Rashied Ali Quintet: First Time Out: Live at Slugs 1967
Rashied Ali Quintet: First Time Out: Live at Slugs 1967
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Rashied Ali Quintet
Label: Survival Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 881626557815
Genre: Jazz
Preserved on two reels in Rashied Ali's tape archive, this set has remained unreleased until now. This document may have been only the second time that Ali had led a band in public. The band membership is stellar and unprecedented, and the tunes they play predate all known segments of Ali's career as a composer or bandleader.Ali was still officially on the job as Coltrane's drummer when he assembled this cast for perhaps as little as two sets of music in the Spring of 1967. It appears to be the earliest documented activity for the late tenor saxophonist Ramon Morris, who had thoroughly absorbed the lessons of John Coltrane, post 1961. Trumpeter Dewey Johnson (who, like Morris, died months before this release) had his peak moment of fame two years prior, appearing with Coltrane on the orchestral Free Jazz masterpiece Ascension. Pianist Stanley Cowell was just emerging as a distinctive voice among the open-minded 'Young Lions' of the day, on his way from Marion Brown's quartet to groups led by Max Roach. Bassist Reggie Johnson was already familiar with Slugs; he had worked there, alongside Ali and Cowell, across the previous two years. Little or no announcement heralded this gig; with the reputation of Slugs as a musician's bar and meeting place for drug dealers off Avenue C, it may well be that only the neighborhood regulars and Ali's associates (might Trane himself have been there?) would have known about it. But the players came to burn: They crackled and glowed in long treatments of Rashied's loosely-structured pieces. This stereo recording gives us a front row seat-with all the grit and mayhem from those heady times. Meticulous remastering from the original tapes has polished this bit of East Village verité into a riveting, glistening-but-raw pearl from the black underground of the Sixties. 2xLP gatefold tip-on jacket.
Tracks:
1.1 Composition 1 [Title Unknown]
1.2 Ballade
1.3 Study for As-Salaam Alikum
1.4 Composition 2 [Title Unknown]
