Live At 131 Prince Street

Strut continues their in-depth archive reissues from the Black Fire label with a definitive edition of JuJus Live At 131 Prince Street,recorded in 1973 at Ornette Colemans gallery in New York and featuring a previously unheard recording of the Pharoah Sanders composition Thembi. The recordings you hear on this album are in close proximity to each other, rcorded maybe across one day or a weekend.Alongside tracks written by the JuJu band members, like the5/4 tempo At Least We Have A Horizon Now, they play choice covers from their peers. Plunky explains, Thembi is a Pharoah Sanders piece which he wrote for his wife in 1971 and its one of my favourite pieces by him. Azucar Pa Ti was written by Eddie Palmieri; we loved him too and enjoyed Latin music in general. Here we play Mozambique, based on an Afro-Cuban rhythm and we regularly played that for 10 minutes beforemorphing into Azucar. Out Of This World, written by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, was inspired by John Coltrane who recorded a version of it on his Coltrane album in 62.

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Format: CD
Artist: Juju
Release Date: 12 March 2021
Genre: Jazz
Label: K7/Strut Records
Distributor: MGM Music