Browse by Artist: SPEARMAN, GLENN

Artist:	SPEARMAN, GLENN
Title:	First & Last
Label:	EREMITE
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	MTE 015CD

"Tenor saxophonist Spearman was an authentic heir to the legacies of Frank Wright & post-Meditations Coltrane. In October of 1998, his giant spirit & wild, high-intensity flights on the horn were permanently shut down. This performance from the July 1998 Fire In the Valley festival, with Rashid Bakr on drums & Matthew Goodheart on piano, suggested a multiplicity of new directions for his small group playing. It turned out to be his last ever earth gig, concertizing or recording. "but man, i wish i could hear him play one more time/'cause he was/for me/more than anyone else i've known/the connection/to the heart of original jazz freedom." -- Byron Coley, Threnody for Jon Easley & Jim Shepard && Glenn Spearman &&& Dick Higgins &&&& Ray Bremser.

Artist:	SPEARMAN, GLENN
Title:	Blues For Falasha
Label:	TZADIK
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	TZ 7130

"The question of identity has historically played a large role in the survival of the Jewish people and had special significance to free jazz tenor titan Glenn Spearman, as the son of an African-American father and a Jewish mother. Before his death of cancer in Oct. 1998, Spearman become involved in a deep exploration of his Jewish roots, a journey that expressed itself musically in Blues For Falasha, his last and most adventurous recorded composition. This powerful meeting of Jewish and African-American traditions features Spearman's landmark group 'The Double Trio' in a long, visionary work composed especially for the Tzadik Jewish series." With Larry Ochs, Chris Brown, Lisle Ellis, Donald Robinson & William Winant.

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