Shaw, Woody - Blackstone Legacy CD
SKU
28-CMY762728.2
Great, early, electric jazz/jazz-rock album featuring a great cast and now available for a full third off its original price. Pretty essential for fans & followers of the genre!
"Originally a two-fer on vinyl and now on one CD, Shaw's debut as a leader is one of the first "free bop" sessions, in many ways his answer to Bitches Brew. The trumpeter's ensemble extracts dense, energetic, meaty collective sounds based in pure improvisation with a skeleton of a rhythmic framework to expound upon. Saxophonists Gary Bartz & Bennie Maupin, electric pianist George Cables, twin bassists Ron Carter and Clint Houston, and drummer Lenny White respond to Shaw's heavy direction, making for some of the most kinetic jazz heard in that period of early fusion...Truly a landmark recording, and a pivot point in the history of post-modern music."-Michael G. Nastos/All About Jazz
- LabelContemporary
- UPC025218767828