A Rite For All Souls (Live) by Mark Harvey Group, released on America's Musicworks in 2020.

"On October 31, 1971, with American democracy in turmoil, The Mark Harvey Group (Mark Harvey, brasswinds; Peter H. Bloom, woodwinds; and their late colleagues Craig Ellis and Michael Standish, percussion) composed and performed A Rite for All Souls at Boston’s venerable Old West Church – a powerful aesthetic response to the times. A Rite for All Souls was a single extended musical work of instrumental movements punctuated by brief recitations. The diversity of sonic experiences, the musical and poetic interactions, the theatrical gestures and stagecraft all combined to create a profound experience. A superb live concert recording of the 1971 performance, lost for nearly 5 decades, was re-discovered in 2018.,, - All About Jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXk9g4cWtqM&list=RDRXk9g4cWtqM&start_radio=1

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Boston Creative Jazz Scene 1970 - 1983 , released on Cultures Of Soul Records in 2016

...In the 1970s Boston was a fertile ground for a very creative jazz scene. Small, independent venues ranging from lofts to churches to clubs opened up to support this thriving backdrop while jazz musicians set up their own labels...The music on this album is culled from rare private press Jazz LPs that were pressed in small quantities of a few hundred for members of the band and the local jazz community at the time. The music here runs the gamut of funky jazz from Arnie Cheatham's 'Thing' to the deep free jazz of the Phill Musra Group or the spoken word brilliance of Worlds, to the complex metric structures of Stanton Davis' 'Play Sleep.' This is a collection of very rare eccentric jazz pieces for your enjoyment!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_5HuUy3LQ&list=RDmv_5HuUy3LQ&start_radio=1

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