NEW YORK ART QUARTET & LEROI JONES UK FONTANTA LABEL STL 5521 STEREO FROM 1965
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NEW YORK ART QUARTET & LEROI JONES UK FONTANTA LABEL STL 5521 STEREO FROM 1965
For the more open minded listener. Ground breaking music at the time. FROM THE ORIGINAL ESP - DISK.
VERY GOOD CONDITION DISC AND SLEEVE
Tracklist
A1 Short
A2 Sweet / Black Dada Nihilismus Vocals [Recitation] – LeRoi Jones
B1 No. 6
B2 Rosmosis
Bass – Lewis Worrell Percussion – Milford Graves Saxophone – John Tchicai Trombone – Roswell Rudd
This adventurous, short-lived quartet only made three albums in its two-year heyday. The best and most easily obtained (although that's relative) is the classic 1964 self-titled free jazz excursion on the ESP label. The unique front-line horn arrangement of trombonist Roswell Rudd and Danish alto saxophonist John Tchicai weaves rapid intricate lines around Lewis Worrell's bass and the frenzied drums of Milford Graves. Poet Leroi Jones (now Amiri Baraka) is added to the quartet for his revolutionary/militant spoken word diatribe "Black Dada Nihilismus." While it may sound like an intrusion to some listeners, it must be kept in mind that Jones was an active participant in the early avant-garde scene of New York, making his contribution to this disc vital in capturing the radical surroundings in which the music thrived.
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