David Liebman / Richie Beirach / Ron McClure / Billy Hart

David Liebman / Richie Beirach / Ron McClure / Billy Hart: Redemption - Quest Live in Europe

by John Kelman
April 13, 2007

The passage of time has no meaning when it comes to the kind of intimate musical understanding that saxophonist David Liebman and pianist Richie Beirach have shared since first working together in the early '70s. They have collaborated on numerous group projects as well as a series of duet recordings that are in dire need of reissue. Perhaps their longest and most enduring group was Quest, a quartet that released half a dozen albums between 1981 and 1990.

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David Liebman, Richie Beirach, Ron McClure, Billy Hart, Redemption: Quest Live in Europe on Hatology 642

Source: All About Jazz
April 8, 2007

Redemption: Quest Live in Europe on Hatology 642

David Liebman: soprano & tenor saxophones & flute, Richie Beirach: piano, Ron McClure: double bass, Billy Hart: drums

Recorded 2005 in Paris and Baden/Switzerland.

“To be back on tour with Quest after fifteen years was like going home. We are peers with a common language that traverses the past several decades of music; experience and commonality are intangibles which when present create a sum much greater than the individual parts. What a ...
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