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№Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown (1978)
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1. Down San Diego Way
2. Lenox Avenue Breakdown
3. Slidin' Through
4. Odessa
Personnel:
Arthur Blythe (alto saxophone)
Bob Stewart (tuba)
James Newton (flute)
James "Blood" Ulmer (guitar)
Cecil McBee (bass)
Jack DeJohnette (drums)
Guillermo Franco (percussion)
A great mix of talent here. If you haven't heard this you should have a listen!
Amazon.com
You could easily call this reissue a lost treasure, as it came and went after its 1979 release, not even seeing much light after bandleader Arthur Blythe and his six colleagues reached critical acclaim and success. Blythe counts this loose session as a paean to Harlem, where the assemblage of sounds and rhythms along Lenox Avenue translates into an amalgam not unlike the mix of James "Blood" Ulmer's funk-painted guitar strum backed by the twin engines of drummer Jack DeJohnette and percussionist Guillermo Franco, each of whom makes a sky-crying racket. They do so, surely, in a fit of inspiration, sitting as they are behind a potent frontline: Blythe on alto sax; James Newton on flute; and Bob Stewart on tuba. A tuba on the frontline? Well, in truth, these chaps are all playing the frontline, really. Newton's so revolutionary on the flute that his Rahsaan Roland Kirk-isms make for great rhythm, and his intricate Eric Dolphy-isms cut sharp harmony. Blythe takes his notes seriously as little living things, but his art is in the web work and the melodies. Stewart plays the chameleon, doing tempo a while and then showing slippery riffs galore to the band. Very little in jazz--much less major-label jazz, which this was--around 1979 could match this recording. And now it's back. --Andrew Bartlett
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