By Any Means Necessary (Gary Thomas album)

1989 studio album by Gary Thomas & Seventh Quadrant

By Any Means Necessary

Studio album by Gary Thomas & Seventh Quadrant

Released

1989

Recorded

May 1989

Studio

RPM Sound Studios, New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

53:58

Label

JMT
JMT 834 432

Producer

Stefan F. Winter

Gary Thomas chronology

Code Violations
(1988)

By Any Means Necessary
(1989)

While the Gate Is Open
(1990)

By Any Means Necessary is the third album by saxophonist Gary Thomas recorded in 1989 and released on the JMT label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states, "The music features dense ensembles, simultaneous improvisations, eccentric funk rhythms, and rhythmic but very dissonant horn solos that have a logic of their own. One can think of this noisy date as being an updated extension of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time and is recommended to open-minded listeners who think that nothing new has been played in jazz since the mid-'70s."

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

Track listing

All compositions by Gary Thomas except as indicated

"By Any Means Necessary" - 7:44
"Continuum" - 6:52
"You're Under Arrest" (John Scofield) - 7:17
"Potential Hazard" - 6:23
"To the Vanishing Point" - 4:37
"Screen Gem" - 5:02
"Janala" (Geri Allen, Greg Osby, Gary Thomas, Naná Vasconcelos) - 2:39
"At Risk" - 7:12
"Out of Harm's Way" - 6:12

Personnel

Gary Thomas - tenor saxophone, flute synthesizer
Greg Osby - alto saxophone, synthesizer (tracks 7 & 9)
Mick Goodrick (tracks 6 & 8), John Scofield (tracks 1, 3 & 8) - guitar
Geri Allen, (tracks 4, 5 & 7), Tim Murphy (tracks 1–6, 8 & 9) - piano, synthesizer
Anthony Cox - bass (tracks 1–6, 8 & 9)
Dennis Chambers - drums (tracks 1–6, 8 & 9)
Naná Vasconcelos - percussion (tracks 1, 2, 4-6 & 8)

References

Peabody Institute Staff Profile: Gary Thomas Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 17, 2014
Shimada, T., JMT label discography, accessed November 14, 2014
^ Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed November 17, 2014
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1396. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

v t e Gary Thomas
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Albums	By Any Means Necessary (1989) While the Gate Is Open (1990) The Kold Kage (1991) Till We Have Faces (1992) Exile's Gate (1993) Found on Sordid Streets (1996) Pariah's Pariah (1997)

v t e Geri Allen
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
Albums as leader or co-leader	The Printmakers (1984) Home Grown (1985) Open on All Sides in the Middle (1986) In the Year of the Dragon (1989) Segments (1989) Twylight (1989) Live at the Village Vanguard (1990) The Nurturer (1990) Maroons (1992) Twenty One (1994) Eyes in the Back of Your Head (1995–96) Some Aspects of Water (1996) The Gathering (1998) The Life of a Song (2004) Timeless Portraits and Dreams (2006) Flying Toward the Sound (2008) Geri Allen & Timeline Live (2009) A Child Is Born (2011) Grand River Crossings (2012) A Lovesome Thing (2012)
With Oliver Lake	Expandable Language (1984) Otherside (1988) Talkin' Stick (1997) At This Time (2008)
With others	Movies (Franco Ambrosetti, 1986) Movies Too (Franco Ambrosetti, 1988) The Collective (Cecil Brooks III, 1989) Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1989) Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990) Feed the Fire (Betty Carter, 1993) Sound Museum: Hidden Man (Ornette Coleman, 1996) Sound Museum: Three Women (Ornette Coleman, 1996) Motherland Pulse (Steve Coleman, 1985) Flute Talk (Buddy Collette, 1988) Etudes (Charlie Haden, 1987) The Montreal Tapes: with Geri Allen and Paul Motian (Charlie Haden, 1989) The Montreal Tapes: Liberation Music Orchestra (Charlie Haden, 1989) Reflections in Change (Craig Handy, 1999) Lift Every Voice (Charles Lloyd, 2002) Jumping the Creek (Charles Lloyd, 2004) Decision in Paradise (Frank Lowe, 1984) Monk in Motian (Paul Motian, 1988) Mindgames (Greg Osby, 1988) Living on the Edge (Dewey Redman, 1989) Crunchin' (Wallace Roney, 1993) Munchin' (Wallace Roney, 1993) Bemsha Swing (Woody Shaw, 1986) By Any Means Necessary (Gary Thomas, 1989)

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