Black Artist Group - For Peace and Liberty: In Paris, December 1972 CD
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05-WWSCD 091CD
Oliver Lake – sax
Baikida Carroll - trumpet
Floyd LeFlore - trumpet
Joseph Bowie - trombone
Charles 'Bobo' Shaw – drums
BAG are one of the missing links (unless you own their insanely rare album from 50 years ago) of African-American creative / improvisational music and it’s great to finally hear them!
“The release of BAG's first album since 1973, "For Peace and Liberty" was recorded in Paris in Dec. 1972 when the musicians had recently arrived from St Louis.
BAG only released one album during their existence, the cult classic "In Paris, Aries 1973". This long-lost performance, recorded at Maison de l'ORTF in optimal conditions just a few months previous to the 1973 recording, was thought lost until recently unearthed from the vaults of INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel). Here the group unleashes an incandescent 35-minute set mixing free improvisation and spiritual jazz with funk grooves.
Released in partnership with the band and INA, the album features sound remastered from the original tapes, plus a 20-page booklet featuring words by Oliver Lake, Joseph Bowie, Baikida Carroll and Bobo Shaw's and Floyd LeFlore's daughters as well as extensive liner notes by BAG scholar Benjamin Looker and previously unseen photos by cult French photographer Philippe Gras.”
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