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Ronnie Boykins: The Will Come, Is Now
by Jerry D'Souza
Ronnie Boykins is probably best known for being a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra. During that time, the Arkestra made some of its best recordings and Boykins was an integral part of the equation. He integrated his relationship with Sun Ra to gear the forward movement of the music. In his individual contributions on the ...
The Naked Future: Gigantomachia
by Jerry D'Souza
Arrington de Dionyso (bass clarinet, contralto clarinet) transfuses a relentless energy into his music. He is a restless character driven to manipulate sound and seek new dimensions. He wails and he squeals and he soars high into the atmosphere, but he also gets down to the plain, exposing his ability to mark a linear trajectory. Even ...
Sun Ra: Sun Ra Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Sun Ra featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold is a near mythical document of the astral traveling Arkestra. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, this recording came a year before the now historic and certainly definitive Arkestra records, Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 1 & 2 (ESP, 1965) and Magic City (Saturn, 1965) that came hot on ...
Ronnie Boykins: The Will Come, Is Now
by Raul d'Gama Rose
For Ronnie Boykins, Sun Ra's bassist, The Will Come, Is Now brings to a close a remarkable sojourn that stretched from his galactic showcasing with the Arkestra at the Judson Hall performances of 1964 to an intellectual deconstruction of bebop. During the years that followed, Boykins appeared with Sam Rivers and was also heard at Ornette ...
Erica Pomerance: You Used To Think
by Raul d'Gama Rose
You Used To Think is one of those records that defines the late 1960s cry for freedom. Laced with existential angst, the music is a Joycean journey that meanders musically--in a gloriously atonal manner--through myriad idioms, including jazz, folk, and a wet canvas of classical Indian ragas. The glue that binds it all is the eerily ...
The Naked Future: Gigantomachia
by Raul d'Gama Rose
There has always been a raw, sinewy character to music performed wherever and whenever Arrington de Dionyso shows up to play his deep, woodsy clarinets. The epic narratives on Gigantomachia, interpreted by de Dionyso's latest ensemble, The Naked Future, provide no exception. If anything, the music is enveloped in an energetic tension from start to finish, ...
Sun Ra: Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold
by John Sharpe
Sun Ra Sun Ra: Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold ESP-Disk 2009 Any newly available, 1960s vintage Sun Ra would be cause for celebration, so ESP's unearthing of 45 minutes of well-recorded stereo is wonderful indeed. Five new pieces supplement the six tracks which made up the previously ...
Patty Waters: Sings
by Lyn Horton
The female voice is branded with certain qualifications which place it in slots of clear expectations. Patty Waters has a voice that links it to no other, despite recurring efforts from critics to do so. The 1965 release Sings is the first documentation of her as songstress, songwriter and improviser. Waters' voice projects mood and sound. ...
HAR-YOU Percussion Group: Sounds of the Ghetto Youth
by Jerry D'Souza
Just after the Harlem riots in 1964, Roger “Montego Joe" Sanders was given the opportunity to mentor a group of young men. He was involved with HAR-YOU, the acronym for Harlem Youth Unlimited--his role including teaching them Afro and jazz percussion. After four years of practice, Sanders felt that the group was ready to record and ...
Flow Trio: Rejuvenation
by Jerry D'Souza
The tenor saxophone raises a lonesome voice heralding a new beginning. It evokes a melody that is shaped exquisitely by Louie Belogenis, who gives it a striking presence. But Belogenis is an innovator, and as he brings in subtle changes of pitch and direction, he adds an immediacy that is not easy to resist. His “Reflection" ...
