Jon Gibson: In Good Company
(1992, Point Music, CD #6042)

Includes Waltz, Song 3, Extensions II.
Gibson performs on soprano saxophone. Also includes music by Philip Glass (Bed, Gradus - for Jon Gibson), Steve Reich (Reed Phase), Terry Riley (Tread on the Trail), Terry Jennings (Terry's G Dorian Blues)and John Adams (Pat's Aria).

About In Good Company:

"Classical Album of the Month." Vox 5/93

"... can sound as exhilarating as your first earful of bebop." John Gill, Vox 5/93

"...Jon Gibson...knows the strengths and weaknesses of minimalism and uniformly plays to its strengths." Paul Cook Classical Pulse 12/93

"In Good Company is an affectionate homage to minimalism's pioneers, performed by ace saxophonist and composer Jon Gibson, who was present at the creation. To works by Glass, Reich, Terry Riley, Terry Jennings and himself, Gibson brings his smooth reed tones and his innate understanding of the style....Listening to Gibson exhale the glorious Pat Nixon aria from John Adams' Nixon in China-tremulous, quivering and ecstatic- dispels any doubts that minimalism's best works are the equal of anything our revolutionary century has to offer." Michael Walsh, Time Magazine 4/19/93

Jon Gibson: Visitations I and II + Thirties
(New Tone, CD #67472)

Visitations I & II, Thirties;
Reissue of 1972 Chatham Sq. LP plus previously unreleased performance of Thirties.

JON GIBSON: bamboo flutes, bells, cymbals, gong, claves, vocal drumming, synthesizer, effects. JOHN FULLEMANN: ocean recording, technical assistance. TINA GIROUARD: maracas. RICHARD PECK: woodblock. KURT MUNKASCI: recording engineer, effects.

Performers on Thirties: JON GIBSON, Keyboard; GAVIN BRYARS, percussion; MlCHAEL PARSONS, percussion; CHRISTOPHER HOBBS, percussion; DAVID ROSENBOOM, electronic violin; STANLEY LUNETTA, percussion; ARTHUR WOODBURY, keyboard; KURT BISCHOFF, percussion; KEN HORTON, percussion; JEFF KARL, percussion; PETER SUTHERLAND, percussion; EVA SCALLA, percussion Performed "live" on August 19, 1972 at the ICES Festival, London, England.

Notes by Jon Gibson:
This is a CD reissue of my first Chatham Square LP entitled Visitations, which was originally issued in 1973. It was self-produced and 2,000 copies were made and was the first of two Gibson LPs on this label. The second LP is called Jon Gibson / Two Solo Pieces and is also a part of this New Tone project. Chatham Square Records was started by Philip Glass and Klaus Kertess and is where Glass' first recordings appeared {Music in Changing Parts, Music in Similar Motion etc.). Music by Richard Landry, Arthur Russell and Michael Snow also appears on Chatham Square. At the time Landry and myself were both performing with the Glass Ensemble and also active performing our own music. Basically, everyone was responsible for financing their own LP projects. Visitations is subtitled "a 16-Track Multi-Textured Environmental Soundscape" and refers to a series of tape mixes which culminate in the two mixes found on the CD. Other pieces from this period include Single Stroke Roll and Fluid Drive, along with a lot of attempts at in-field recordings of streams, oceans, wind, etc. They combine various continuous sounds in different ways. The sounds are generally unpitched, ambient, textural and inspired by nature and Carlos Casteneda books. Chronologically, Thirties comes on the heels of Visitations and represents an expansion of my composing vocabulary to also include works dealing with structure and pitch, and it is the first of many pieces composed in the 1970s using an overiding structure as the underpinning for the other elements in a piece. Thirties is basically a structure, or skeleton, on which many different things have been done over the years. It has had many performances by different groups around the world and also is the basis for visual graphics and a computer animated videotape. It is open ended in terms of number of performers and kinds of instruments used as well as time length of a performance. The progression of the structure is built around even divisions of the number 30 (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15, 30) contained within an ongoing 32 beat cycle. This is the first performance of Thirties and it was done at the Roundhouse in London at the ICES Festival in 1972. This festival went on for a week and included performances and events by many different experimental groups and individuals.

Running Commentary (Arbitrary Excerpts), subtitled Sign of the Times.

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Lovely Music
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Includes Jon Gibson's Rainforest/ Brazil (He Was Not Disappointed).

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Lovely Music
10 Beach Street, New York, NY 10013
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Includes Jon Gibson's Ballade. Performed by Jon Gibson, solo soprano saxophone.

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Roulette Intermedium
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Includes Jon Gibson's Waltz, from the Point Music CD

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New Sounds Srl Italy 20052 Monza (MI)
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Relative Calm (Rise), excerpt

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New Arts Program
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Running Commentary (A to Z)1 minute excerpt

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P.O. Bx 578266, Chicago, IL 60657