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Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble

Funky Donkey

By Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble

Label: Atavistic Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Funky Donkey; Una New York; Intensity.

Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble: Funky Donkey

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2001

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 ...

Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble: Funky Donkey

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 2001

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 ...