Destiny (Marilyn Crispell album)

Destiny
Destiny
Live album by Marilyn Crispell, Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake
Released	1995
Recorded	April 8, 1994
Venue	HotHouse, Chicago
Genre	Jazz
Length	66:41
Label	Okka Disk
Producer	Marilyn Crispell
Marilyn Crispell chronology
Fred Anderson chronology

Destiny is an album by American jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell with saxophonist Fred Anderson and drummer Hamid Drake recorded in the 1994 "Women of the New Jazz" festival at Chicago’s HotHouse and released on Okka Disk.

Background

First time she heard Anderson playing tenor sax at the Velvet Lounge, Crispell knew she would work with him. Asked with whom she wanted to play at the festival, she took the opportunity. Crispell and Drake had already worked together as a trio with German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, playing a short run of concerts that resulted in the album Hyperion, released on Music & Arts.The three musicians had played together only in a studio rehearsal the day before the live show.^[1]

Anderson and Drake recorded a duet at this session that was included on Anderson's Birdhouse (1996).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]
Down Beat	^[4]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B+^[5]

In her review for AllMusic, Joslyn Layne states "this is an incredible performance by a stunning group of musicians whose skill and chemistry completely sidestep the fact that this is only the second time that these three great jazz improvisers ever played together."^[2]

The Down Beat review by Jon Andrews says that Anderson "communicates without the harshness and split tones that alienated many listener in that era" and notes that Crispell "displays a broad range of expression from percussive rage to crystalline delicacy."^[4]

The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album 3½ stars, and commented: "this seems like a relationship written in the stars, and it allows them to build up whole areas of interaction in which the exchange of ideas is almost too fast to follow. Drake provides sterling accompaniment and... often takes the initiative in breaking up Crispell's long, suspended lines into shorter, more discursive sections."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Marilyn Crispell, Hamid Drake, Fred Anderson

"Destiny 1" - 14:16
"Destiny 2" - 8:26
"Destiny 3" - 7:29
"Destiny 4" - 13:36
"Destiny 5" - 14:37
"Destiny 6" - 8:17

Personnel

References

^ Destiny at Okka Disk
^ ^a ^b Layne, Joslyn. Marilyn Crispell – Destiny: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 350. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.
^ ^a ^b Andrews, Jon. Destiny review. Down Beat June 95: page 52. Print.
^ Hull, Tom. "Recycled Goods (#105)". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved March 16, 2022.

[Liner_notes-1] Destiny at Okka Disk

[Allmusic-2] Layne, Joslyn. Marilyn Crispell – Destiny: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 9, 2014.

[Penguin_Guide-3] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 350. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.

[DownBeat-4] Andrews, Jon. Destiny review. Down Beat June 95: page 52. Print.

[hull-5] Hull, Tom. "Recycled Goods (#105)". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved March 16, 2022.

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v t e Fred Anderson
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	The Missing Link (1979) Vintage Duets (with Steve McCall, 1980) Black Horn Long Gone (1993) Birdhouse (1995) Fred Chicago Chamber Music (1996) Fred Anderson / DKV Trio (1996) Back Together Again (with Hamid Drake, 2003) From the River to the Ocean (with Hamid Drake, 2007) Staying in the Game (2008)
Live albums	Dark Day (1979) The Milwaukee Tapes Vol. 1 (1980) Destiny (with Marilyn Crispell and Hamid Drake, 1994) Live at the Velvet Lounge (1998) Fred Anderson Quartet Volume One (1998) 2 Days in April (1999) Fred Anderson Quartet Volume Two (1999) Duets 2001 (with Robert Barry, 1999) Birthday Live 2000 (2000) On the Run, Live at the Velvet Lounge (2000) Back at the Velvet Lounge (2002) The Great Vision Concert (2003) Blue Winter (2004) Timeless, Live at the Velvet Lounge (2005) Live at the Velvet Lounge Volume III (2007) A Night at the Velvet Lounge Made in Chicago 2007 (2007) 21st Century Chase (2009)

v t e Marilyn Crispell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	And Your Ivory Voice Sings (with Doug James, 1985) Gaia (1987) Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: Music of Annette Peacock (with Paul Motian and Gary Peacock, 1996) Amaryllis (2000) Storyteller (2003) Vignettes (2007) One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (with David Rothenberg, 2008) Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway Play Braxton (with Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway, 2011) Azure (with Gary Peacock, 2011) In Motion (with Richard Poole and Gary Peacock, 2014) Dreamstruck (with Harvey Sorgen and Joe Fonda, 2018) Dream Libretto (with Tanya Kalmanovitch and Richard Teitelbaum, 2018) Streams (with Yuma Uesaka, 2018 & 2019) How to Turn the Moon (with Angelica Sanchez, 2019) With Grace in Mind (with Joe Fonda and Harvey Sorgen, 2021)
Live albums	Spirit Music (1981 & 1982) Live in Berlin (1982) Rhythms Hung in Undrawn Sky (1983) A Concert in Berlin (1983) Quartet Improvisations, Paris 1986 (1986) Labyrinths (1987) For Coltrane (1987) Live in San Francisco (1989) Duets Vancouver 1989 (with Anthony Braxton, 1989) Live in Zurich (1989) The Kitchen Concert (1989) Duo (with Gerry Hemingway, 1989) Circles (1990) Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments (with Irène Schweizer, 1990) Piano Duets (Tuned & Detuned Pianos) (with Georg Graewe, 1991) Highlights from the Summer of 1992 American Tour (1991 & 1992) Hyperion (with Peter Brötzmann and Hamid Drake, 1992) Inference (1992) Santuerio (1993) Cascades (1993) Destiny (with Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake, 1994) Band on the Wall (1994) Spring Tour (1994) Live at Yoshi's (1995) Live at Mills College, 1995 (1995) The Woodstock Concert (1995) Dark Night, and Luminous (with Agustí Fernández, 1995) Connecting Spirits (with Joseph Jarman, 1996) Red (with Stefano Maltese, 1999) Blue (with Stefano Maltese, 1999) Complicité (with Paul Plimley, John Oswald, and Cecil Taylor, 2000) Collaborations (2004 & 2007) Sibanye (We Are One) (with Louis Moholo, 2007) This Appearing World (with Richard Nunns and Jeff Henderson, 2008) Affinities (with Gerry Hemingway, 2010) ConcertOto (with Eddie Prévost and Harrison Smith, 2012) Table of Changes (with Gerry Hemingway, 2013) The Adornment of Time (with Tyshawn Sorey, 2018)