Billy Bang’s Survival Ensemble: Black Man's Blues / New York Collage [Vinyl 1LP, limited edition 500]

Avant Jazz / Free Improvisation / Avant-Garde
premiera polska: 2012-01-23
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opakowanie: Singlefoldowe etui
opis:
Editor's info:
Violinist Billy Bang made his recording debut as a leader with the Survival Ensemble, the first working band he ever led, on New York Collage in 1979. Bang, saxophonists Bilal Abdur Rahman and Henry Warner, bassist William Parker, and percussionists Rashid Bakr and Khuwana John Fuller played incendiary free jazz more clearly indebted to the New York avant-garde of the preceding decade than any album Bang would record again. The music's urgency and passion arose from the exhilaration of artistic self-discovery shared by everyone in the group, and the intensity of their need to express their feelings.
This album really is a loft era classic. Proudly flaunting its New York roots, it insists that music based on the innovations of Coltrane, Ayler, Taylor, could grow in new directions, absorb new influences, and engage contemporary political realities.
Ed Hazel

muzycy:
Billy Bang: violin, poetry, bells, shaker, percussion
Bilal Abdur Rahman: tenor and soprano saxes, bull horn, percussion
William Parker: bass
Rashid Bakr: drums

utwory:
Side A
1. Ganges / Enchantment / Tapestry

Side B
1. Ganges / Enchantment / Tapestry (continues)
2. Black Man's Blues

wydano: 2011
nagrano: Recorded 29th May 1977 at A Day in Solidarity with Soweto: A Fund Raiser, Harlem Fight-Back, 1 East 125th St., New York
more info: www.nobusinessrecords.com