Inference (album)

Inference
Inference
Live album by Marilyn Crispell and Tim Berne
Released	1995
Recorded	June 25, 1992
Venue	Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, Canada
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:29
Label	Music & Arts; CD-851
Producer	Serge Sloimovits
Tim Berne chronology
Marilyn Crispell chronology

Inference is a live album by pianist Marilyn Crispell and saxophonist Tim Berne which was recorded during the Toronto Jazz Festival in 1992 and released on the Music & Arts label.^[1]^[2]

Reception[edit]

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

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow said "This set has plenty of stimulating and unpredictable interplay by the two giants (both of whom sound as if they have large ears). Music & Arts deserves thanks from the jazz world for making these noncommercial sounds available"^[3]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes that "This is not a great astonishment, not is it as good as it might be. Berne's curious bluester often overpowers what otherwise seems impressively vivid and reciprocal music-making."^[4]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Marilyn Crispell except as indicated

"For Alto and Piano II" - 9:43
"Ho' Time" (Tim Berne) - 10:39
"Inference" (Berne) - 10:51
"Sorrow" - 9:31
"Bass Voodoo" (Berne) - 8:22
"Only Paradise" - 5:03

Personnel[edit]

Tim Berne - alto saxophone
Marilyn Crispell - piano

References[edit]

^ Tim Berne discography, accessed October 14, 2014
^ Marilyn Crispell sessionography, accessed October 14, 2014
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed October 14, 2014
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (6th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 349. ISBN 0140515216.

[1] Tim Berne discography, accessed October 14, 2014

[2] Marilyn Crispell sessionography, accessed October 14, 2014

[Allmusic-3] Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed October 14, 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. 349. ISBN 0140515216.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Songs and Rituals in Real Time (1982) The Ancestors (1983) Theoretically (with Bill Frisell, 1984) Miniature (with Joey Baron and Hank Roberts, 1988) Tim Berne's Fractured Fairy Tales (1989) Pace Yourself (1990) I Can't Put My Finger on It (with Joey Baron and Hank Roberts, 1991) Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill) (1992) Nice View (1993) Open, Coma (with Herb Robertson and Marc Ducret, 2000) The Shell Game (2001) Science Friction (2001) Snakeoil (2011) Shadow Man (2013) You've Been Watching Me (2014) Incidentals (2014)
Live albums	Inference (with Marilyn Crispell, 1992) Lowlife: The Paris Concert (1994) Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert (1994) Memory Select: The Paris Concert (1994) Big Satan (with Marc Ducret and Tom Rainey, 1996) Unwound (1996) Visitation Rites (1996) Discretion (1997) Saturation Point (1997) Seconds (1997) Please Advise (1998) The Sublime And (2003) Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live (2004) Feign (2005) Pre-Emptive Denial (2005) Livein Cognito (as Big Satan, 2006) The Veil (with Jim Black and Nels Cline, 2009)
Related articles	Screwgun Records Big Satan

v t e Marilyn Crispell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	And Your Ivory Voice Sings (with Doug James, 1985) Gaia (1987) Nothing Ever Was, Anyway: Music of Annette Peacock (with Paul Motian and Gary Peacock, 1996) Amaryllis (2000) Storyteller (2003) Vignettes (2007) One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (with David Rothenberg, 2008) Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway Play Braxton (with Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway, 2011) Azure (with Gary Peacock, 2011) In Motion (with Richard Poole and Gary Peacock, 2014) Dreamstruck (with Harvey Sorgen and Joe Fonda, 2018) Dream Libretto (with Tanya Kalmanovitch and Richard Teitelbaum, 2018) Streams (with Yuma Uesaka, 2018 & 2019) How to Turn the Moon (with Angelica Sanchez, 2019) With Grace in Mind (with Joe Fonda and Harvey Sorgen, 2021)
Live albums	Spirit Music (1981 & 1982) Live in Berlin (1982) Rhythms Hung in Undrawn Sky (1983) A Concert in Berlin (1983) Quartet Improvisations, Paris 1986 (1986) Labyrinths (1987) For Coltrane (1987) Live in San Francisco (1989) Duets Vancouver 1989 (with Anthony Braxton, 1989) Live in Zurich (1989) The Kitchen Concert (1989) Duo (with Gerry Hemingway, 1989) Circles (1990) Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments (with Irène Schweizer, 1990) Piano Duets (Tuned & Detuned Pianos) (with Georg Graewe, 1991) Highlights from the Summer of 1992 American Tour (1991 & 1992) Hyperion (with Peter Brötzmann and Hamid Drake, 1992) Inference (1992) Santuerio (1993) Cascades (1993) Destiny (with Fred Anderson and Hamid Drake, 1994) Band on the Wall (1994) Spring Tour (1994) Live at Yoshi's (1995) Live at Mills College, 1995 (1995) The Woodstock Concert (1995) Dark Night, and Luminous (with Agustí Fernández, 1995) Connecting Spirits (with Joseph Jarman, 1996) Red (with Stefano Maltese, 1999) Blue (with Stefano Maltese, 1999) Complicité (with Paul Plimley, John Oswald, and Cecil Taylor, 2000) Collaborations (2004 & 2007) Sibanye (We Are One) (with Louis Moholo, 2007) This Appearing World (with Richard Nunns and Jeff Henderson, 2008) Affinities (with Gerry Hemingway, 2010) ConcertOto (with Eddie Prévost and Harrison Smith, 2012) Table of Changes (with Gerry Hemingway, 2013) The Adornment of Time (with Tyshawn Sorey, 2018)