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Archie Shepp meets Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio – Conversations
Archie Shepp meets Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio – Conversations Delmark DE 514 Compact Disc (1998) Conversations marks a relatively rare studio appearance and a first-time collaboration with the Ritual Trio by tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp, a fabled instigator of the ’60s avant-garde. Prior to this album, Shepp has made only three recordings this decade, and…
Eddie Johnson – Love You Madly
Eddie Johnson – Love You Madly Delmark DE 515 Compact Disc (1999) When you’re from Chicago, play the tenor saxophone for a living and come out of the ’40s, you’re expected to ruffle the air like Ammons and Stitt, like Griff and Cliff, like the long-running Von Freeman and so many other Windy City notables…
Ken Vandermark’s Sound In Action Trio – Design In Time
Ken Vandermark’s Sound In Action Trio – Design In Time Delmark DE 516 Compact Disc (1999) Ken Vandermark was recognized for an astounding decade of music-making by receiving the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. He helped to revive Chicago’s reputation as a hub of improvised music and to attract a new, young audience to adventurous…
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Freedom Jazz Dance
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Freedom Jazz Dance Delmark DE 517 Compact Disc (1999) Ethnic Heritage Ensemble is Kahil El’Zabar, drums/percussion; Joseph Bowie, trombone/percussion; Ernest ‘Khabeer’ Dawkins, tenor and alto sax/percussion. The EHE has been about two horns and drums for twenty years but for this CD they are joined by special guest Fareed Haque who…
Malachi Thompson – Rising Daystar
Malachi Thompson – Rising Daystar Delmark DE 518 Compact Disc (1999) Hard bop is where trumpeter Malachi Thomspon hangs his stylistic hat. You can hear his hero Lee Morgan’s clean, punchy melodicism and blues sensibility in everything he plays. But as the name of his band, The Freebop Band, tells you, his bop is free–free…
Chicago Underground Trio – Flamethrower
Chicago Underground Trio – Flamethrower Delmark DE 521 Compact Disc (2000) For the past year the Chicago Underground has been turning the heads of critics and fans across the country with their unique sound that balances free jazz with electronica and tuneful post-bop compositions. The group consists of four of the busiest members of Chicago’s…
Lin Halliday – Airegin
Lin Halliday – Airegin Delmark DE 523 Compact Disc (2000) Lin Halliday was embraced by his fans as a hero. That was especially true in Chicago, where the Arkansas native rode into town in 1980 after years of scuffling in places like Hollywood, New York and Nashville and paying his dues in the employ of…
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble – Jo’berg Jump
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble – Jo’berg Jump Delmark DE 524 Compact Disc (2000) Jo’burg Jump is named after the enthusiastic response that audiences in Johannesburg, South Africa and Mozambique had to the music of the New Horizons Ensemble. Leader Ernest Dawkins said “They were literally jumping up and down, dancing on tables. I was…