Tim Berne – The Empire Box

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Label:	Screwgun Records – screwu 70009
Format:	CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered 2 x CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered Box Set, Compilation
Country:	US
Released:	1999
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Avant-garde Jazz, Free Jazz

Tracklist

	The Five Year Plan
1-1	The Glasco Cowboy (For Julius Hemphill)	9:35
1-2	A.K. Wadud (For Abdul Wadud)	13:55
1-3	Computerized Taps For 12 Different Steps	6:25
1-4	N.Y.C. Rites	14:35
	7X
2-1	Chang	6:48
2-2	The Water People (For Brian Horner)	8:42
2-3	7X	9:37
2-4	Flies	7:11
2-5	A Pearl In The Oliver C.	4:12
2-6	Showtime (For Don And Thelma Cline)	12:07
	Spectres
3-1	Hot And Cold	7:57
3-2	Spectres	5:36
3-3	Grendel (For Hamid Drake)	8:53
3-4	Stroll	9:19
3-5	For Charles Mingus	11:34
	Songs And Rituals In Real Time...
4-1	San Antonio / The Unknown Factor (For Akira Kurosawa	19:37
4-2	Roberto Miguel (For Roberto Miguel Miranda)	4:35
4-3	New Dog / Old Tricks	14:57
5-1	Shirley's Song (For Shirley Britt) / The Mutant Of Alberan	26:40
5-2	Flies / The Ancient Ones (For Alex Cline)	25:10

Companies, etc.

Mastered At – Masterdisk
Remastered At – Current Sounds
Glass Mastered At – Cinram, Huntsville – H80929-01
Glass Mastered At – Cinram, Huntsville – H80929-02
Glass Mastered At – Cinram, Huntsville – H80929-03
Glass Mastered At – Cinram, Huntsville – J80929-06
Glass Mastered At – Cinram, Huntsville – J80929-07
Pressed By – Cinram, Huntsville
Printed By – Fireproof Press
Published By – Party Music (2)

Credits

Alto Saxophone – Tim Berne
Artwork [Package Delectated By] – Steve Byramn*
Baritone Saxophone, Alto Flute, Piccolo Flute, Flute, Bassoon, Khene – Vinny Golia (tracks: 1-1 to 2-6)
Clarinet – John Carter (3) (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
Composed By – Tim Berne
Cornet – Olu Dara (tracks: 3-1 to 3-5)
Design [Cover Design: 7X, Spectres, and Songs And Rituals In Real Time...] – Kikuchi-Oji Design
Design [The Five Year Plan] – Alan Kikuchi (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4)
Double Bass [Double-Bass] – Ed Schuller (tracks: 3-1 to 5-2), John Lindberg (tracks: 3-3 and 3-4), Roberto Miranda (tracks: 1-1 to 2-6)
Drums – Paul Motian (tracks: 4-1 to 5-2)
Electric Guitar [Electric 6 And 12 String Guitars], Steel Guitar [Hawaiian Steel Guitar] – Nels Cline (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)
Engineer – Kazunori Sugiyama (tracks: 4-1 to 5-2)
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Bruce Bidlack (tracks: 1-1 to 2-6)
Executive Producer [7X] – Big Al
Executive Producer [The Five Year Plan] – Smitty Berne
Executive-Producer [7X] – Gary Halvorson
Mastered By – Bob Ludwig (tracks: 3-1 to 5-2)
Other [Project Consultant: The Five Year Plan] – B.B. Swift, Scordeax Halvorson
Painting [Cover Painting: Songs And Rituals In Real Time...] – Betsy Berne
Percussion – Alex Cline (tracks: 1-1 to 3-5)
Photography By [Back Cover Photo: The Five Year Plan] – Michael Pruessner
Photography By [Back Cover Photos: 7X] – Harry Zeitlin
Photography By [Back Cover Photos: Songs And Rituals In Real Time...] – Alan Kikuchi
Photography By [Back Cover Photos: Spectres] – Michele Becker
Photography By [Front Cover Photography: The Five Year Plan, 7X, and Spectres] – Alan Kikuchi
Producer – Alex Cline (tracks: 1-1 to 2-6), Brian Horner (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6), Gary Halvorson (tracks: 3-1 to 3-5), Nels Cline (tracks: 1-1 to 2-6), Tim Berne
Producer [Production Associate] – Jon Rosenberg (tracks: 4-1 to 5-2)
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Mack Goldsbury (tracks: 4-1 to 5-2)
Trombone – Glenn Ferris (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4), James Harvey (tracks: 3-1 to 3-5), John Rapson (tracks: 2-1 to 2-6)

Notes

Disc 1: Recorded at Melnitz Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles on April 25, 1979
Disc 2: Recorded at Intermix Studio in Los Angeles on January 8, 1980
Disc 3: Recorded in Brooklyn, NY on February fifth, 1981
Discs 4 and 5: Recorded live on July 1 1981 at Inroads in New York City

℗+© 1998 on the discs
℗+© 1999 on the box

These albums were remastered at Current Sound NYC, August 1998

Compiles 4 albums previously released on Empire Productions:
The Five-Year Plan
7X
Spectres
Songs And Rituals In Real Time...