{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Song For | type = studio | artist = Joseph Jarman | cover = Song_For_Cover.jpeg | alt = | released = 1967 | recorded = December 16, 1966<br>October 20, 1966 (tracks 2,5) | venue = | studio = Sound Studios, Chicago | genre = Jazz | length = 40:47 (LP)<br>51:37 (CD) | label = Delmark | producer = Robert G. Koester | chronology = Joseph Jarman | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = As If It Were the Seasons | next_year = 1968 }}
'''''Song For''''' is the debut album by American jazz saxophonist Joseph Jarman, recorded in 1966 and released on the Delmark label.
==Background== Jarman's regular quintet with saxophonist Fred Anderson, trumpeter Billy Brimfield, bassist Charles Clark and drummer Thurman Barker was augmented for the record by another drummer, Steve McCall, and a new figure, pianist Christopher Gaddy, who had just returned from army service. Gaddy died on March 12, 1968, at age 24. ''Song For'' was his only recorded performance.<ref name="A Power">{{cite book|last = Lewis|first = George|author-link =George Lewis (trombonist)|title = A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music|year = 2008|publisher = University of Chicago Press|location = Chicago|isbn = 9780226476957|pages = 141, 143, 187}}</ref> Before joining Jarman, Anderson and Brimfield co-led a quartet which was one of the seminal AACM group.<ref name="Liner notes">Original Liner Notes by J.B. Figi</ref>
==Music== "Adam's Rib" is a Brimfield tune, while "Little Fox Run"" is an Anderson composition (the CD edition adds an unissued take of this piece). “Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City” is a work combining music with an extended poem by Jarman himself.<ref name="A Power"/>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz | rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}} |rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 112 }}</ref> }} Scott Yanow, in his review for AllMusic claims "this music was the next step in jazz after the high-energy passions of the earlier wave of the avant-garde started to run out of fresh ideas".<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|last=Yanow|first=Scott|class=album|id=mw0000277107|title=Joseph Jarman – ''Song For'': Review|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' states about the album "Of great documentary and historical significance, though unlikely to effect any dramatic conversions."<ref name="Penguin Guide">{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD|edition = 6th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2002|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 0-14-051521-6|pages = 778}}</ref>
==Track listing== :''All compositions by Joseph Jarman except as indicated'' #"Little Fox Run" (Fred Anderson) - 7:05 #"Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City" - 14:06 #"Adam's Rib" (Billy Brimfield) - 5:57 #"Song For" - 13:39
'''Bonus track on CD''' #<li value="5">"Little Fox Run (Unissued)" (Fred Anderson) - 10:50
==Personnel== *Joseph Jarman - alto sax, recitation *Bill Brimfield - trumpet (does not appear on track 2) *Fred Anderson - tenor sax (does not appear on track 2) *Christopher Gaddy - piano, marimba *Charles Clark - bass *Thurman Barker - drums *Steve McCall - drums (does not appear on tracks 2,5)
==References== {{reflist}} {{Joseph Jarman}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Delmark Records albums Category:Joseph Jarman albums Category:1967 debut albums Category:Albums produced by Bob Koester