Roswell Rudd

DIGIPACK EDITION

“If we just could have hung on for another year,” Rudd said of both NYAQ and the Jazz Composers Guild, “things could have turned out much differently. Things were about to flip, in a good way. A lot of government programs were starting up that we could have gotten grants from. There was a change in perception about the music that was happening. People were starting to consider it as art. The music was moving out of the bars and coffee houses and into museums and concert halls. But, the Guild lasted long enough to inspire musicians to organize. The Guild laid the groundwork for similar organizations here in America and in Europe – what happened in Holland is a good example. We were just a little ahead of the times.” - Bill Shoemaker

PERSONNEL, TRACKS & DATES:

• The New York Art Quartet

• Roswell Rudd - (trombone)
• John Tchicai - (alto saxophone)
• Lewis Worrell - (double bass)
• Milford Graves - (percussion)
• Leroi Jones - (recitation on track 2)

• 01 Short
• 02 Sweet / Black Dada
• 03 Rosmosis
• 04 No. 6

• Recorded November 26, 1964 New York City.
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• Mohawk

• Roswell Rudd - (trombone)
• John Tchicai - (alto saxophone)
• Reggie Workman - (double bass)
• Milford Graves - (percussion)

• 05 Rufus
• 06 Mohawk
• 07 Banging On The White House Door
• 08 No. 6
• 09 Everything Happens To Me

• Recorded July 17, 1965 New York City.