Last Exit
Live album by
Last Exit
Released1986 (1986)
RecordedFebruary 16, 1986 (1986-02-16) in Paris, France
GenreFree jazz
Length38:30
LabelEnemy
ProducerLast Exit
Last Exit chronology
Last Exit
(1986)		 The Noise of Trouble
(1986)

Last Exit is the eponymously titled live performance debut album of the free jazz group Last Exit. It was released in 1986 by Enemy Records.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

In a review for AllMusic, Brian Olewnick wrote: "Entirely improvised, Last Exit nonetheless based most of its pieces on blues forms, even if highly abstracted. This bedrock allowed the musicians, particularly Brötzmann and Sharrock... to freely explore the outer boundaries of their instruments, sublimely soaring over the down to earth and dirty rhythm team of Laswell and Jackson. This tension... reached almost unbearable degrees; its release when they would slide back into a groove leaves the listener utterly drained. Subsequent albums... would come close to attaining this level of intensity and creativity, but Last Exit ranks as a pinnacle both in Laswell's career and in the rock/free improv genre it spawned. A classic release, one that should be in the collection of anyone interested in either contemporary free improvisation or the more creative branches of rock."[2]

Writing for Trouser Press, Greg Kot stated: "On Last Exit, the sound is as unrelenting and incendiary as a blast-furnace... the overall impression is one of supernatural intensity, the agitated instrumental voicings of Sharrock and Brötzmann suggesting human cries."[1]

Track listing

All music is composed by Peter Brötzmann, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock

No.TitleLength
1."Discharge"3:23
2."Backwater"5:27
3."Catch as Catch Can"2:10
4."Red Light"7:54
5."Enemy Within"3:47
6."Crackin'"7:46
7."Pig Freedom"3:59
8."Voice of a Skin Hanger"1:43
9."Zulu Butter"2:21

Accolades

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
The Wire United Kingdom The Wire - 100 Most Important Records Ever Made (+30)[4] 1992 *

(*) designates unordered lists.

Personnel

Last Exit
Technical personnel

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1986 Enemy CD, CS, LP EMY 101

References

  1. 1 2 Kot, Greg (2007). "Last Exit". Trouser Press. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Olewnick, Brian. "Last Exit". Allmusic. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette. Penguin Books. p. 656.
  4. ↑ "The Wire - 100 Most Important Records Ever Made (+30)". The Wire. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
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