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Violinist Billy Bang made his recording debut as a leader with theSurvival Ensemble, the first working band he ever led, on New YorkCollage in 1979. Bang, saxophonists Bilal Abdur Rahman and Henry Warner,bassist William Parker, and percussionists Rashid Bakr and Khuwana JohnFuller played incendiary free jazz more clearly indebted to the NewYork avant-garde of the preceding decade than any album Bang wouldrecord again. The music’s urgency and passion arose from theexhilaration of artistic self-discovery shared by everyone in the group,and the intensity of their need to express their feelings.
This album really is a loft era classic. Proudly flaunting its New Yorkroots, it insists that music based on the innovations of Coltrane,Ayler, Taylor, could grow in new directions, absorb new influences, andengage contemporary political realities.
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ARTISTS
Billy Bang (violin, poetry, bells, shaker, percussion); Bilal Abdur Rahman (tenor and soprano saxes, bull horn, percussion); William Parker (bass); Khuwana Fuller (congas); Rashid Bakr (drums) |
TRACKS
Side A:
1. Ganges/Enchantment/Tapestry
Side B:
1. Ganges/Enchantment/Tapestry (Continues)
2. Black Man's Blues |
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