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01. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Unknown Title
02. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Give Me That Old Time Perversion
03. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - You Can Be Happy
04. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Judy's Smile
05. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Questions And Answers
01. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Themeless Improvisation
02. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Chant
03. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Little Red Head
04. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Day of Reckoning
05. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Judy's Smile
06. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Unknown Title
07. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Bruce's Departure
08. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Peaceful Farewell
ARTIST
TITLE
Question And Answer 1966
FORMAT
2CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RANDB 068CD RANDB 068CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/11/2021

If there was one sound guaranteed to shock in British jazz during 1966 it was that of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, the free-improvising collective centered around drummer John Stevens which that year helped establish London's Little Theatre Club as a stronghold of the "new wave". Although the avant-garde were slow in gaining a toe-hold on British jazz tastes, every so often a grass roots jazz club would take a chance on the new style, such as the night in June 1966 when the SME alighted on Greenwich's Prince Albert pub, eager to deliver their message to fresh ears. This CD set contains all the music played that night plus a 30-minute Q&A session, creating what must surely be one of the most important early documents of British "free" jazz. Disc two also adds a studio-taped session from later that year. Both sets are previously unissued and both are essential listening for those interested in the course of modern jazz development within the UK. 12-page booklet with notes by Simon Spillett.