mystery continues.

Calling BeBop ...

[JSngry]

Probably, which would loop back to 1201.

[BeBop]

It's just called "Duets". (Arista Freedom 1904)

Marion Brown / alto saxophone, clarinet, piano, percussion; Leo Smith (Sides 1 & 2 only) / trumpet, percussion; Elliott Schwartz (Sides 3 & 4 only) / piano, arp synthesizer, percussion, misc. Recorded: Sides 1 & 2: May 12, 1970 in Paris, France. Tracks: Centering [1:12] (Leo Smith), Njung-Lumumba Malcolm [18:05] (Leo Smith), And Then They Danced [16:05] (Marion Brown), Rhythmus [3:30] (Leo Smith, Marion Brown). Sides 3 & 4: February 18, 1973 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA (live) Tracks: Soundways [19:33] (Marion Brown, Elliott Schwartz), Soundways Part 2 [20:14] (Marion Brown, Elliott Schwartz)

It's not rare, hard-to-find or expensive.

Edited April 7, 2013 by BeBop

[B. Clugston]

Two of the tracks from Duets showed up as extras on a CD reissue of Brown's Porto Novo.