Branford Marsalis
the music was developed into a standalone set of compositions to be recorded and performed in a trio setting with Rema Hasumi and Todd Neufeld
but first issued on the limited set Art Ensemble 1967/68
author of Space is the The Lives and Times of Sun Ra"Sun Ra has an intrinsic instinct of music as language…there is a sense of language being transmitted as code – and this also translates from a trans-African type of construct to something that could be construed as signals being sent in outer space…he turns everything upside down in a gnostic type of way
Yoichi Uzeki (piano)
Offset Rhapsody CD Consignment Branford MarsalisTrumpeter Ralph Alessi, saxophonists Peter Epstein, Chuck Manning, Scott Mayo and Bob Sheppard (especially on bass clarinet,) bassist Darek Oleszkiewicz, and drummer Dan Morris read and play the music extraordinarily well. There is no excess or filler. Carney himself is light when he wants, forceful when he has to be, subtle and bluesy when he chooses. He himself, in this democratic ensemble, is not as distinctive as the witty, meaty, mighty music he