"Revelation," the title track on the Hugh Ragin Justin Time CD, came up on my iTunes Party Shuffle playlist tonight and two things occurred to me. First, Ragin (a regular David Murray collaborator) does some of the best avant-garde trumpet playing I've heard in a long time, and yet it's still accessible.
Second, if you're going to play avant-garde jazz, you should get Hamid Drake to do the drumming. William Parker on bass helps, too, and Assif Tshar on bass clarinet, as well as tenor sax, adds some interesting texture.
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