Chico Freeman “The Outside Within”

Chico Freeman
The Outside Within
India Navigation/Trio Records (Japan) 1981
PAP-25017 (LP) w/insert.
sleeve : VG+(SPSE: 6cm crack on bottom, some wear on edge and corner.)
media : EX-/EX-(some slightly noises. side A has two small and slightly wear that does not affect to sounds. the silent part between B1 and B2 has two light click noises.)

Album released in 1981 by American tenor saxophonist Chico Freeman, who has produced many masterpieces in his career, from avant/free to ethnic jazz and standards, and is highly regarded as a rare groove artist. A quartet with such virtuosos as Jack DeJohnette (ds), Cecil McBee (b) and John Hicks (p). Side A is a 19:40 minute session with a consistent groove from start to finish. B1 is an excellent slow number with a mysterious introduction where Freeman's low tenor and McBee's bass create a deep world, which was also performed again in 1983 in a different album. B2 is an odd time tune with a similarly mystic and mysterious atmosphere. McBee's bass is superb, anyway. This is a Japanese pressing released in the same year as original US pressing.

A1: Undercurrent

B1: The Search