# Song For

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Song For
| type       = studio
| artist     = [Joseph Jarman](/source/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](/source/Jazz)
| length     = 40:47 (LP)<br>51:37 (CD)
| label      = [Delmark](/source/Delmark)
| producer   = [Robert G. Koester](/source/Bob_Koester)
| chronology = [Joseph Jarman](/source/Joseph_Jarman)
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [As If It Were the Seasons](/source/As_If_It_Were_the_Seasons)
| next_year  = 1968
}}

'''''Song For''''' is the debut album by American jazz saxophonist [Joseph Jarman](/source/Joseph_Jarman), recorded in 1966 and released on the [Delmark](/source/Delmark_Records) label.

==Background==
Jarman's regular quintet with saxophonist [Fred Anderson](/source/Fred_Anderson_(musician)), trumpeter [Billy Brimfield](/source/Billy_Brimfield), bassist [Charles Clark](/source/Charles_Clark_(musician)) and drummer [Thurman Barker](/source/Thurman_Barker) was augmented for the record by another drummer, [Steve McCall](/source/Steve_McCall_(drummer)), 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](/source/Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Creative_Musicians) 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](/source/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](/source/AllMusic)
| rev1Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>
| rev2 = [The Penguin Guide to Jazz](/source/The_Penguin_Guide_to_Jazz)
| rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}
|rev3 = ''[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Fred_Anderson_(musician))) - 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](/source/Fred_Anderson_(musician))) - 10:50

==Personnel==
*[Joseph Jarman](/source/Joseph_Jarman) - [alto sax](/source/alto_sax), [recitation](/source/recitation)
*Bill Brimfield - [trumpet](/source/trumpet) (does not appear on track 2)
*[Fred Anderson](/source/Fred_Anderson_(musician)) - [tenor sax](/source/tenor_sax) (does not appear on track 2)
*Christopher Gaddy - [piano](/source/piano), [marimba](/source/marimba)
*[Charles Clark](/source/Charles_Clark_(musician)) - [bass](/source/Double_bass)
*[Thurman Barker](/source/Thurman_Barker) - [drums](/source/drums)
*[Steve McCall](/source/Steve_McCall_(drummer)) - [drums](/source/drums) (does not appear on tracks 2,5)

==References==
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Category:Delmark Records albums
Category:Joseph Jarman albums
Category:1967 debut albums
Category:Albums produced by Bob Koester

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