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Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble: Funky Donkey
by Derek Taylor
Luther Thomas was one of the early pioneers in the struggle to mesh free jazz-based improvisation with the visceral rhythms of funk and Rhythm and Blues. Working with colleagues in the Black Artist’s Guild, an AACM-styled musician’s collective based in St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1970s he hatched a handful of recorded experiments that traced ...
ROVA: As Was
by Derek Taylor
Saxophone quartets are no longer the radical innovation they once were. Groups like The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet and The Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet among others have appropriated the mantle originally carved out by ensembles like ROVA and the World Saxophone Quartet and in the process made the instrumentation a far more commonplace occurrence. But back ...
Joe McPhee: Trinity
by AAJ Staff
Even for Joe McPhee, Trinity is a far-ranging record. He writes in the liner notes (genuinely, I'm sure) that in this spare trio setting, “the area I wanted to work became more defined." In fact, that area is about as broad as you can possibly imagine. McPhee delivers animalistic howls, plaintive melodies, and bluesy ramble, each ...
ROVA Saxophone Quartet: As Was
by AAJ Staff
Ironically, the highest forms of freedom require the greatest discipline. And so it is with the ROVA saxophone quartet, rejuvenated in their earliest form on this '81 reissue. As Was documents the earliest form of this quartet, before Steve Adams replaced Andrew Voight. And it's heady stuff: fleet, adventurous, roving, and emotionally dense. Periods of arranged ...
Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble: Funky Donkey
by AAJ Staff
During the mid '60s, various local organizations sprang up to cultivate and expand the tradition of improvised music. While Chicago's AACM has received the bulk of the spotlight, the underappreciated St. Louis Black Artists Group (BAG) certainly deserves its share of attention as well. As the home of Oliver Lake and Julius Hemphill--as well as a ...
Joe McPhee: Nation Time
by Robert Spencer
If you have enjoyed some of Joe McPhee's recent releases, such as Undersound or Novio Iolu, you may be in for a bit of a surprise. Even if you're well aware that Joe doesn't always work with the delicacy and subtlety he employs on those two discs, but with the bluster and grandeur of Grand Marquis, ...
