Free Touching: Live in Beijing at Keep in Touch
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| Free Touching: Live in Beijing at Keep In Touch | ||||
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| Live album by Wang Yong, Han Bennink, Andreas Schreiber, Dennis Rea, Steffen Schorn, Claudio Puntin & Lesli Dalaba | ||||
| Released | 2004 | |||
| Recorded | November 12, 1996 | |||
| Genre | Free jazz Free improvisation World music | |||
| Length | 2:01:04 | |||
| Label | Noise Asia Records | |||
| Han Bennink chronology | ||||
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| Dennis Rea chronology | ||||
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Free Touching: Live at Keep in Touch is a live recording of improvisational performances by Chinese guzheng virtuoso Wang Yong and six international musicians: Dutch jazz drummer Han Bennink, Austrian violinist Andreas Schreiber, American guitarist Dennis Rea, American trumpeter Lesli Dalaba, and horn players Claudio Puntin and Steffen Schorn.[1] The jam session from which the album is drawn was recorded during the Beijing International Jazz Festival on November 12, 1996, at Keep In Touch, reportedly China's first internet cafe.[2]
The recorded performances are a mixture of American style free jazz and European influenced improvisation blended at times with traditional Chinese music.[3] On his website Dennis Rea states that Free Touching: Live in Beijing at Keep in Touch is "quite possibly the first recording of free improvisation to emerge from China."[4]
The album was released as a double CD in March, 2004 on the Hong Kong–based Noise Asia Records label. It is distributed in North America by Verge Music Distributing.[3][5]