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A landmark recording in early creative improvised modern music, bassist Cecil McBee's work for the Strata East label is an important document introducing him as a leader from the international jazz-based scene in New York City via his native Tulsa, and following a brief mid-'60s stint in Detroit. McBee as a pure musician has staggering technique, rich harmonic ideas, and an indefatigable swing, but it is as a composer that he is set apart from other musicians of this mid-'70s era.

PERSONNEL:

• CECIL McBEE, bass
• JIMMY HOPPS, drums
• ONAJE ALLEN GUMBS, acoustic piano
• LAWRENCE KILLIAN, conga
• GEORGE ADAMS, tenor & soprano sax
• CECIL McBEE JR., electric bass
• MICHAEL CARVIN, percussion
• JABOLI BILLY HART, percussion
• TEX ALLEN, trumpet & flugelhorn
• ALLEN BRAUFMAN, alto sax
• ART WEBB, flute
• ALLEN NELSON, drums

New York, May 8, 1974

TRACKS:

• A1. From Within
• A2. Voice on the 7th Angel
• A3. Life Waves

• B1. Mutima
• B2. A Feeeling
• B3. Tulsa Black