Momentum (Dave Burrell album)

Momentum
Momentum
Live album by Dave Burrell
Released	November 14, 2006
Recorded	November 2005
Genre	jazz; avant-garde; post-bop
Label	High Two
Producer	Jon Rosenberg
Dave Burrell chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[1]

Momentum is a studio album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell. It was recorded in November 2005 and released a year later on November 14, 2006 by the label High Two.^[2]

The first three tracks on the album were originally composed by Burrell to accompany the restored French silent film Body and Soul (1925) directed by Oscar Micheaux.^[3]

Track listing[]

"Downfall" — 5:49
"Broken Promise" — 5:29
"Fade to Black" — 5:53
"4:30 to Atlanta" — 6:07
"Cool Reception" — 8:55
"Momentum" — 5:06
"Coup d'État" — 5:58

Personnel[]

Band:

Dave Burrell — piano
Guillermo E. Brown — drums
Michael Formanek — double bass

Production:

Shawn Brackbill — photography
Flam — mastering
Jon Rosenberg — engineer

Reception[]

All About Jazz reviewer Troy Collins comments that "Burrell hones in on the jazz tradition with intensity and focus, delivering one of the finest statements of his career".^[3] AllMusic reviewer Stewart Mason describes the album as "spiky and challenging but only rarely moving into the rhythmic and tonal fearlessness of some of his more outside work".^[2]

References[]

^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Stewart Mason. "Momentum". Retrieved 2018-10-14.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Troy Collins. "Momentum". Retrieved 2018-10-14.

[Penguin-1] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[AMG-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Stewart Mason. "Momentum". Retrieved 2018-10-14.

[AAJ1-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Troy Collins. "Momentum". Retrieved 2018-10-14.

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As leader or co-leader	High Won-High Two (1968) Echo (1969) La Vie de Bohème (released 1969) After Love (1970) In: Sanity (The 360 Degree Music Experience, 1976) Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk (1978) Lush Life (1978) Windward Passages (hatART, 1979) The Jelly Roll Joys (1990) Recital (and Tyrone Brown, 2000) Consequences (2005) Margy Pargy (2005) Momentum (2005)
With David Murray	Hope Scope (1987) Ballads (1988) Deep River (1988) Lovers (1988) Lucky Four (1988) Spirituals (1988) Tenors (1988) Daybreak (Burrell, 1989) Remembrances (1990) Death of a Sideman (1991) In Concert (1991) Picasso (1992) Brother to Brother (1993)
With Archie Shepp	For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Body and Soul (1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) U-Jaama (Unite) (1975) Lover Man (1988)
With others	Three for Shepp (Marion Brown, 1966) I Plan to Stay a Believer (William Parker, 2001–08) Essence of Ellington (William Parker, 2012) Epitome (Odean Pope, 1993) Black Woman (Sonny Sharrock, 1969)