Double Trouble | |
Type: | album |
Artist: | Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra |
Border: | yes |
Released: | 1990 |
Recorded: | April 5 and 6, 1989 |
Studio: | Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, Switzerland |
Genre: | Free jazz |
Length: | 46:30 |
Label: | Intakt CD 019 |
Producer: | Intakt Records |
Chronology: | Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra |
Prev Title: | Harmos |
Prev Year: | 1989 |
Next Title: | Theoria |
Next Year: | 1992 |
Double Trouble is an album by Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra. Documenting a large-scale, 46-minute composition by Guy, it was recorded in April 1989 in Zürich, Switzerland, and was released in 1990 by Intakt Records.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The title refers to the fact that the work was originally conceived as a double concerto for pianists Howard Riley and Alexander von Schlippenbach, joined by the combined forces of the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra and the Globe Unity Orchestra.[6] A second recorded realization of the piece can be found on Double Trouble Two, released by Intakt in 1998.[7]
In a review for AllMusic, Brian Olewnick noted that the album "gives a fine example of what this group could do." He commented: "Guy deploys his 18-piece orchestra in ever-shifting groupings and conjures forth a wide-ranging array of thematic material that still coalesces into a satisfying whole... A superb recording... Very highly recommended."
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote: "the piece has a tremendous centrifugal coherence that balances the apparently anarchic but highly organized behaviour of soloists and section-players."
Writing for Dusted Magazine, Tim Daisy stated that Double Trouble was "an access point into a new world of sound" for him, and praised the playing of drummer Paul Lytton, who presented "a whole new vocabulary than what I was used to hearing; an amazing array of sounds on the drums."[8]