Marilyn Crispell

This was written up on Feb. 8, 2013. It is based almost totally on The Marilyn Crispell Sessionography, by Rick Lopez.

Main Discography

  • Marilyn Crispell: Spirit Music [1981.05.15,1982.01.13; Cadence 1015: 1983]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Live in Berlin [1982.11.04; Black Saint 120069: 1984] [**]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Rhythms Hung in Undrawn Sky [1983.05.07, Leo]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Pianosolo: A Concert in Berlin [1983.07.02; FMP 46: 1984] [**]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Doug James: And Your Ivory Voice Sings [1984.03.07-09; Leo 126: 1985] -- LP only; reissued on CD as part of Selected Works 1983-1986
  • Marilyn Crispell: Quartet Improvisations: Paris 1986 [1986.11.29; Leo 144: 1987]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Gaia [1987.03.15; Leo 152: 1988; CD: 1994] [A-]
  • Marilyn Crispell: For Coltrane [1987.07.10; Leo 195: 193] [B+]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Live in San Francisco [1987.07.08,1989.07.08,1989.10.20; Music & Arts 633: 1990] [**]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Labyrinths [1987.10.02; Victo 6: 1988; CD: 1992]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway: Duo [1989.02; Knitting Factory 117: 1992]
  • Marilyn Crispell: The Kitchen Concert [1989.02.02-04; Leo 178: 1991]
  • Marilyn Crispell Trio: Live in Zürich [1989.04.15; Leo 122: 1990] [A-]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Irčne Schweizer: Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments [1990.06.28-30; FMP 30: 1991] [***]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Circles [1990.10.07; Victo 12: 1991]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Georg Graewe: Piano Duets [1991.10.27,1991.12.19; Leo 206/207 2CD: 1992] [A-]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Highlights From the 1992 American Tour [1991.11.08,1992.03.27,1992.04.03-04; Music & Arts 758: 1993] [***]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Stellar Pulsations/Three Composers [1992.02.11,1992.03.26; Leo 194: 1994] [B]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Peter Brötzmann/Hamid Drake Trio: Hyperion [1992.06.25; Music & Arts 852: 1995]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Santuerio [1993.05.05; Leo 191: 1993] [B]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Barry Guy/Gerry Hemingway Trio: Cascades [1993.06.26; Music & Arts 853: 1995]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Spring Tour [1994.03.15-20; Alice 13: 1995] [**]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake: Destiny [1994.04.08; Okkadisk 2003: 1995] [B+]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Eddie Prévost: Band on the Wall [1994.05.26; Matchless 25: 1994]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Fritz Hauser/Hildegard Kleeb/Urs Leimgruber/Elvira Plenar: Behind the Night [1994.08.25-26; X-Talk 49: 1995]
  • MGM Trio: MGM Trio [1994.11.28,1995.12.23; Ramboy 9: 1996]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Live at Mills College 1995 [1995.01.27; Music & Arts 899: 1995] [***]
  • Marilyn Crispell: The Woodstock Concert (1995) [1995.04.21; Music & Arts 929: 1996] [A]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Contrasts: Live at Yoshi's (1995) [1995.06.27; Music & Arts 930: 1996] [A-]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Agustí Fernández: Dark Night, and Luminous [1995.11.24; Música Secreta 7: 1998]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: Music of Annette Peacock [1996.09; ECM 1626/27 2CD: 1997] [B]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Stefano Maltese: Red [1999.09.06; Black Saint 120199: 2000] [*]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Stefano Maltese: Blue [1999.09.07; Black Saint 120209: 2001]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Gary Peacock/Paul Motian: Amaryllis [2000.02; ECM 1742: 2001] [B+]
  • Marilyn Crispell Trio: Storyteller [2003.02; ECM 1847: 2004] [A-]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Collaborations: Live at Nya Perspektiv Festivals 2007 and 2007 [2004.10.23, 2007.03.09; Leo 528: 2009]
  • Marilyn Crispell: Vignettes [2007.04.18-23; ECM 2027: 2008] [**]
  • Marilyn Crispell/David Rothenberg: One Dark Night I Left My Silent House [2008.03; ECM; 2089: 2010] [A-]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Richard Nunns/Jeff Henderson: This Appearing World [2008.09.20-21; Rattle 27: 2011]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway: Affinities [2009.03.14,2009.10.19; Intakt 177: 2011] [***]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Mark Dresser/Gerry Hemingway: Play Braxton [2010.04.19; Tzadik 7640: 2012]
  • Marilyn Crispell/Erwin Ditzner/Sebastian Gramss: Free Flight [2010.11.14; Fixcel 5: 2011]

    Compilations:

  • Marilyn Crispell: Selected Works 1983-1986 [1983.05.07,1985.03.07-09,1986.11.19; Leo 2CD: 2001] [A-]

    Total records in list above: 43 (9 in house, 15 from other sources).

    Secondary Discopgraphy

  • Anthony Braxton: Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978 [1978.05.12; Hat Art 6171 2CD: 1995; Hatology 644 2CD: 2009] [B+]
  • Roscoe Mitchell Creative Orchestra: Sketches From Bamboo [1979.06.05; Moers 2024: 1979; DIW 1192]
  • Anthony Braxton: Composition 98 [1981.01.24; Hat Art 1984 2LP: 1981; Hat Art 6062: 1990]
  • Anthony Braxton: Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 [1984.09.11; Black Saint 120086: 1985]
  • Anthony Braxton: Prag 1984 (Quartet Performance) [1984.10.20; Sound Aspects 38: 1990]
  • Anthony Braxton: Quartet (London) 1985 [1985.11.13; Leo 3414/415/416 LP: 1988; Leo 200/201 2CD: 1990]
  • Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Birmingham) 1985 [1985.11.17; Leo 202/203 2CD: 1991]
  • Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Coventry) 1985 [1985.11.26; Leo 204/205 2CD: 1993]
  • The Fugs: Star Peace: A Musical Drama in Three Acts [1986; New Rose 115: 1987]
  • Reggie Workman Ensemble: Synthesis [1986.06.15; Leo 131: 1986; CD: 1994]
  • Eric Andersen: Ghosts Upon the Road [1988; Gold Castle 71327: 1989]
  • John Cage: Works for Piano, Toy Piano, & Prepared Piano Volume III [1988.07.14; Wergo 6158: 1991]
  • Heiner Stadler: Jazz Alchemy/Three Problems [1988.07.14; Labor 7006: 1988]
  • Reggie Workman Ensemble: Images [1989.01.31,1989.07.08; Music & Arts 634: 1990] [B]
  • Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X: An Opera in Three Acts [1989.04.25-26; Gramavision 79470 2CD: 1992]
  • Jean Redpath: The Songs of Robert Burns, Vol. 7 [1989.05-06; Philo 1126: 1990]
  • Anthony Braxton/Marilyn Crispell: Duets: Vancouver, 1989 [1989.06.30; Music & Arts 611: 1990] [***]
  • Henry Kaiser: Eternity Blue [1990.10.08; Shanachie 6016: 1995]
  • Anthony Braxton: Willisau (Quartet) 1991 [1991.06.02-05; Hat Art, 4CD] [A-]
  • [Mark Dresser Group]: October Meeting 1991/Anatomy of a Meeting [1991.10.22; Bimhuis 4: 1997]
  • Tim Berne/Marilyn Crispell: Inference [1992.06.25; Music & Arts 851: 1995] [*]
  • Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Victoriaville) 1992 [1992.10.10; Victo 21: 1993]
  • Greetje Bijma: Barefoot [1993.06.09-10; Enja 8038: 1993]
  • Anthony Braxton: Quartet Twelve Compositions (Live at Yoshi's) [1993.07.13-16; Music & Arts 835 2CD: 1994]
  • Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 [1993.07.19; Hat Art 6190 2CD: 1997; Hatology 678 2CD: 2009]
  • Steve Taylor: Who Pays the Piper? [1995; Gazell 2014: 1995]
  • John Cage: Imaginary Landscapes [1995.05.28-.06.01; Hat Art 6179: 1996; Hat Now 145: 2006]
  • Larry Ochs: The Secret Magritte [1995.06.23; Black Saint 120177: 1995]
  • François Houle/Marilyn Crispell: Any Terrain Tumultuous [1995.09.23; Red Toucan 9305: 1995]
  • Bobby Zankel Trio: Human Flowers [1995.11.05; CIMP 103: 1996]
  • Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Three Pieces for Orchestra [1995.12.18; Intakt 45: 1997] [B]
  • Barry Guy/London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Double Trouble Two [1995.12.19; Intakt 53: 1998]
  • Scott Fields Ensemble: 48 Motives [1996.01.11; Cadence 1064: 1996]
  • Joseph Jarman/Marilyn Crispell: Connecting Spirits [1996.01.12; Music & Arts 964: 1996] [**]
  • Guy-Gustafsson-Strid Trio with Marilyn Crispell: Gryffgryffgryffs [1996.01.22; Music & Arts 1003: 1997] [**]
  • Steve Lacy: Five Facings [1996.04.07; FMP 85: 1996; Jazzwerkstatt 28: 2008] [***]
  • Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton and Marilyn Crispell: Natives and Aliens [1996.05.24; Leo 243: 1997]
  • Ivo Perelman/Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway/William Parker: En Adir: Traditional Jewish Songs [1996.10; Music & Arts 996: 1997] [A-]
  • Ivo Perelman/Marilyn Crispell/Gerry Hemingway/William Parker: Sound Hierarchy [1996.10; Music & Arts 997: 1997]
  • Scott Fields Ensemble: 5 Frozen Eggs [1996.10.13; Music & Arts 987: 1996; Clean Feed: 2012] [***]
  • Scott Fields Ensemble: Stephen Dembski's Sonotropism [1996.10.14-17; Music & Arts 1007: 1997]
  • Nelly Pouget/Marilyn Crispell: Le Voir [1997.10.25; Minuits Regards 27972: 1997]
  • Urs Leimgruber/Marilyn Crispell/Joëlle Léandre/Fritz Hauser: Quartet Noir [1998.05.15; Victo 67: 1999]
  • Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton and Marilyn Crispell: After Appleby [1999.06.28-29; Leo 283/284 2CD: 2000]
  • Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Odyssey [1999.08.24-25; Intakt 70: 2001]
  • Tisziji Muńoz: Auspicious Healing! [2000.03.18; Anami Music 18: 2000]
  • Barry Guy New Orchestra: Inscape-Tableaux [2000.05.18-19; Intakt 66: 2001]
  • Tisziji Muńoz: Breaking the Wheel of Life and Death! [2000.06.11; Anami Music 19: 2001]
  • Lotte Anker/Marilyn Crispell/Marilyn Mazur: Poetic Justice [2000.08.22-23; Dacapo 9460: 2001]
  • Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Ithaca [2003.01.14; Intakt 96: 2004]
  • Anders Jormin: In Winds, in Light [2003.05; ECM 1866: 2004] [B-]
  • Quartet Noir: Lugano [2004.10.29; Victo 96: 2005]
  • NOW Orchestra/Marilyn Crispell: Pola [2004.11.26-27; Victo 97: 2005] [***]
  • Michele Rabbia/Marilyn Crispell/Vincent Courtois: Shifting Grace [2005.12.04-05; CAM Jazz 7791: 2006]
  • John Geggie/Marilyn Crispell/Nick Fraser: Geggie Project [2006.10.30-.11-01; Ambiances Jazz 179: 2008]
  • Joëlle Léandre/Marilyn Crispell/Roy Campbell Jr./Mat Maneri: DMG @ the Stone: Volume 1 [2006.12.22; DMG/ARC 721: 2008] [**]
  • Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton: Phases of the Night [2007.05.30-31; Intakt 138: 2008] [A-]
  • Louis Moholo-Moholo/Marilyn Crispell: Sibanye (We Are One) [2007.06.30; Intakt 145: 2008]
  • Stone Quartet: Live at Vision Festival [2010.06.28; Ayler 124: 2011] [**]
  • Gunhild Seim & Time Jungle with Marilyn Crispell: Elephant Wings [11.10.10-12; Drollehĺlĺ 9603: 2012]

    Compilations:

  • Anthony Braxton: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note [1984.09.11; CAM Jazz 1012 8CD]
  • Paul Plimley-John Oswald/Marilyn Crispell/Cecil Taylor: Complicité [2000.05.22; Victo 74/75/76 3CD: 2001] -- piano solo on 2nd disc only

    Total records in list above: 62 (9 in house, 7 from other sources).