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Dangerous Odds: Live at Fyfe's Corner Bistro, 29 August 1996

by Dangerous Odds

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1.
Overture 06:27
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2.
Larry Giles: The Hotel Lounge, San Francisco 08:49
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3.
Larry Giles: A Song for All Seasons 07:09
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4.
Larry Giles: To Steve Reich, Tapestries of Sound that Tease the Ear 07:50
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5.
Larry Giles: l'Hotel 04:18
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6.
Overture 2 (free jazz) 05:04
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7.
Ron Ellis: Road to Home 12:13
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8.
Ron Ellis: Flitting from one perch to another 03:48
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9.
Postlude 05:39
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Dangerous Odds

Live concert recording

Live at Fyfe’s Corner Bistro, 29 August 1996

(The Best of Dangerous Odds Series)

Dangerous Odds was our band consisting of a core group of two poets—Ron Ellis and Larry Giles—who performed their poems accompanied by spontaneously improvised music. The core group of musicians would as often just start making sounds evoked by the mood and words of the poem as we would have any structured plan—more often, in fact. This was the band where 95 percent of all the music was fully improvised, in all styles, with most members of the band playing multiple instruments. We became so practiced at pure improvisation that the band sometimes seemed telepathic.

The Best Of Dangerous Odds series of albums represents a broad selection of live and studio performances, made in the 1990s of spontaneously improvised music to accompany performance poetry. We will release several albums' worth of material in this series, as old tapes are digitized and remastered, and in some cases remixed.

This is a live performance at Fyfe’s, recorded and mixed to digital stereo. It was the second time in 1996 that Odds played Fyfe’s, a vibrant community tavern with a live music stage that featured many renowned local jazz musicians, one or two of whom occasionally sat in with the band.

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released July 7, 2022

Dangerous Odds are:

Larry Giles: poetry, voice
Ron Ellis: poetry, voice

Al Jewer: flutes, sax, wind synth, fretless bass
Art Durkee; Chapman Stick w Infinite Sustain, 5-string bass
Deidre Buckley; electric viola, alto sax
Tom Hamer: drums, percussion

with guests (on track 9):
Siggi Baldursson: percussion, drums
Rob Hecimovich; bass

Written & Produced by Dangerous Odds
© 1996, 2022 Dangerous Odds. All Rights Reserved.

Recorded live to digital stereo
at Fyfe’s Corner Bistro, Madison, WI
29 August 1996
Engineered by The Men In Black from Laughing Cat Remote

Originally released on CD
© 1996 Dangerous Odds/Laughing Cat/Bleeding Edge Records
for radiobroadcast on WORT-FM, Madison, WI

Remastered 2022 by AD at Dragonsweyr 2022

© 1996, 2022 by Dangerous Odds. All Rights Reserved.

Album artwork by Arthur Durkee © 2022

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Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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