Kip Hanrahan - 9 Albums (1981-2008)

Kip Hanrahan (born December 9, 1954) is an American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist. Hanrahan was born in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx to an Irish-Jewish family. He has an unusual role in the albums released under his name, one which he has analogized to that of a film director. He assembles players and materials, combining modern/avant-garde/free jazz figures like Don Pullen and Steve Swallow, Latin jazz players such as Milton Cardona and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, and occasionally rock musicians like Sting, Jack Bruce and Grayson Hugh, also Bassist,singer,song writer,producer Fernando Saunders.

He produced a number of significant recordings by the nuevo tango master Ástor Piazzolla in the last decade of Piazzolla's life, as well as recordings by Latin music figures including Jerry Gonzalez. Hanrahan also worked with the poet Ishmael Reed on three recordings with the Conjure Ensemble, featuring Taj Mahal on the first release. These side projects were not the only poetry-based discs: Darn It from 1994 celebrates the work of Paul Haines.



Personnel:
Kip Hanrahan (Voice and Percussion, Quinto) - 1-3,5-9
Jerry Gonzalez (Congas and Percussion) - 1-3,5-8
Arto Lindsay (Electric Guitar) - 1-3,5-8
Anton Fier (Trap Drums) - 1-3,5-8
Daniel Ponce (Congas and Iya) - 1-3,5,7
Chico Freeman (Tenor Saxophone and Clarinet) - 1,2,4,9
Carlos Ward (Alto Saxophone) - 2,4,7,9
Bill Laswell (Bass Guitar) - 1,3,4,7
Lisa Herman (Voice) - 3,5,7
George Cartwright (Alto Saxophone, Flute and Piccolo) - 1,3,4
Ignacio Berroa (Trap Drums) - 2,5,6
Jamaaladen Tacuma (Electric Bass) - 2,5,6
Nicky Marrero (Bongos and Okonkolo) - 1,3
Byard Lancaster (Tenor Saxophone, Flute) - 1,3
George Naha (Electric Guitar) - 2,3
Orlando Digirolamo (Accordion) - 4,9
Gene Golden (Chekere and Congas) - 6,8
Carla Bley (Piano and Voice) - 4
Billy Bang (Violin) - 4
John Clark (French Horn) - 4
Angel Perez (Congas) - 6
John Stubblefield (Tenor Saxophone) - 6
Bern Nix (Electric Guitar) - 6
Dom Um Romao (Surdo Grande and Agogo) - 7
Fred Firth (Electric Guitar) - 7
Carlos Mestre (Congas) - 8
Michael Mantler (Trumpet) - 8
Cecil McBee (Double Bass) - 9
Teo Macero (Tenor Saxophone) - 9
David Liebman (Soprano Saxophone) - 9
Victor Lewis (Drums) - 9

Track List:
1. Whatever I want 5:44
2. At the moment of the serve 5:21
3. This night comes out of both of us 5:42
4. India song 4:18
5. A lover divides time 3:17
6. No one gets to transcend anything 3:43
7. Shadow to shadow 7:07
8. Sketch from two cubas 4:09
9. Heart on my sleeve 5:19





Kip Hanrahan (Percussion)
Ignacio Berroa (Trap Drums)
Jack Bruce (Vocals, Bass Guitar and Piano)
Milton Cardona (Congas, Bongos)
Arto Lindsay (Electric Guitar)
David Murray (Tenor Saxophone)
Puntilla Orlando Rios (Quinto, Congas)
Peter Scherer (Synclavier and Organ)
Steve Swallow (Bass Guitar)
Anton Fier (Trap Drums) - 3,6
Friesner Augustin (Tambou, Quinto) - 7,8
Elysee Pyronneau (Electric Guitar) - 7
Olufemi Claudette Mitchell (Chekere) - 1
Mario Rivera (Baritone Saxophone) - 2
Ned Rothenberg (Tenor Saxophone) - 2
Richie Vitale (Trumpet) - 2
Lew Soloff (Trumpet) - 2
Nancy Weiss (Vocals) - 11

Track List:
1. A Small Map of Heaven 5:21
2. Shadow Song (Mario's In) 4:05
3. Smiles and Grins 3:09
4. Two Heartedly. To the Other Side 3:12
5. Chances Are Good (Baden's Distance) 5:12
6. Make Love 2 4:27
7. One Casual Song (After Another) 3:09
8. Intimate Distances (Jack's Margaret's Natasha) 3:00
9. Describing it To Yourself as Convex 4:17
10. What Do You Think? That This Mountain Was Once On Fire? 1:41
11. Dark (Kip's Tune) 2:55





Ignacio Berroa- drums
Jack Bruce -electric bass , vocals
Milton Cardona -conga, quinto, shekere
Clem Clempson -electric guitar
Anton Fier -drums
Bruce Gary -drums
Andy Gonzalez -bass
Kip Hanrahan -percussion, vocals, shekere
Charles Neville -percussion
Daniel Ponce -conga
Steve Swallow -electric bass
Allen Toussaint -piano

Track List:
1. Two (Still In Half Light) (6:42)
2. The First And Last To Love Me (3 , November) (1:24)
3. Smal Change (3:06)
4. Mañequito's Magic Afternoon (0:53)
5. The First And Last To Love Me (4, September) (2:47)





Desire Develops an Edge was originally released as a two-LP set in 1983; it was reissued on a single CD in 1994. It consists primarily of compositions by Hanrahan, who does not play any of the instruments but avails himself of a kaleidoscopic group of studio musicans that includes Americans (Arto Lindsay, Steve Swallow), Cubans (Puntilla Orlando Rios, Milton Cardona), and Haitians (Elysee Pyronneau, Jean Claude Jean), as well as one very prominent Briton – former Cream singer and bassist Jack Bruce. As might be expected, there is quite a bit of complex and beautiful music on this album; highlights include the absolutely delightful "What Is This Dance, Anyway?" and "Don't Complicate the Life." But there's also an awful lot of downright tiresome music. The main offenders are an assortment of meandering songs with embarrassing lyrics: For example, the awful "Two (Still in Half-Light)" (which does benefit from the interplay between bassists Jamaladeen Tacuma and Steve Swallow") and the dumbly vulgar "Her Boyfriend Assesses His Value and Pleads His Case." On tracks like these, the session players lay down intricate beds of rhythm while Bruce sings no discernible melody whatsoever, thus obscuring the only thing really worth hearing. Overall, this is a fairly frustrating album. ~ AllMusic Review by Rick Anderson

Track List:
01. Desire Develops an Edge (6:17)
02. What Is This Dance, Anyway? (3:41)
03. Two (Still in Half-Light) (5:39)
04. Early Fall (2:10)
05. Velasquez (5:03)
06. (Don't Complicate) The Life (La Vie) (6:48)
07. Late Fall (2:21)
08. Sara Wade (2:54)
09. Far from Freetown (1:31)
10. All Us Working Class Boys (3:59)
11. Child Song (2:36)
12. Nocturnal Heart (Coracao Noturno) (4:56)
13. Her Boyfriend Assesses His Value and Pleads His Case (4:32)
14. Meaning a Visa (3:42)
15. Jack and the Golden Palominos (3:46)
16. Trust Me Yet? (4:55)
17. Nancy (The Silence Focuses on You…) (4:28)





This '90 session, reissued on CD by American Clave, contains spoken word narratives and offbeat vocals, intense polyrhythmic dialogues and guitar solos, blistering sax and unison passages. Hanrahan moves from idiom to idiom with no concerns about pacing or genre clash. His roster of guest stars includes Sting, Chico Freeman, Andrew Cyrille, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Leo Nocentelli, Don Pullen, Giovanni Hidalgo, vocalists Carmen Lundy, Lucy Gabrielle Penabaz, and Diahnne Abbott. It is not for all or even most tastes, but anyone who can remain on board for the entire cruise will certainly remember the trip. ~ AllMusic Review by Ron Wynn

Track List:
01. Faith in the Pants, Not in the Prick (5:37)
02. When I Lose Myself in the Darkness and Pain of Love, No, This Love (5:37)
03. She Turned So That Maybe a Third of Her Face Was in This Fuckin' Beautiful Half-Light (4:31)
04. At the Same Time, as the Subway Train Was Pulling Out of the Station (4:29)
05. I Told Him "I Don't Have to Be Beaten to Be Understood" (6:02)
06. Look, the Moon (5:06)
07. Half of Sex Is Fear (6:26)
08. Gillian's Folk Song (3:47)
09. History (5:15)
10. There Was Something About His Anger That Was So…Inaccessible to Me (5:45)
11. If I Knew How To, If I Knew What Muscles to Relax (3:14)
12. You're No Pimp, and I'm Certainly No Whore (1:31)
13. Deep Summer (4:14)
14. Look, the Moon (5:44)
15. In Place of an Epilog: Lullabye for my Daughter (3:04)
16. In Place of a Morale: Geography (5:06)





Track List:
1 .You Can Tell A Guy By His Anger (7:45)
2 .The Last Song (3:34)
3 .As In Angola (Red Star In The Morning Sky) (3:35)
4 .Red Star (6:53)
5 .You Can Tell Someone Who'll Never Fullfill Their Potential By The Way They Measure The Evening (1:18)
6. What We Learned That Night In Vera Cruz And How We Applied It (2:36)
7 .G-d Is Great (10:34)
8 .As In The Bronx (You Can Tell Where Someone Comes From By What They Laugh At) (4:27)
9 .You Can Tell A Moment Of Clarity By The Digital Trace It Leaves (6:01)
10 .As In The Red Morning (8:00)
11 .The Last Song On The Album (3:25)





George Adams -tenor sax
Robert Ameen -drums
Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros -trumpet
Ignacio Berroa -drums
Jack Bruce -bass, vocals
Milton Cardona -conga
Anthony Carrillo -conga
Richie Flores -conga
Chico Freeman -tenor sax
Renaud Garcia-Fons -bass
Charles Gonzalez -bass
William Green -drums
Kip Hanrahan -arranger, conductor, producer
Giovanni Hidalgo -conga
J.T. Lewis -drums
Carmen Lundy -vocals
Charles Neville -tenor sax
Leo Nocentelli -guitar
Don Pullen -organ, piano
Wolfgang Puschnig -alto sax
Elysee Pyronneau -guitar
Michael Riessler -bass clarinet
Dino Saluzzi -bandoneon
Steve Swallow -bass
Allen Toussaint -piano
Alfredo Triff -violin

Track List:
1 .Buddy Bolden's Blues (9:45)
2. …At The Same Time As The Subway Train Was Pulling Out Of The Station… (5:18)
3 .The First And Last To Love Me (4, December) (10:26)
4 .The September Dawn Shows Itself To Elizabeth And Her Lover On East18th Street In Manhattan (7:36)
5 .The Same Dawn, At Almost The Exact Same Moment, Actually Smiles At Don In Passaic (5:04)
6. Within An Hour, In New Orleans, Charles Knows The Light's In The Room Without Even Opening His Eyes (0:57)
7. The First And Last To Love Me (2, October) (5:57)





Kip Hanrahan -producer
Robert Ameen- drums
Anthony Carrillo- conga
Richie Flores -quinto
D.D. Jackson -piano
J.T. Lewis -drums
Paoli Mejias -quinto
Don Pullen -organ, piano
Fernando Saunders- bass
Alfredo Triff -violin

Track List:
1 .Shahrazade Watches Birds Through An Alabaster Ceiling (1:19)
2 .The Jinniya Sleeps On The Alabaster Ceiling, The Coolness Of The Stone… (1:19)
3 .Birds Through The Alabaster Ceiling (1:26)
4 ."The Illusion Of Commerce", Part 1 Of Shadow Nights -2 (0:09)
5 ."The Jinn Of Class", Part One Of Shadow Nights -2 (0:41)
6 ."The Lie Of The Possibility Of Fairness In Contracts In Capitalism", The First Part Of Shadow Nights -2 (0:13)
7 ."Fear", Opening (Shadow Nights -2) (0:09)
8 .Commerce (8:46)
9 .The Tale Of The Youth Behind Whom Indian And Chinese Music Was Played, And The Tale Of The Jaundiced Youth (9:34)
10. Accuracy Of Location In Shahrazade's Shadow Night (12:19)
11 ."Faith And Resolve", Parts One And Three Of Shadow Nights -2 (0:10)
12 .The Man Who Stole The Golden Plate From Which The Dog Had Eaten (1:19)
13 .Ishaak Of Mosul, His Mistress And The Devil (1:26)
14 .Shahrazade And The Forming Of The Next Day (0:06)





Steve Swallow (bass)
Robby Ameen (trap drums, percussion)
Horacio El Negro Hernandez (trap drums, percussion, chorus voice)
Dafnis Prieto (trap drums, percussion, chorus voice)
Pedro Martinez (congas, percussion, chorus voice)
Milton Cardona (percussion)
Alfredo Triff (violin)
Fernando Saunders (bass, chorus voice)
Yosvany Terry Cabrera (alto sax, checkere, chorus voice)
Ron Blake (tenor sax)
Bryan Carrott (vibraphone)
Kip Hanrahan (direction, percussion, chorus voice)

lead voices:
Brandon Ross, Xiomara Laugart, Lindsay Marcus, Leijia Hanrahan, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Kip Hanrahan, Fernando Saunders

piano chorus:
John Beasley, Mike Cain, DD Jackson, Lysandro Arenas

additional players:
Leo Nocentelli (guitar track 2)
Anthony Cox (bass tracks 6, 15)
Billy Bang (violin track 2)
Mario Rivera (baritone sax, tenor sax, tracks 2, 8)
Richie Flores (conga track 13)

Track List:
01. Busses From Heaven
02. Real Time And Beautiful Scars
03. The Girl That Won’t Resolve
04. Caravaggio / A Quick Balance
05. Night Cumbia
06. One Summer Afternoon
07. Xiomarra Wears The Heat Beautifully
08. Paris Through Tears
09. Montana
10. Leijia On The Way To Brooklyn
11. Milton Cardona
12. Salt In The Mozambique Evening
13. Rumba Of Cities （Hanrahan, Martinez）
14. Accounting In The Morning
15. Winterscape With I．m．f．
16. City Of Gold



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