First Time Out: Live at Slugs 1967, by Rashied Ali Quintet

First Time Out: Live at Slugs 1967

by Rashied Ali Quintet

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Rashied Ali’s Survival Records label re-launches in 2019, including this release and an expanded version of the iconic Duo Exchange with Frank Lowe. These and future Survival releases have been optimized through the engineering skills of Grammy-nominated veteran mastering engineer Joe Lizzi, the musical acuity of drummer George Schuller, and historical input from researcher Ben Young—overseen by Ali’s widow, Patricia. This team has exhaustively catalogued Ali’s voluminous recording library, and will bring forward further treasures in coming years.

SIDE A
Study for As-Salaam Alikum (24:16)

SIDE B
Ballade (25:05)

Side C
Composition 1 [title unknown] (25:12)

SIDE D
Composition 2 [title unknown] (22.23)

Correction: Sides A and C of the Vinyl were reversed in production; side A plays “Study for As-Salaam Alikum” and Side C plays "Composition 1 [title unknown]." We regret the error.

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	1.	Ballade 25:06
	2.	Untitled 25:12

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The digital version of this release contains only a portion of the material on the 2xLP.

The musical legacy of Rashied Ali receives a powerful rejuvenation with the publication of a previously unissued set by Ali’s group, recorded live at Slugs in 1967. This obscure appearance may have been only the second time that Ali had led a band in public. Band membership is stellar and unprecedented, and the tunes they play predate all known segments of Rashied’s career as a composer or bandleader.

Drummer Rashied Ali (1933–2009) was still officially on the job as John Coltrane’s drummer when he assembled this band for perhaps as little as two sets of music in the Spring of 1967. It’s about the first documentable activity for the late tenor saxophonist Ramon Morris, who had thoroughly absorbed the lessons of John Coltrane, post 1961. Trumpeter Dewey Johnson (who, like Morris, died months before this release) had his peak moment of fame two years prior, appearing with Coltrane on the orchestral Free Jazz masterpiece Ascension. Pianist Stanley Cowell was just emerging as a distinctive voice among the open-minded ‘Young Lions’ of the day, on his way from Marion Brown’s quartet to groups led by Max Roach. Bassist Reggie Johnson was already familiar with Slugs; he had worked there, alongside Ali and Cowell, across the previous two years.

Little or no announcement heralded this gig; It may well be that only the neighborhood regulars and Ali’s associates (might Trane himself have been there?) would have known about it. But the players came to burn: They crackled and glowed in long treatments of Rashied’s loosely-structured pieces. Ali has more to say here as a soloist than in the several years of his recording career prior, and all of the musicians show a side different from how they appeared on records.

This stereo recording gives us a front row seat—with all the grit and mayhem from those heady times. Meticulous remastering from the original tapes has polished this bit of East Village verité into a riveting, glistening-but-raw pearl from the black underground of the Sixties.

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released January 10, 2020

Rashied Ali Quintet
Dewey Johnson (Trumpet)
Ramon Morris (Tenor Saxophone)
Stanley Cowell (Piano)
Reggie Johnson (Bass)
Rashied Ali (Drums)

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Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson (July 1, 1933) was a progenitor and leading exponent of multidirectional rhythms and polytonal percussion.

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