S/D: "Black Power Free Jazz" ?

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So I'm crate digging on the floor of the local shop and I guess the clerk thinks he's alone because he puts on some incredible free funk freakout that wouldn't normally get play at this time of day.

As he walks past me I ask him what's playing and he (heavily lidded and a little slurred) says "[INCOMPREHENSIBLE NAME OF ARTIST]...free jazz...some real heavy black power shit, man."

I remember lots of horns and heavy downlow bass, but obviously this covers a lot. Can anyone recommend anything in this vein, though? Phil, I know this is your territory...

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

could be joe mcphee's "nation time?" could be a lot of things.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ that record is one of the greatest things in the world

― whatever i do, it's right (teenagequiet), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Could be "Nation Time"...or maybe Luther Thomas?

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Nation Time is exactly what I thought of when I saw this thread title, and teenage quiet is exactly right about how badass it is.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

also chris if you're repping for "funky donkey" that record is also one of the greatest things in the world

― whatever i do, it's right (teenagequiet), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah "Funky Donkey"...not so much "black power", but def lots of horns and heavy bass. Very funky.

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

Black Unity by Pharoah Sanders

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Black Unity by Pharoah Sanders
-- sexyDancer (jjjjjjjjjjjjj...), February 5th, 2007.

this was my thought, too; pharoah sanders' name seems easier to render incomprehensible than joe mcphee's

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Attica Blues by Archie Shepp?

― dad a (dad a), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

It definitely wasn't Attica Blues that was playing, but that is a great fucking record.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Clifford Thornton's The Panther and the Lash?

― JMMMusic (Jimmy M), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

marzette watts?

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

It sure sounds to me like you're describing Nation Time. As far as recommendations, Pharoah's Live At The East and Izipho Zam are my favorites of his late 60s stuff, followed by Thembi and Summun, Bukmun, Umyun. I've never been a big Karma or Tauhid fan. Also, Archie Shepp's The Way Ahead kicks lots of ass, as does The Magic Of Ju-Ju and Blasé and Live In Antibes.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

next time ask the clerk to repeat what he said?

― am0n (am0n), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Black Renaissance by Harry Whitaker?

― B.Graff (mr_graff), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

haha am0n otm

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

Sheeyit, if it was Waterloo, they put the fucking CD cover up where you can see it.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

Something by Archie Shepp?

― vartman (novaheat), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

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