{"title":"Dave Liebman","description":"\u003cp\u003eDave Liebman grew up in Brooklyn, studied American history at New York University, and spent his teenage years watching John Coltrane play at the Village Vanguard, the Half Note and Birdland. He took saxophone lessons from Joe Allard and later from Lennie Tristano and Charles Lloyd, and graduated from NYU in the late 1960s with a teaching certificate and a serious jazz practice running alongside it. After a year with the jazz-rock group Ten Wheel Drive, he joined Elvin Jones's band, and in 1973 Miles Davis hired him for the electric ensemble that recorded \"On the Corner,\" \"Dark Magus\" and \"Get Up with It.\" The two musicians who had shaped his entire understanding of the saxophone were Coltrane, who had played with Jones, and Davis. He had now been inside the rhythm section of both. He left Davis in 1974 and formed Lookout Farm with pianist Richie Beirach and guitarist John Abercrombie, recording the group's ECM debut at Generation Sound Studios in New York in October 1973, a month before leaving the Davis band. The group toured India, Japan, Europe and the United States and was awarded the number one position in DownBeat's 1976 International Critics' Poll for Group Most Deserving of Wider Recognition. Liebman has recorded on over 200 albums as a leader or co-leader in every context from free jazz to standards, taught extensively across every continent, and co-founded Free Life Communication, one of the organising collectives of the New York loft jazz scene. He was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2011. He remains active, aged 79.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dave-liebman-lookout-farm-1974-japanese-ecm-vinyl-lp","title":"Dave Liebman - Lookout Farm (1974 Japanese ECM Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDave Liebman - \u003cem\u003eLookout Farm\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1974 Japanese ECM Records (PA-7096, Trio Jazz Mania, Trio Electronics)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiebman had spent 1972 and 1973 inside Miles Davis's electric groups, playing soprano saxophone across most of side one of \u003cem\u003eOn the Corner\u003c\/em\u003e and continuing on through \u003cem\u003eBig Fun\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGet Up with It\u003c\/em\u003e. Lookout Farm was the band he formed on his own account, and this record documents it at the outset. The name of the closing piece, \"M.D.,\" is not coded: Liebman explained in his liner notes that it was written for Miles, that \"Pablo's Story\" was for Picasso, and that Lookout Farm itself was a place where he had met a friend. What is striking is how much of the Davis vocabulary is here without the record sounding derivative. Don Alias and Badal Roy had both played on \u003cem\u003eOn the Corner\u003c\/em\u003e and both turn up again, and the percussion section running underneath these three pieces gives the album a density and a rhythmic layering that has more to do with Davis's electric period than with anything else ECM was releasing in 1974. \"Pablo's Story\" fills most of side A across fourteen minutes, opening on Abercrombie's flamenco-inflected arpeggios before Liebman enters on alto flute, and it moves through Latin figures into freer territory as the percussion accumulates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sam's Float\" is shorter and harder, with Abercrombie switching to electric guitar and Liebman on flute. Then the whole of side B is given to \"M.D.\" running into \"Lookout Farm,\" twenty-four minutes that give Beirach his most substantial playing on the record and let the rhythm section and the percussionists stretch out at length. Beirach and Liebman would go on working together for decades, and the partnership starts to make sense here. The album sits oddly in the ECM catalogue and that is part of its appeal: it is percussive, electric and hot where the label was already becoming known for space and cool, and it has been rather overlooked as a result.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the Japanese pressing on ECM PA-7096, from the Trio Jazz Mania series, manufactured by Trio Electronics, Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECM Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43855724773435,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_7856.jpg?v=1784854650"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/dave-liebman.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}