John Abercrombie's Timeless and Gateways...

[Pyogenesis]

My first post on this fine forum, let me say "Hi" to you all.

My favorite ECM recordings are John Abercrombie's Timeless and the first two Gateway albums; there are some compositions on these albums that I became addicted to and simply listen to on a daily basis, namely Timeless, Sorcery No. 1, Nexus, Opening, Lungs, Back-Woods Song.
I'd like to know where else I can listen to these songs - other albums, live recordings - official or not - cover versions etc.
I'd love to see them playing this early stuff live...

[hamage]

I know of two other versions of Timeless. One on Ralph Towner's "Solo Concert" and another on Oregon's "Friends". Although neither is as good as JA's original.

[Pyogenesis]

Thanks for the info. Come to think of it, there is a version that I know of, played acoustically by John, Larry Coryell and the Brazilian player Badi Assad.
Here it is on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJdgWHeE2Q

[shrugs]

This radio bcst circulates:

John Abercrombie
w/ Trilok Gurtu + Rainer Brueninghaus
1992-12-19
(dec 19, 1992)
Sendesaal WDR
Cologne, GER


1. Fireside (Bruninghaus) 15:22
2. Baba (Gurtu) 11:58
3. Timeless (Abercrombie) 14:19
4. Minimal 2 (Bruninghaus) 14:34
5. Raga Rag (Bruninghaus) 14:24

[orangefunk]

There's also a wonderful version of Timeless on a 1976 gig of ECM artists at the Village Gate.... Abercrombie, Towner and Wallcott... I got hold of the gig at dimeadozen many years back...

[shrugs]

There's also a wonderful version of Timeless on a 1976 gig of ECM artists at the Village Gate.... Abercrombie, Towner and Wallcott... I got hold of the gig at dimeadozen many years back...

sounds tasty, hopefully it gets a reseed.

[VIBEr]

Gerry Niewood from Chuck Mangione's quartet of the seventies covered "Timeless" on his debut album on Horizon Records. It would be somewhere around 1976. I own it on lp but haven't listened to it in years, and I'll dig it up today.

[talisker10]

I'm also a big fan of timeless and the first 2 gateway trio albums.
I don't think any guitarist has really gone to the places where abercrombie did, particularly on the first gateway. Including abercrombie!. His legato and bends in a fairly straightforward jazz setting were mindblowing.

anyways, there are a few live dates in circulation online.
theres a gateway trio live in bremen germany in 1983 that has timeless and alot of the first album tracks.

theres also a 73 date from germany that i have not heard yet.

abercrombie is also heard to good advantage on the early ecm enrico rava album- The Pilgrim and the Stars

cheers

[CraigL]

Some other worthy obscure Abercrombie performances - the other early Rava albums (Quotation Marks on JAPO, The Plot - kind of a partner album to the earlier Pilgrim)...and a fantastic contribution to Barre Phillips' Mountainscapes, the last track. A very unusual solo for John A.