1 and 2, is a pair of live albums by the Die Like a Dog Quartet: saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, bassist William Parker, and drummer Hamid Drake.

[10][11] Regarding the 1998 release, AllMusic reviewer Joslyn Lane wrote: "there is no 'casual' mode, there is no collapsing into old forms, this is a work-out, and all four musicians give 100 percent as they are known to do.

"[8] The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the albums 4 stars, calling Parker and Drake "the best 'rhythm section' Brötz has had for years."

They commented: "Kondo, one of the most unfettered and genie-like spirits in free playing, is far too seldom encountered in this kind of situation now and his madcap sounds are the heat-haze high-altitude counter to Peter's massive, earth-rooted oratory.

"[12] Peter Margasak, in a 1999 article for the Chicago Reader, called the albums "the best work I've heard from any of Brotzmann's ensembles in five years," and remarked: "Kondo adapts the dark, smeary sound of Miles's better electric albums..., stripping off the funky grooves and running them through Brotzmann and Parker's sublimely muscular improvisational wringer.