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And Now ...

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Berlin Erfahrung; Rumi Tales; 911-544; Light; Ism Schism
The Revolutionary Ensemble: And Now ...

by Jerry D'Souza
The recordings the Revolutionary Music Ensemble made in the '70s were adventurous and daring. Having stamped their credentials, the members of the group went their separate ways before that decade came to a close and pursued individual careers. Now, more than twenty years after their groundbreaking recording of The People's Republic, they stir the waters once ...
The Psyche

Label: Mutable Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Invasion (Cooper) 26:15;
Hu-man (Jones) 8:04;
Collegno (Jenkins) 13:00.
And Now...

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1 Berlin Erfahrung 5:25;
2 Rumi Tales 6:55;
3 911-544 20:53;
4 Light 7:48;
5 Ism Schism 9:22.
Revolutionary Ensemble: And Now...

by Andrey Henkin
When the Revolutionary Ensemble reformed at the last Vision Festival after 27 years, it was a special occasion, a novelty. It was felt that this could be more than a one-off reunion and that the band that spearheaded the chamber jazz movement could make a more permanent go of it. To that end, Pi Recordings brought ...
Revolutionary Ensemble: The Psyche

by Rex Butters
When Leroy Jenkins brought his AACM ways with him to New York, he altered that city’s musical landscape forever. Bringing the New Thing as the Chicagoans played it, he formed a trio that survived through the ‘70’s. On bass, Sirone brought an authority and skill level that landed him in Cecil Taylor’s band. Multi-dimensional drummer Jerome ...
Revolutionary Ensemble: The Psyche

by Andrey Henkin
When the Revolutionary Ensemble formed in the early ‘70s, the New Thing in jazz, disbursed mainly through the ESP label, had flamed brightly, been co-opted by political influences and developed into a more violent strain of free improvisation, a move from which it has yet to recover. What was happening concurrently was a total acceptance of ...