2 Days in April

2 Days in April
Live album by Fred Anderson
Released	2000
Recorded	April 1 & 2, 1999
Venue	Day 1: Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass, Amherst; Day 2: Killian Hall, MIT, Cambridge
Genre	Jazz
Length	100:14
Label	Eremite
Producer	Michael Ehlers
Fred Anderson chronology

2 Days in April is a double album by a free jazz quartet consisting of saxophonists Fred Anderson and Kidd Jordan, bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake, documenting two 1999 concerts at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge. It was released on Eremite, a label founded by producer Michael Ehlers.[1] Anderson and Jordan first meeting was at a mid-80s AACM concert in Chicago, but this is their first recording together.[2]

Reception

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

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states:

There isn't anything remotely 'inside' about the playing on these two CDs. They are documents of concerts in which two brilliant veteran saxophonists engaged each other, stretched each other's musical vocabularies to the breaking point and pushed their rhythm section into places they hadn't dreamed of going before.
— Jurek, Thom. Fred Anderson - 2 Days in April: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 29, 2014.

Track listing

All compositions by Anderson / Drake / Jordan / Parker

Disc One: 1st Day

– 17:26
– 11:55
– 15:44
– 10:01

Disc Two: 2nd Day

– 10:00
– 17:17
– 17:51

Personnel

References

2 Days in April at Eremite Records
Original Liner Notes by Ed Hazell
Jurek, Thom. Fred Anderson - 2 Days in April: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

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[Eremite-1] 2 Days in April at Eremite Records

[Notes-2] Original Liner Notes by Ed Hazell

[Allmusic-3] Jurek, Thom. Fred Anderson - 2 Days in April: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 29, 2014.

[Penguin-4] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.