Credits for
Ralph Simon: Music for the Millennium

Music for the Millennium, his second Postcards recording, features Ralph Simon on soprano saxophone and breath-controlled synthesizers, engaging in riveting duets, trios, quartets, and larger ensembles with a magic club of world-class improvisers. Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, Julian Priester, Bruce Ditmas, and others bring their own unique vocabulary of genius to a set of Simon's original compositions that explores his extensive background in jazz, contemporary classical, and free improvisation with an eye towards effecting a remarriage of acoustic and electric music that might point out some directions in the fourth dimension of future jazz -- on into the next millennium. Welcome to the Magic Club!

S O N G	LENGTH
1) Cousin Bruce	3:31
2) The Ballad Quartet Will Now Play	4:37
3) Dawn Tuning	1:21
4) Downhill Slalom	4:39
5) Rebecca's Twilight	2:32
6) Una Noche (Mi Centaurita)	6:38
7) Sweet Sorrow (R Plays Blue)	4:01
8) Ghosts of Goethals (WE... ARE.. ROLLING!)	7:04
9) Windsong	3:13
10) Are You Ready (Sextet for the End of Now)	5:35
11) Blue in Green	5:10
All compositions by Ralph Simon (Musicards/BMI) except "Windsong" by Keith Jarrett (Cavelight Music/BMI) and "Blue in Green" by Miles Davis (Jazz Horn Music Corp./BMI)

Ralph Simon: Soprano saxophone, breath-controlled synthesizers
Paul Bley: Piano and synthesizers (on 2-8, 10)
Gary Peacock: Bass (on 1-6, 8-11)
Julian Priester: Trombone (on 3-6, 8)
Bruce Ditmas: Drums and synthesizers (on 1-6, 8, 10, 11)
Alan Pasqua: Piano (on 11)
Jeff Berman: Vibraphone (on 3-6, 8, 10)
Tom Beyer: Percussion and synthesized percussion (on3-6, 8, 10)
Elizabeth Panzer: Harp (on 3-6)
Michael DiSibio: Trumpet (on coda of 11)

Find out about Ralph Simon's first Postcards CD, AS.