30 October 2007

Rashied Ali Quartet - New Directions In Modern Music 1971


Ali, who replaced Elvin Jones in John Coltrane's band, formed this quartet after Coltrane's death. On this session Fred Simmons was standing in for the regular pianist, Don Pullen. The style of musically carried on from where Coltrane left off - high energy stuff, with lots of drumming and long solos.

Fred Simmons - piano
Stafford L James - bass violin
Carlos Ward - alto saxophone and flute
Rashied Ali - percussion

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15 comments:

  1. Boromir30 October 2007 at 15:50:00 CET

    Link:

    massmirror.com/ac106a9a315cdde52699e980806c9c01.html

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  2. Anonymous30 October 2007 at 18:36:00 CET

    This is a great record! Especially for anyone who missed it first time around. Thanks for refreshing our memories Boromir!

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  3. Anonymous1 November 2007 at 03:10:00 CET

    Love this one!

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  4. Anonymous4 November 2007 at 16:40:00 CET

    Hey guys,

    I didn't know exactly where to post this, but former Church-9er's (and everyone interested in free jazz) might like to see — at least the cover of — Marzette Watt's fabled record on Savoy ... here:

    http://tangerine.at.webry.info/200705/article_3.html

    Now if only the music from this record would pop up on the internet! So many blogs have put out a request to hear it. Some day, some day.

    Oh yes — all the Ali recordings from his label are wonderful. I managed to find my copies at (gulp) Wal-Mart of all places ... (!?)

    Let's keep on the lookout for the Watts!

    FW

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  5. 10096 November 2007 at 03:57:00 CET

    FW--

    I assume that "Robert Fews" on the Savoy is actually Bobby Few? For some reason it escaped me that he was involved in these sessions. The couple of tracks I have heard have not blown me away, though (particularly the addition of [completely needless] vocals on "Lonely Woman").

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  6. Anonymous6 November 2007 at 08:31:00 CET

    i hadnt heard this is an amazing record before, so thank you very much. although, for a 'digitally remastered' cd, it doesnt sound as good as i would have thought.

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  7. Anonymous7 November 2007 at 05:56:00 CET

    Brent — yeah, it'll probably be a little anti-climactic when I finally hear the Watts session. You're right: "Lonely Woman" does not need vocals!

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  8. The Ghost of Jerry Reed8 November 2007 at 14:08:00 CET

    Thanks for the Ali! Carlos Ward sounds great. A lyrical and soulful player, but not afriad to "noodle around" as well! Just wish the engineer would've turned up the levels on Stafford's bass!

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  9. ag10 November 2007 at 17:33:00 CET

    I never cared much for Ali, when I first heard him, I thought it was stupid of Coltrane to let Elvin go and stick to this guy, who can only beat those sticks all around. But then I heard him on the Charles Gayle classic "Touchin' On Trane" and I thought - where did all those good things come from? Now I'm a bit confused about Ali, I'm still not sure I like him, but I'm just always curious what's he like with other people.
    Thanks for this.

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  10. Unknown23 October 2008 at 10:13:00 CEST

    Thanks for all the great music posted on this blog! Unfortuantely the dl link for Rashied's album has expired, so if You were so kind to make a re up (or, if re-issued, the information where is it possible to buy it), I would be delighted.
    Greetings from Warsaw,
    Olo

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  11. Anonymous26 February 2013 at 21:46:00 CET

    would love a re-up on this. missed by a few years!

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  12. jim27 March 2016 at 05:59:00 CEST

    any chance for reposting this please!

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  13. kinabalu27 March 2016 at 16:04:00 CEST

    New link:

    Adrive

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  14. jim28 March 2016 at 06:31:00 CEST

    thank you kinabalu

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  15. Tiê Felix19 March 2019 at 22:09:00 CET

    Thanks for link!

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