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First Impressions
Label: Pure Pleasure / Strata-East
Released: 2018
Track listing: Side One: Meterologicly Tuned; Watch What Happens Now. Side Two: Umoja Suite; First Impressions.
Shamek Farrah: First Impressions
by Chris May
Launched by trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell in New York in 1971, the Strata-East label became synonymous with the black-consciousness informed spiritual-jazz movement which was perhaps the crowning glory of African American music during the 1970s. By the close of the decade, the label had released just shy of 60 albums, an impressive catalogue ...