Burnt Offering (album)

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Burnt Offering (album) - Wikipedia

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Burnt Offering

Live album by

Jimmy Lyons and Andrew Cyrille

Released

1991

Recorded

May 15, 1982

Venue

IMPROVCO concert, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Genre

Jazz

Length

49:38

Label

Black Saint
120 130-1

Producer

Giovanni Bonandrini

Jimmy Lyons chronology

Something in Return
(1988)

Burnt Offering
(1991)

Wee Sneezawee
(1983)

Andrew Cyrille chronology

Irène Schweizer & Andrew Cyrille
(1989)

Burnt Offering
(1991)

Galaxies
(1991)

Burnt Offering is a live album by American jazz saxophonist Jimmy Lyons and American jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille. It was recorded in May 1982 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and released by the Black Saint label in 1991.^[1]

In an interview for JazzTimes, when asked about the recording, Cyrille stated: "Jimmy was coming out of Charlie Parker. He sounds almost exactly like Charlie Parker in tone. And I was coming out of Max and Roy Haynes and what all those guys had done with Bird too, see, because I was really into all that."^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B^[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide	^[5]

The AllMusic review awarded the album 4 stars.^[1]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars, and wrote: "Among the most fruitful encounters of Lyons's sadly under-documented career were his duos with Cyrille, a fellow-alumnus of Cecil Taylor Academy. Cyrille is a one-man orchestra, conjuring layered energies... 'Exotique'... is a wonderfully structured and emotionally committed performance... superb examples of two masters in flight."^[3]

Writing for Audiophile Audition, Doug Simpson commented: "Throughout the 48 minutes, Lyons blows nimble, sometimes slashing notes, knotty phrases, and now and then steps out to yield space for Cyrille's percussive lashes... 'Popp-A' is brash and budges with staccato bursts of sax and drums... 'Exotique' has an Asiatic percussive trait, while Lyons' themes are relatively more harmonious than the rest of the set list. The concert's apex is the almost 24-minute title track where Lyons and Cyrille prod each other, commingle percussive elements, and Lyons intermittently slips in refrains which mirror conventional jazz choruses, while accommodating an articulate inventiveness."^[6]

Track listing

"Popp-A" (Andrew Cyrille) – 15:03
"Exotique" (Andrew Cyrille) – 9:47
"Burnt Offering" (Jimmy Lyons) – 23:48

Recorded at an IMPROVCO concert, Allentown, PA on May 15, 1982.

Personnel

Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone
Andrew Cyrille - percussion

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Jimmy Lyons: Burnt Offering". AllMusic. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
^ Fragman, Dominic (April 26, 2019). "Andrew Cyrille: Art Science, Part 2". JazzTimes. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 826.
^ Hull, Tom. "Grade List: Jimmy Lyons". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
^ Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 186.
^ Simpson, Doug (January 5, 2015). "Jimmy Lyons – The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note [TrackList follows] – Black Saint/ Soul Note Records/Cam Jazz (5 CDs)". Audiophile Audition. Retrieved January 22, 2022.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Other Afternoons (1969) Wee Sneezawee (1983) Give It Up (1985)
Live albums	Push Pull (1978) Riffs (1980) Jump Up / What to Do About (with Sunny Murray, 1980) Something in Return (with Andrew Cyrille, 1981) Burnt Offering (with Andrew Cyrille, 1982)
Compilations	The Box Set (1972-1985)

v t e Andrew Cyrille
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	What About? (1969) Celebration (1975) The Loop (1978) Metamusicians' Stomp (1978) Nuba (with Jeanne Lee and Jimmy Lyons, 1979) Special People (1980) The Navigator (1982) My Friend Louis (1991) X Man (1993) Ode to the Living Tree (1994) Good to Go, with a Tribute to Bu (1995) Duo Palindrome 2002 (with Anthony Braxton, 2002) Low Blue Flame (2005) Route de Frères (2005) The Declaration of Musical Independence (2014) Proximity (with Bill McHenry, 2014) Lebroba (2017) The News (2019) 2 Blues for Cecil (with William Parker and Enrico Rava, 2021) Music Delivery/Percussion (2022)
Live albums	Dialogue of the Drums (with Milford Graves, 1974) Junction (1976) Double Clutch (with Richard Teitelbaum, 1981) Something in Return (with Jimmy Lyons, 1981) Burnt Offering (with Jimmy Lyons, 1982) Andrew Cyrille Meets Brötzmann in Berlin (with Peter Brötzmann, 1982) Irène Schweizer & Andrew Cyrille (with Irène Schweizer, 1988) Galaxies (with Vladimir Tarasov, 1990) Opus de Life (with Paul Dunmall and Henry Grimes, 2008) Evocation (with Elliott Sharp and Richard Teitelbaum, 2011)
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