AFRIC / BRASS

5 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE
 

This release presents the complete original LP Africa / Brass (Impulse AS-6) plus all of the music from its sequel The Africa Brass Sessions, Vol. 2 (AS-9273) and the remaining song from the sessions, “The Damned Don’t Cry”. Africa / Brass marks one of Coltrane’s most ambitious projects (with respect to both instrumentation and rhythmic variation), as well as his first collaboration with the great Eric Dolphy, who not only played reeds here but also orchestrated and conducted all but one of the tracks.

PERSONNEL:

JOHN COLTRANE, tenor sax
McCOY TYNER, piano
REGGIE WORKMAN, bass &
ELVIN JONES, drums

Plus on 2, 4-5 & 7: Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard (tp), Julian Priester, Charles “Majeed” Greenlee (eup)
Julius Watkins, Donald Corrado, Bob Northern, Jimmy Buffington, Robert Swisshelm (fhrn)
Bill Barber (tba), Eric Dolphy (as, b-cl, fl), Garvin Bushell (reeds),
Pat Patrick (bar), Paul Chambers (b).
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, May 23, 1961.

On 1, 3 & 6: Booker Little (tp), Britt Woodman (tb), Carl Bowman (eup)
Julius Watkins, Donald Corrado, Bob Northern, Robert Swisshelm (fhrn)
Bill Barber (tba), Eric Dolphy (as, b-cl, fl), Pat Patrick (bar), Art Davis (b on “Africa” only).
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, June 7, 1961.
 

All tracks orchestrated & conducted by ERIC DOLPHY (Except “The Damned Don’t Cry”, arranged & conducted by Romulus Franceschini)

INCLUDES 20-PAGE BOOKLET

Tracks

01. Africa
02. Greensleeves
03. Blues Minor
04. Song Of The Undergound Railroad
05. Greensleeves [Alt. Tk]
06. Africa [Alt Tk]
07. The Damned Don’t Cry

Total Time: 74:58