Billy Harper

• 4 1/2 stars music guide

Stunning work from one of the greatest players of the post-Coltrane generation – a classic session recorded overseas in the mid 70s, and one that's filled with soulful expressions from the great Billy Harper! Harper's tenor kicks off the set with an immediately gripping sound – as searing as Pharoah Sanders at his Impulse best – but driven on by searching, soaring modal rhythms that are all Billy's own – the kind of grooves he first forged with Max Roach, then really expanded on when given the freedom of a record like this.

PERSONNEL:

Billy Harper - (tenor saxophone)
Everett Hollins - (trumpet)
Fred Hersch - (piano)
Louie "Mbiki" Spears - (bass)
Horace Arnold - (drums)

Recorded at Barigozzi Studio in Milano, Italy on January 24 & 25, 1979

TRACKS:

A1 Priestess ......... 13:10
A2 Calvary ......... 7:32

B1 Illumination ...... 21:59