Julius Hemphill
Dogon A.D.
Arista/Freedom (US) 1977
AL 1028 (LP) w/company’s inner sleeve.
sleeve : EX(CO, sligthly wear on corner.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly surface noises.)
This is the first leader album by American saxophonist Julius Hemphill, who organised the art collective Black Artists Group in St. Louis in 1968, and who explored avant-garde jazz with Oliver Lake, Luther Thomas and Hamiet Bluiett, and spent the 1970s in the New York free jazz scene, participating in numerous sessions. Quartet with Bakida E.J. Carroll (tp), Abdul Wadud (cello) and Philip Wilson (ds). A1, with its supremely cool alto and trumpet releasing thrilling melodies backed by funkiness-filled drums and cello layered with minimalist phrases, and B1, a 15-minute-plus session in which earthy flute interplay depicts an untamed frontier. Both are ethno-free jazz masterpieces that express the unique cosmic vision of the Dogon people in the Bandiagara mountains of central Mali, Africa. It is an Afro-minimalism that has some visible similarities with electric-era Miles Davis. This is a major distribution disc released in 1977 on Arista/Freedom.
A1: Dogon A.D.
A1: Dogon A.D.
B1: The Painter