Why Not? is an album by American saxophonist Marion Brown. It was recorded in October 1966 in New York City, and was released in 1968 on the ESP-Disk label...

Clifford Allen remarked on All About Jazz:

"The most immediately striking thing about Why Not? is its utter and complete dedication to both wistful, romantic lyricism and the edgy, insistent 'cry.' There are few recordings in this music which balance hunger and fullness so well."

"At the corner of the Rue Washington, near the Arc de Triomphe, there was a huge publicity poster depicting the red and blue Bonnet Phrygien, the headwear of participants in the French Revolution. The poster had a 'Revolutionnaire' sign and was a teaser for a publicity campaign for an undisclosed product. Berger thought it might be worth a try to have photos taken of Marion in front of the colorful poster.."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPgqDUPXc3I

#MarionBrown #StanleyCowell #Sirone #RashiedAli #FreeJazz #ESPDisk #Jazz #Music

On This Night is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse! Records in 1965. The album contains tracks recorded by Shepp, bassist David Izenzon and drummer J. C. Moses in March 1965 and with a larger band in August of that year that included vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Henry Grimes and percussionists Ed Blackwell, Joe Chambers and Rashied Ali.

The AllMusic review by Al Campbell states: "Among the highlights are a passionate reading of Duke Ellington's 'In a Sentimental Mood' and the title piece, a moving tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois, featuring the haunting soprano vocalist Christine Spencer employing a distinct 20th century classical influence, with Shepp on piano. Shepp is the solo horn on these dates, playing at peak form." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuY_Y3c9-C8&list=PLfyg_SuY7fEIGd2sc44f_90pPZ20QG2K6&index=1

#ArchieShepp #FreeJazz #DavidIzenzon #HenryGrimes #BobbyHutcherson #EdBlackwell #RashiedAli #ImpulseRecords #Jazz #WEBDuBois #Ellington

Getting toward the end of the month....

OK, here's something different that might be odd to some ears: "Saturn," from "Interstellar Space." Things to listen to: (1) how there's cellular time, but not a pulse; (2) how Rashied responds to John's phrasing; (3) how John works the different registers of the tenor, and the overtones. A different vocabulary.

#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackMusic
#20thCenturyMusic
#JohnColtrane (tenor sax)
#RashiedAli (drumming)

https://youtu.be/kY0wrGh-9Sw

Marion Brown Quartet is an album by American saxophonist Marion Brown, his debut as a leader. It was recorded in November 1965 in New York City, and was released in 1966 on the ESP-Disk label. The album features Brown on alto saxophone, Alan Shorter on trumpet, Bennie Maupin on tenor saxophone, Reggie Johnson and Ronnie Boykins on bass, and Rashied Ali on drums.

Writing for Point of Departure, David Grundy described Brown as having a sound that "tended towards the abstrusely melodic, with a marked lyrical tendency offset by an astringent bite that could peel the paint off any wall", ...Ali's drums function like sparklers: they crackle and glow; Brown smears and drags high notes around careful, angular melodic figures, while Shorter is at first loud and declarative, before simmering to buzzing smears, as if someone were wailing with their hand over their mouth."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1RWMN5rkMk&list=RDS1RWMN5rkMk&start_radio=1

#marionbrown #rashiedali #alanshorter #espdisk #benniemaupin #freejazz #ronnieboykins

New vinyl on the wall:

- Giovanni di Domenico & Rutger Zuydervelt - Painting a Picture/Picture a Painting (on Moving Furniture Records https://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/painting-a-picture-picture-a-painting)

- The Bohman Brothers - Room Service (on Rural Isolation Project
https://thebohmanbrothersroomservice.bandcamp.com/album/room-service)

- Purple Trap (Laswell, Haino,Ali) - The Stone (on Karlrecords
https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-stone)

#giovannididomenico #rutgerzuydervelt
#thebohmanbrothers #BillLaswell #KeijiHaino #rashiedali

Arthur Rhames!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svagTZt-GCA

#music #improvisation #ArthurRhames #RashiedAli

This hefty, intense duo recording by John Coltrane and Rashied Ali demands full attention to fully appreciate its greatness.

It's funny reading that Rashied Ali didn't even know it was going to be a duo recording when he showed up at the studio. He kind of handled that just fine...

#JohnColtrane #RashiedAli #jazz #freeJazz #improvisation #CD

Rashied Ali/Leroy Jenkins - "Swift Are The Winds of Life" (2024/ recorded 1975)

#NowPlaying #RashiedAli #LeroyJenkins #jazz #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

https://rashied-ali.bandcamp.com/album/swift-are-the-winds-of-life