Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live

Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live is a live album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Hard Cell which was recorded in 2005 and released on Berne's Screwgun label.

Reception

The AllMusic review awarded the album 4 stars stating "This band is incredible. Berne and company are at the vanguard of new jazz for the 21st century, and the rapid pace at which their catalog is expanding is really separating them from the pack. Brilliant". Pitchfork's Chris Dahlen said "With its raw sound and straightforward title, Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live feels like a bootleg. If you ignore Steve Byram's fantastic cover art, it's easy to imagine this as a cassette labeled in handwritten scrawl: "these are the good parts."

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Pitchfork Media	7.8
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Track listing

All compositions by Tim Berne

"Van Gundy's Retreat" - 7:30
"Huevos" - 10:09
"Traction" - 11:28
"Manatee Woman" - 16:02

Personnel

Tim Berne - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
Craig Taborn - piano, keyboards, electronics
Tom Rainey - drums

References

Tim Berne discography, accessed October 15, 2014
^ Allmusic Review accessed October 15, 2014
^ Dahlen, Chris (2004-09-06). "Tim Berne: Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live". pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2014-10-15.
Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Songs and Rituals in Real Time (1982) The Ancestors (1983) Theoretically (with Bill Frisell, 1984) Miniature (with Joey Baron and Hank Roberts, 1988) Tim Berne's Fractured Fairy Tales (1989) Pace Yourself (1990) I Can't Put My Finger on It (with Joey Baron and Hank Roberts, 1991) Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill) (1992) Nice View (1993) Open, Coma (with Herb Robertson and Marc Ducret, 2000) The Shell Game (2001) Science Friction (2001) Snakeoil (2011) Shadow Man (2013) You've Been Watching Me (2014) Incidentals (2014)
Live albums	Inference (with Marilyn Crispell, 1992) Lowlife: The Paris Concert (1994) Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert (1994) Memory Select: The Paris Concert (1994) Big Satan (with Marc Ducret and Tom Rainey, 1996) Unwound (1996) Visitation Rites (1996) Discretion (1997) Saturation Point (1997) Seconds (1997) Please Advise (1998) The Sublime And (2003) Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live (2004) Feign (2005) Pre-Emptive Denial (2005) Livein Cognito (as Big Satan, 2006) The Veil (with Jim Black and Nels Cline, 2009)
Related articles	Screwgun Records Big Satan

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