Craft Recordings
At the time of these sessions the musicians themselves were celebrating the relatively recent advent of the long-playing record.
These jazz albums are splendid representations of the first full decade of LPs and of stereo recording as well.
As usual with Craft Recordings reissues, these lps are impeccably produced: the silence of the recording before the music starts is almost startling, but it’s the clear sound of what follows that is most impressive.
Projects such as Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium extricate the resilient voice of the people from the cacophony of current ideological intervention.
Ornette Coleman turned to me and said, “You know, you can never really be out of tune. You are always in tune with something.”
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