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Artist:	THORNTON, CLIFFORD
Title:	Freedom & Unity
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	ALP 225CD

2008 repress. Beautifully melodic soul jazz sessions from '67, featuring Coltrane Quartet's Jimmy Garrison on bass. Joe McPhee's first appearance on LP, prior to his own quartet's release in 1969. Includes 2 previously unheard/unissued bonus tracks from Joe McPhee's personal archive. Original liner notes by Ornette Coleman & Archie Shepp! "Clifford Thornton should be one of the best-known figures of the free jazz era. That he has lapsed into relative obscurity stands as a testament to the way that the availability of recordings shapes our sense of history. A brass player in a world of saxophonists, he recorded a handful of fantastic records under his own name for BYG, America and JCOA. He was an outspokenly political person in a politically charged atmosphere (in 1970, he was barred entry into France on suspicion of being a Black Panther), and he was an independent record company owner. Third World Records, on which he issued Freedom & Unity and later Communications (1972), was his own label."

Artist:	THORNTON, CLIFFORD
Title:	Ketchaoua
Label:	BYG RECORDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BYG 323LP

23rd volume in the BYG Actuel series; gatefold sleeve, 180 gram vinyl. "This album was recorded in Paris on August 18, 1969 by Clifford Thornton (cornet and conga drums) with Grachan Moncur III (trombone), Archie Shepp (soprano saxophone), Arthur Jones (alto saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), Sunny Murray (drums), Beb Guerin (bass), Earl Freeman (bass) and Claude Delcloo (drums)." "'Clifford Thornton was a player and a composer whose obscurity was offset by the high esteem in which he was held by his fellow musicians... like Shepp, Thornton was actively involved in advancing the ideology of the black nationalist movement... and all of his recordings are intense and important about those matters that were close to his heart -- liberation, communication and unity." -- Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.

Artist:	THORNTON, CLIFFORD
Title:	Ketchaoua
Label:	GET BACK (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	GET 323

"This album was recorded in Paris on August 18, 1969 by Clifford Thornton (cornet and conga drums) with Grachan Moncur III (trombone), Archie Shepp (soprano saxophone), Arthur Jones (alto saxophone), Dave Burrell (piano), Sunny Murray (drums), Beb Guerin (bass), Earl Freeman (bass) and Claude Delcloo (drums). 'Clifford Thornton was a player and a composer whose obscurity was offset by the high esteem in which he was held by his fellow musicians... like Shepp, Thornton was actively involved in advancing the ideology of the black nationalist movement... and all of his recordings are intense and important about those matters that were close to his heart - liberation, communication and unity'. -- Thurston Moore and Byron Coley. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl."

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