And yet more Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra

[mjazzg]

Another new release

https://panafrikanpeoplesarkestra.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-widney-high-december-26th-1971

Rapidly becoming the most documented ensemble of the 70s

[Pim]

I’ve got a lot of Pan African stuff now but not from this period. Interesting song selections too. Not an instant buy but definitely a maybe. 

[clifford_thornton]

'71 is the intriguing factor for me. I'll probably pick it up once Dusty has it.

[Pim]

Equinox is a Coltrane favorite of mine. The Arkestra version sounds pretty cool. The alto sax solo (that ain’t no tenor is it?) sounds awful like the dude doesn’t know how to play. It reminds of how I tried to solo when I was a kid. Will have to wait for more samples I guess. 

[felser]

I agree with the '71 intrigue and the concerns about the sax solo (although it sounds like he's having the time of his live).  I'm surprised how good the sound quality is.  I'd love to see a CD release, but will plan to plunk down my $12 for the download in its absence.

 

 

[JSngry]

Nothing wrong with that alto player that some more work won't fix ...hope that he/she got it done. I like how they have a "there" there, even though it's a long way away at this point.

The trombonist, otoh...even more work to do...but ok then 

Any chance that this is a youth/student band?

[T.D.]

38 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Nothing wrong with that alto player that some more work won't fix ...hope that he/she got it done. I like how they have a "there" there, even though it's a long way away at this point.

The trombonist, otoh...even more work to do...but ok then 

Any chance that this is a youth/student band?

No time right now, but will dig out my copy of The Dark Tree and see if anything is said about the PAPA c. 1971. 

It can't be all youth/students with Butch Morris in the band? Lester Robertson and Linda Hill are names I recognize from later Nimbus recordings (could have been students at the time?). But most of the rest are unfamiliar.

[felser]

Bryant and Brown were regulars, played with Tapscott on 'The Giant Has Awakened' and for years after, but per Jim's observation, the concert was recorded at a high school, and the various horn soloists don't have it together yet.

[JSngry]

The drummer also seems not particularly developed yet either, in spots any way.

[JSngry]

Where y'all seeing the personnel for this one?

[mjazzg]

Scroll to the bottom of the linked Bandcamp page in the first post 

[JSngry]

Ah, initially scrolled past that. Thanks!