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Music For The Gift (1963)

  1. Music for the Gift, Part1 (5:44)
  2. Music for the Gift, Part 2 (1:52)
  3. Music for the Gift, Part 3 (4:35)
  4. Music for the Gift, Part 4 (1:20)
  5. Music for the Gift, Part 5 (6:03)
Recorded in Paris at Radio France.

A jazz piece performed by Chet Baker with his quartet, and featuring tape manipulations by Riley using a delay mechanism through two looped tape recorders. All of it performed live for French radio. Over five sections the jazz quartet is eventually displaced and becomes part of a unit of sound that repeats itself, over and over again, whether it be the trumpet, a vocal, or the rhythm section, creating -- unintentionally, of course -- the precursor to the work that would become "In C," and create the entire minimalist movement.


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