Description

Vinyl LP – SIR022

Composer and saxophonist Brian Brown produced some of the most refined Australian jazz record- ings during the 1970s. A versatile musician whose distinct impressionist music melded modern jazz with the outer limits of free experimentation. Considered to be his greatest work was the 1975 con- cept album Carlton Streets, an ambitious recording that romanticised the sights, sounds and the nos- talgia of this once-bohemian Melbourne neighbourhood. Differing from his eco-jazz composition Wildflowers heard on the recent Roundtable compilation Pyramid Pieces, Carlton Streets explores the polar opposite, offering jazz impressions of the urban environment. Comparable to other pio- neering jazz-rock groups such as Ian Carr’s Nucleus and mid-period Soft Machine, the album is a mosaic of ecstatic jazz-rock groove, spirited free improvisation and expanded experimental tex- tures. A potent fusion that owes as much to Australian 20th-century avant-garde composers as it does to the influence of the electric jazz innovators, specifically early Weather Report and Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi. The Roundtable are pleased to showcase this important artist and offer a new edition of this landmark Australian jazz recording. Restored from the original master tapes and presented in a gatefold sleeve including liner notes and rare photos.

• Landmark 1975 Australian experimental jazz-rock.
• Ian Carr’s Nucleus meets Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi.
• Restored from the original master tapes.
• Gatefold sleeve including liner notes and rare photos.

Tracklist:
SIDE 1
1. Carlton Streets 2. Coonadoo
SIDE 2
1. The Fair
2. Gobble
3. Flight