DESCRIPTION: The Free Quartet got together once for this recording eleven years ago Free Wild Underground Jazz Barry Wedgle-synthisizer guitar Thierry Fossemalle-electric bass Stephan Rougier-drums Ian Dixon-trumpet Recorded in Sarcelles France 1992
1.Angel Isle 3:56 2.Lime Stone 8:09 3.Blow fish 6:24 4.America the Brittle 15:43 5.The Cricket Bat 2:14 6.Security Agencie 15:36 7.Blue Fish 7:09 8.Black Widow 4:13
The Free Quartet I had a light blue 280SE Mercedes with a sun roof . It was my favorite car I've ever owned and I must been through at least 30 cars in my life time, This was by far the funnest car to drive and have parties in. It was so big iside. Like a living room.This is the car we got to Sarcelles in packed full of crazy musicians. Looking back on the whole thing I have no idea how we ever got there. We were highly intoxicated. The only way we could have arrived in several pieces is by divine intervention. All the people in the car ere screaming at the top of their lungs trying to give me directions but nobody had it right yet we managed to arrive every time from the 4th arrendesmont to Sarcelles would be an easy task for most Parisians but for us it was a miracle. This recording session was one of those miracles. Theirry and Ian (the Australians) got there another way luckily for them. A safer way. Despite all odds the studio would usually have technical problems but this particular night everything was working and we managed to record most of the good stuff. I met the Aussies for the first and last time that night. We cornered and captured the music on several DAT tapes. I always made it a point to get the DAT's Anyway everyone went there seperate ways and the tapes got lost in the 20 or so moves I've had over the last 11 years for country to country, then another miracle happened. My sister had gotten and saved the DAT's so when I moved back to NYC she gave me the box of DAT gems years later. I thought they had been lost. They included music recorded all over the world. I got some great stuff from Tokyo Paris Colombia and some other counties I can't recollect. This Record 'The Free Quartet' is one of those sessions. We hope you enjoy it as much as we had playing it although I realize it's doubtful. Theirry is was the strangest bass player I ever heard. His choices of notes and rhythms makes me laugh. Stephan (the drummer) comes from the Sunny Murry school of free jazz drumming. That's all he does to my knowledge is play free. I don't think he can play anything else which is fine with me. Less to think about. This was spontanious composition . Then there was Ian Dixon on trumpet. Trumpet has been my favorite instrument ever simce I was 16 and Julius Elerbee taught me how to play Bee-bop. Julius was a great trumpet player ask anyone from the 60's in San Fransico (Dewey Redman told me Julius Elerbee was the greatest trupet player in the world). Anyway Ian Dix sounds great and we were brought together magicly and the tapes weren't lost another miracle so we have the pleasure of sharing this wild and wooly music with you. Please buy lot's of this CD. It's a miracle it ever reaches your ears B.Wedgle
