Featured Album

Music from the Source

RELEASE
August 02, 1977
LABEL
Enja
GENRES
Jazz, Post-Bop

Album Review

Other than a 1974 set for Strata-East, this post-bop effort was bassist Cecil McBee's earliest recording as a leader. With Chico Freeman (heard on tenor and flute) as the most impressive soloist, McBee performs two originals and a piece by Hal Galper in a sextet that also includes trumpeter Joe Gardner, pianist Dennis Moorman, drummer Steve McCall and Don Moye on conga. The music is spiritual in nature, sometimes quite modal and in the adventurous genre of John Coltrane without being derivative. A fine live set, one of two recorded within a two-day period at New York's Sweet Basil.
Scott Yanow, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Agnez
  2. God Spirit
  3. First Song in the Day