At 12:15 PM +1000 4/11/00, Jason Martin wrote:
>hey all
>
>
>anyone want to recommend any particular albums by gary bartz (saxophonist) and
>norman connors (of aquarian dream fame) that are worth checking?
>
>
>cheers
>jason
Anything w/Ntu Troop is fucking excellent-- probably start w/either
of the Harlem Bush Music albums: _Uhuru_ for "Celestial Blues", or
the equally excellent _Taifa_. NB-- the CD reissue 2fer is missing
about 2 minutes of the side-long "Blue" (a really annoying facet of a
lot of Fantasy/Milestone reissues-- same thing happened to Woody
Shaw's _Blackstone Legacy_).
The 3rd & 4th Ntu Troop albums are equally excellent, "Dr. Follow's
Dance" from _Follow, the Medicine Man_ & "Black Maybe" from _Juju
Street Songs_ are the ones I think get compiled most.
There's a reissue gap until around '75 (I really wanna find _I've
Known Rivers and Other Bodies_ from '73, another supposedly great
live-in-Montreaux set). The one I've heard from mid-decade, _The
Shadow Do_, though Mizell-produced, didn't do too much for me. So
much of the charm of Bartz's rootsy jazzfunk is its unpolished
nature, so the over-slick stylings really vitiate the proceedings for
me.
As for Norman Connors, _Dance of Magic_ & _Dark of Light_ are great;
haven't heard the two following, _Love from the Sun_ & _Slewfoot_,
but I understand he really slicked out by the latter half of the
decade.
--Jason Witherspoon ICQ #62837760
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