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Artist:	WRIGHT, FRANK
Title:	The Complete ESP-Disk' Recordings
Label:	ESP-DISK
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	ESPDISK 4007CD

"Frank Wright, the warm, out-going, exuberant tenor, tore into his music with great physicality and a unique, bright, brash signature. Surrounded by stellar musicians on his two ESP sessions, and playing much of his own material, it is here that Frank truly came into his own as a leader and an innovator. Set includes over 13 minutes of previously unreleased interviews. Digitally remastered from the original tapes. Sound quality far exceeds any previous CD issue."

Artist:	WRIGHT, FRANK
Title:	Unity
Label:	ESP-DISK
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	ESPDISK 4028CD

Previously unreleased live set from the Moers Festival, recorded 6/1/74. Frank Wright (tenor sax), Alan Silva (bass), Bobby Few (piano), Muhammad Ali (drums). Two long 28-minute-ish tracks make up this CD, totally heavy to see this finally released. "The spirit of the performance here is uncompromising in its devotion to Wright's desire to make music that had been heretofore unheard, and to take willing listeners to places in their minds and souls to which they had never been before, and would never get to go to again. The term 'outside' that was frequently used to describe free music at the time, is particularly appropriate to Wright's sound, for it is truly aiming to soar out of this world. When his saxophone enters the fray, screaming and squealing at the top of its register and roaring and bellowing in its bottom, it is seeking to express that which cannot be expressed in words -- the infinite power of the soul." -- Russ Musto, 2006.

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