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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