Ended Tuesday and welcomed Wednesday after a swim with Desert Marauders an album by Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol in June 1977 and released on ECM the following year.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

...the final iteration of pianist Art Lande’s Rubisa Patrol quartet, which over its flash-in-the-pan tenure produced a solid, if modest, body of imaginative work. For this recording, Kurt Wortman [is] on drums and provides plenty of adhesive for otherwise free-floating themes and ideas. His stop-and-start playing engages Lande in exciting conversation throughout the groovy opener. At 16 minutes, it is more main course than appetizer, but whets our expectations all the same with its vivid prime directive while offering food for thought via Mark Isham’s serpentine melodies. Bassist Bill Douglass works us back into the swing of things with consummate fortitude.

https://ecmreviews.com/2011/01/29/desert-marauders/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmasi13S5vs

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Rubisa Patrol is an album by American jazz pianist Art Lande recorded in May 1976 and released on ECM later that year. Lande's Rubisa Patrol quartet features trumpeter Mark Isham and rhythm section Bill Douglass and Glenn Cronkhite.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

With Art Lande’s Rubisa Patrol, ECM took a step in a much-heralded direction, one that pushed the scope of its reach even farther..The opening strains of “Celestial Guests–Many Chinas” introduce the dizi, a Chinese bamboo flute, to the ECM instrument bank. Its clarity cuts through our expectations and embraces us with its immediacy. From behind this arresting tonal horizon arises a blazing sun of percussion and lyrical horns. Lande makes things complete by dropping his own potent melodies into this auditory tincture.
A magical album from start to finish, Rubisa is an exercise in atmosphere..."

https://ecmreviews.com/2010/12/24/rubisa-patrol/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_bwyfnTMJw&list=PL_FL9b6e0gdEQEuG8MSgJe1zdNsaRY-7W&index=1

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