12 December 2014

Leroy Jenkins With The New Chamber Jazz Quintet (Geodesic 2010)

Beneath Detroit. The Creative Arts Collective Concert At The Detroit Institute Of Arts, 1979-92
Leroy Jenkins With The New Chamber Jazz Quintet

Incredibly already forgotten.
Geodesic has released only three albums, from what I know, all in 2010. Other were scheduled but never released.

Leroy Jenkins - Violin, Vocals
A.Spencer Barenfield - Guitars, African Harp, Vocals
Tani Tabbal - Drums, Percussion, Balafon, Vocals
Faruq Z. Bey - Tenor Sax, Vocals
Anthony Holland - Alto and Soprano Sax, Vocals
Jaribu Shahid - Bass, Vocals, Wash-tub Bass

CD 1
1. Through the ages Jehovah
2. For players only
3. Butter
4. Grab the fab

CD 2
1. No banks river
2. Collegno
3. A girl named rainbow
4. Finale from score for O

Recorded 1981
all compositions by Leroy Jenkons exept 'A girl named rainbow' by Ornette Coleman

Geodesic 02, CD
released 2010

22 comments:

  1. Thanks. The best Geodesic was the reissue of the long out-of-print Transdimensional Space Window.

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  2. haven't heard jenkins' "through the ages, jehovah" since andrew cyrille's FANTASTIC album "The Navigator." Look forward to hearing the man himself revisiting it here, and all the rest... Thank you!

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  3. Wonderful diggin' Corvimax! anything Faruq i am (more than) willing to try!
    thanks a zillion [:-)

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  4. wow - I was still pretty actively reviewing at that time, and nothing on this label crossed my radar (surprisingly). They must've been very word-of-mouth. Can't wait to hear this.

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  5. apparently I've been sleeping this past month - many, many thanks, man!

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  6. keep on truckin brother, we dont have leroy but we got his works

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  7. I was asleep at the switch for a while there I guess. But I was at this concert, knew/know some of these folks during my Detroit days, and would really love to see a re-up if possible. Please.

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  8. new link
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/83hjk5hmw239l2w/LeroyJenkinswiththeNewChamberJazzQuintet.rar/file

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  9. I bought this double cd when it came and also the two others published by Geodesic. They have planned to publish others references, all around the archival tapes of the creative art collective in Detroit. A recording with Anthony Braxton, another one with Don Pullen and also one Roscoe Mitchell was scheduled but nothing came and the label have obviously stopped its activity. pity

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  10. Didn't say a proper thanks for the re-up, so here it is: Thank you for this re-up! As great as I'd remembered it, and then some.

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