Marion Brown
Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
EMI Odeon (Japan) 1971
OP-88011 (LP) w/insert.
MAT: ST-ECM-1004-A/B 1
S
sleeve : EX(light wear on corner, light collapse on two corners.)
media : EX-/EX(some slightly noises. the first part on A1 has some slightly cloulds that does not affect to sounds. side B has one very slightly hairline that does not affect to sounds.)
American jazz saxophonist Marion Brown, who was active at the forefront from the 1960s to 2000, released this leader album on ECM in 1970. Side A features a long introduction where the sound of water, played like an instrument, and various percussions resonate like the sounds of nature, leading into saxophone and flute melodies that resemble bird calls or elephant trumpets. Side B offers a series of scenes, as if expressing the workings of nature, with an overwhelming flow incorporating vocal improvisations. Both sides develop over 17 minutes, creating a magnificent sound world embodying all of nature, making this an outstanding masterpiece of ethnic jazz from early ECM. It’s a work that deserves high praise even as contemporary music. This is an obscure first Japanese pressing in 1971, by EMI Odeon (Toshiba). The matrix is engraved with “ST-ECM-1004-A/B 1S.” Although this is ECM's fourth album, the accompanying notes make no mention of ECM, which makes sense, as it indicates that at that time, ECM's significance was not yet recognized in Japan.
A: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
B: Djinji’s Corner