Wednesday, April 20, 2005

My latest revelation

Trumpeter Hugh Ragin’s "Revelation" is basically a free jazz set, bordering on hard bop in places. It might remind you of Don Cherry as far as the former and Donald Byrd in the case of the latter. Assif Tsahar does good work on sax and bass clarinet and Hamid Drake on drums. William Parker turns in another stellar job holding everything together on bass, and gets in a few impressive solo licks of his own. "Night Life" really made me see the title’s subject in my head. Not at all sorry I bought this disk.

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