Wadada Leo Smith and Jack DeJohnette

[Lazaro Vega]

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32820

[paul secor]

Fine record! Some of the strongest playing I've heard from Wadada Leo Smith.

[Lazaro Vega]

http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2009/06/...dejohnette.html

[JSngry]

Eicher nixed the notion in '79? WTF?

[clifford_thornton]

Looking forward to hearing this.

[CJ Shearn]

I'd like to get this sometime soon. I've heard a bit on Rhapsody and it's fantastic, I haven't heard much of Wadada at all and wanted to check it out. Plus anything with Jack is a plus for me.

[clifford_thornton]

The Nessa reissue of Procession of the Great Ancestry is excellent also. When Chuck gets Spirit Catcher reissued this fall, pick that one up too. Then you might also want the Kabell recordings and some of the Golden Quartet.

[king ubu]

Sorry Jim, took me a couple of days to decide if I should reply or not, but that Eicher bashing gets so old, you know... the man's got his ideas, he's been pursuing them for many years with great stamina and often superb and enlightening results. If you don't like his product, why bother, buy Black Saint and Soul Note and Nessa and India Navigation and what do I know... that'll be more to your liking, I guess...

Also, why do you suppose Eicher actually nixed it? Maybe the session went bad, maybe the agendas of Smith and DeJohnette didn't allow for it actually to happen, maybe someone's tame rattlesnake got ill and hence the session had to be cancled... or some such.

Whatever...