There are so many David Murray recordings avaliable on emusic -many worth a download but this is in my top 5. Great band, and the music played with a lot of feeling. Hard to pick a personal fav track as they are all great - but do really like tracks 2 & 4.
David Murray calling to the Lord straight through the reeds like the baby Moses. This music will fill your heart near to burst then combust it all over your soul.
Muhal Richard Abrams is likely best known as a driving force behind the hugely influential Chicago co-op the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), but he's also an underappreciated composer. Not unknown by any means — he won Denmark's first Jazzpar Prize in 1990, before the international jury got around to David Murray, Lee Konitz, Tommy Flanagan and Roy Haynes. But Abrams 'orchestra rarely got the attention it deserved in its '80s and… more »
