Angle (album)

Angle
Angle
Studio album by Howard Riley
Released	1969
Recorded	December 3, 1968; January 2, 1969; London
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:10
Label	CBS
Producer	David Howells
Howard Riley chronology

Angle is an album by English jazz pianist Howard Riley, which was released on CBS in 1969 as part of their Realm Jazz Series, and reissued on CD by Columbia in 1999. It features his working trio of that period, with bassist Barry Guy and drummer Alan Jackson. The fully notated "Three Fragments" is a flute-piano duet with Barbara Thompson.^[1]

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Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[2]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "Riley is the only credited composer on the album, which perhaps accounts for its thoughtful and rather reserved character."^[2]

In a review for Record Collector, Ian McCann stated that the "rhythm section, Barry Guy and Alan Jackson, are deeply in sync... Angle's lengthy title track fits its name, all pointed turns; 'Gormenghast'... is agreeably dense; 'Gill' lets gospel back into the music, then leads it astray; 'Fragment' is beautifully tender and complex; the twisted 'Three Fragments' adds Barbara Thompson's eerie flute."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Howard Riley

"Exit" – 5:00
"Gormenghast" – 7:02
"S&S" – 2:15
"Fragment" – 7:40
"Angle" – 7:10
"Aftermath" – 2:30
"Three Fragments" – 2:51
"Gill" – 5:42

Personnel

Howard Riley – piano
Barry Guy – bass
Alan Jackson – drums
Barbara Thompson – flute on 7

References

^ Original Liner Notes by Howard Riley
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1244. ISBN 0140515216.
^ McCann, Ian (28 January 2015). "Angle/The Day Will Come (The Complete CBS Recordings) Howard Riley Trio". Record Collector. Retrieved 4 April 2022.

[Liner_Notes-1] Original Liner Notes by Howard Riley

[Penguin_Guide-2] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 1244. ISBN 0140515216.

[3] McCann, Ian (28 January 2015). "Angle/The Day Will Come (The Complete CBS Recordings) Howard Riley Trio". Record Collector. Retrieved 4 April 2022.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Solo albums	Fizzles (1991) Symmetries (2001) Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett (2009) Irvin's Comet (2019)
with Howard Riley	Angle (1968 & 1969) The Day Will Come (1970)
with Tony Oxley	Ichnos (1969 & 1970) February Papers (1977) Unreleased 1974–2016 ( 1974, 1981, & 2016)
with Paul Rutherford	Iskra 1903 (1970 & 1972) Sequences 72 & 73 (1972, 1973, & 1974)
with London Jazz Composers' Orchestra	Ode (1972) Zurich Concerts (1987 & 1988) Harmos (1989) Double Trouble (1989) Theoria (1991) Double Trouble Two (1995) Radio Rondo/Schaffhausen Concert (2008)
with the Barry Guy New Orchestra	Inscape–Tableaux (2000) Oort–Entropy (2004)
with Evan Parker	Atlanta (1986) 50th Birthday Concert (1994) Bush Fire (1995) The Redwood Session (1995) Natives and Aliens (1996) Toward the Margins (1996) At the Vortex (1996) Drawn Inward (1998) After Appleby (1999) Memory/Vision (2002) Birds and Blades (2002) Boustrophedon (2004) The Moment's Energy (2007) Live at Maya Recordings Festival (2011) Music for David Mossman (2016)
with Mats Gustafsson	You Forget to Answer (1994 & 1995) Gryffgryffgryffs (1996)
with Marilyn Crispell	Cascades (1993) Odyssey (1990) Ithaca (2003) Phases of the Night (2007) Deep Memory (2015)
with Cecil Taylor	Nailed (1990) Melancholy (1990)
with Bill Dixon	Vade Mecum (1993) Vade Mecum II (1993)
with Roscoe Mitchell	Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (2004)
Related articles	Spontaneous Music Ensemble

Angle (album)

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