The Missing Link (Fred Anderson album)

The Missing Link
Studio album by Fred Anderson
Released	1984
Recorded	September 17, 1979
Studio	Pierce Arrow Recorders, Evanston
Genre	Jazz
Length	47:40 (LP); 62:28 (CD)
Label	Nessa
Producer	Fred Anderson, Chuck Nessa
Fred Anderson chronology

The Missing Link is an album by American jazz saxophonist Fred Anderson recorded in 1979 but not issued until 1984 by Nessa Records.

Background

Originally scheduled as an Anderson's working quartet recording, trumpeter Billy Brimfield was in California unable to make the session, and Anderson decided to go ahead with the date, adding percussionist Adam Rudolph at Hamid Drake's suggestion. Larry Hayrod was then a newcomer to the quartet, replacing bassist Steven Palmore, who had left for New York after a trip to Europe with one of Anderson's ensembles.[1] [2] The CD reissue adds a bonus track, Drake's composition "Tabla Peace".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[4]

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states "Anderson is pushing the blues; however elongated and angular, they are recognizable as such and are the spiritual conscience of all the music he plays here."[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz says that "if he is a missing link, what he's bridging is the gap between the spare, blues-soaked sound of early Ornette and the clean-sweep radicalism of AACM."[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Fred Anderson except as indicated

"Twilight" - 16:37
"A Ballad for Rita" - 13:52
"The Bull" - 17:11

Bonus track on CD

"Tabla Peace" (Hamid Drake)- 14:48

Personnel

Fred Anderson - tenor sax
Larry Hayrod - bass
Hamid Drake - drums
Adam Rudolph - percussion

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References

The Missing Link original liner notes by Neil Tesser
The Milwaukee Tapes vol. 1 original liner notes by John Corbett
Jurek, Thom. Fred Anderson – The Missing Link: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 43. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.

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[Liner_notes-1] The Missing Link original liner notes by Neil Tesser

[Milwaukee-2] The Milwaukee Tapes vol. 1 original liner notes by John Corbett

[Allmusic-3] Jurek, Thom. Fred Anderson – The Missing Link: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 25, 2014.

[Penguin_Guide-4] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 43. ISBN 0-14-051521-6.