Mosaic Select by John Carter & Bobby Bradford, a box set of 3 CDs released on Mosaic in 2010 and recorded 1969-79
-- beautifully bracing modern jazz, of a sort that somewhat follows an Ornette Coleman lineage, but which also opens up into the new spirituality that was hitting the LA scene in the post-Coltrane years -- almost a bridge between the Coleman/Dolphy generation, and the later Nimbus scene that would rise in the west! The music here is stark, simple, and quite organic -- yet has an energy that's all its own -- an amazing progression of rhythms and horn sounds, wrapped together beautifully through a killer set of original compositions. Carter plays alto, tenor, clarinet, and flute; Bradford is on trumpet, and rhythm players include Nate Morgan and Bill Henderson on piano, Henry Franklin and Louis Spears on bass, and Bruz Freeman and Leon Ndugu Chancler on drums. - Dusty Groove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItT518UpzVY&list=RDItT518UpzVY&start_radio=1
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