CHARLES BOBO SHAW / HUMAN ARTS ENSEMBLE – Junk Trap (LP-1978)

Label: Black Saint – BSR 0021

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Italy / Released: 1978

Style: Free Jazz, Fusion

Recorded in May 1978 at GRS Studios, Milano, Italy

Cover [Cover Art], Photography By – Giuseppe Pino

Design [Cover] – "Gigi" Barbieri

Engineer – "Michel" Carlo Assalini

Producer – Giacomo Pellicciotti

Producer [Assistant] – Walter Prati

Matrix / Runout (Side A Runout): BSR 0021-A-78 I △

Matrix / Runout (Side B Runout): BSR 0021-B-78 I △

A1 - Beyond The New Horizon .................................................................. 7:42

A2 - Night Dreamer .................................................................................. 10:57

A3 - Brown Rock City ................................................................................ 7:25

B1 - Skiwee ............................................................................................... 6:30

B2 - Junk Trap ........................................................................................... 9:15

B3 - Electric Two ....................................................................................... 6:25

B4 - Sequence ........................................................................................... 2:29

Luther Thomas – alto saxophone

Joseph Bowie – trombone

James Emery – guitar

John Lindberg – acoustic /electric bass

Charles Bobo Shaw – drums, percussion, bugle

A wonderfully focused record from drummer Charles Bobo Shaw -- a set that shows the new fire his music had gained in the latter part of the 70s! The lineup still strongly shows Shaw's roots -- a creative combo that features Joseph Bowie on trombone, Luther Thomas on alto sax, James Emery on guitar, and John Lindberg on bass -- and there's a nice sense of swing amidst the freedom, a rhythmic pulse that comes especially strongly from the bass and drums, and which reminds us of some of Thomas' best moments in this mode. The set's a great example of the way that 70s groups like this could work with a great sense of freedom, but still keep things grooving too.

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THE HUMAN ARTS ENSEMBLE – The Human Arts Ensemble Live Vol. I (LP-1978)

Label: Circle Records – RK 23578/9
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album; Country: Germany - Released: 1978
Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
Recorded live at "De Groote Luxe", Tilburg, Holland, May 23, 1978.

Recorded By, Design – Rudolf Kreis

Photography By [Back Cover] – H. L. Lindenmaier

Photography By [Front Cover] – Günter Voss

Producer – Rudolf Kreis

Matrix / Runout (A): F 666 280 A - I

Matrix / Runout (B): F 666 280 B - I

The Human Arts Ensemble – The Human Arts Ensemble Live Vol. I

Tracklist :

A1 - Stick Candy Man ........................................................................... 12:06

        Composed By – L. Thomas, M. Roseman

A2 - Concere Natashiah ......................................................................... 9:06

        Composed By – C. Shaw

B1 - Blue Lou ......................................................................................... 5:34

        Composed By – J. Lindberg, L. Thomas

B2 - Let's Do Six-Eight ......................................................................... 10:26

        Composed By – C. Shaw

Personnel :
CHARLES BOBO SHAW – drums
LUTHER THOMAS – alto saxophone
JOHN LINDBERG – bass

 

The Human Arts Ensemble was a musical and theatrical cooperative founded in St. Louis, MO, in 1971 by free jazz musicians who had been associated AACM and BAG (Black Artist's Group). Around 1970, public funding began to dry up for arts organizations that were suspected of having ties to radical political groups, and drummer Charles Bobo Shaw had the idea of creating a new artistic co-operative that was open to any person without regard to race. The resulting Human Arts Ensemble was thus able to proceed within a radical political agenda and pursue its unique brand of guerilla theater, yet get the public support it needed to do so.

The Human Arts Ensemble ultimately proved an important training ground for jazz musicians who were interested in free improvisation. Among musicians who spent some time jamming with The Human Arts Ensemble were Luther Thomas, Joseph Bowie, Marty Ehrlich, John Lindberg, and even a young John Zorn, along with more established artists such as Lester Bowie and Oliver Lake. The album Under the Sun, recorded in 1973, appeared on the Arista/Freedom label in 1975 to wide critical acclaim and even some decent sales despite its avant-garde orientation. Part of the appeal of Under the Sun was its blending of funk grooves with free improvisation. The Human Arts Ensemble continued to present elaborate musical pageants in the St. Louis area until 1977. At that time, part of the key membership relocated to New York, with others electing to stay behind in St. Louis. The group existed only briefly in New York, as Joseph Bowie ultimately became more deeply involved in forming his band, Defunkt, and the remaining Human Arts Ensemble members drifted off to other pursuits.


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JOHN LINDBERG ENSEMBLE – A Tree Frog Tonality (2000) [Repost]

Label: Between The Lines – BTL 008, EFA – EFA 10178-2
Format: CD, Album; Country: Germany; Released: 2000; Style: Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Re Design by ART&JAZZ Studio – 2010
Recorded at Studio der Musikuniversität Graz, March 27th and 28th, 2000 


Review By GLENN ASTARITA,
Published: November 1, 2000

With A Tree Frog Tonality, it becomes easily discernible that we are listening to a union of seasoned modern jazz experts who demonstrate their respective crafts with cunning artistry and inspiring resolve. Bassist John Lindberg is arguably one of the finest acoustic bassists on this modern jazz globe as his credits and resume reads like an unending shopping list. On this new release, Lindberg performs with his peers under the moniker of the “ John Lindberg Ensemble ” for a radiant set emanating from studio sessions recorded in March 2000 during a European tour.

The proceedings commence with the three-part “ Thanksgiving Suite ” , where Lindberg and Larry Ochs, here performing on sopranino sax, pursue dainty choruses atop staid undercurrents, whereas the duo also initiates a bit of melodrama in concert with invigorating spurts of emotion. Essentially the “ Thanksgiving Suite ” is a strong vehicle for the proverbial, let ’ s-introduce-the-band sequence yet it is quite evident that this strategy is not implemented or perhaps implied as a means for parody or traditionalism. Drummer Andrew Cyrille and Lindberg set poetry in motion on Part II – Mellow T, while Part III – Dreaming At, establishes the presence of trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith as the quartet launches into a lightly swinging yet circuitous path on the piece titled, Four Fathers. Here, Lindberg steers the flow with pronounced ostinatos and springy walking bass lines as Cyrille demonstrates his mastery of understatement by providing the rhythmic nuance with such control and precision, you ’ d think he was tapping his sticks on eggshells.

The band intimates a cool, sleek vibe with a hybrid Bop/Swing motif on Good To Go, as the musicians emit an air of suspense or bewilderment due to their shrewd implementation of multihued tonalities to coincide with a fruitful harmonic relationship.

Ultimately, The “ John Lindberg Ensemble ” provides the necessary ingredients for a mantra that befits many years of combined professionalism, savvy and superb musicianship yet it ’ s all about distinctive stylists converging for an ingenious meeting of the musical minds. Highly recommended!

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