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THE MUSIC ENSEMBLE
roar 03 CD
The first documentation of this important free improvising group,
featuring Roger Baird, Billy Bang, Malik Baraka, Daniel Carter, William
Parker, and Herb Kahn. Existing during the heyday of NYC's Loft
Scene, their name has often been cited as a crucial stage in the development
of its members -- the seeds of such current ensembles as Other Dimensions
In Music and Test can be found here -- but their singular music has
gone largely unheard, save by those who were present at their concerts.
This CD has been compiled from archival tapes recorded by Roger Baird;
one complete performance from Brooklyn's Kingsborough College,
on 24 April 1974, and excerpts from a concert at the Holy Name School
Auditorium, on 15 February 1975. Packaged in a mini-LP gatefold sleeve,
with liner notes by Parker, Bang, Baird, and Carter, paintings by
Marilyn Sontag, and a reproduction of the poster for one of the shows,
this is the recording debut of one of jazz's greatest "lost"
groups.
"A slice of musically important history"
- Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly
"Billy Bang and the others
used the AACM/Art Ensemble model of a jazz collective to open up sounds
that were even less connected to European musical traditions than
the Chicagoans. Spontaneous music to get lost within." - Eddie
Flowers, Slippytown
"A welcome souvenir of a terribly
important and underdocumented time and place in the music" - John
Chacona, One Final Note
"It's arresting music, well
worth hearing as a harbinger of some of the members' more recent
work." - Stuart Broomer, Coda
"Thankfully documents
like this disc still surface and circulate, caulking gaps in a lineage
that, decades old, continues to diversify and grow." - Derek Taylor,
Cadence
"If you're familiar with their later work,
you owe it to yourself to check this one out, and if you're just
starting in on post-ESP free jazz, you can't afford not to."
- Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic
"So pure
and incredibly powerful that it could easily bring a grown man to
tears." - Mats Gustafsson, The Broken Face
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