Giuseppi Logan: More

Rating: ★★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Don Pullen (p)
Eddie Gomez (b)
Giuseppi Logan (as, b clt, fl, p)
Reggie Johnson (b)
Milford Graves (perc)

Label:

ESP Disk

September/2014

Catalogue Number:

ESP 1013

RecordDate:

May 1965

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary edition of reeds player Giuseppi Logan's More album (not to be confused with the Pink Floyd soundtrack album of the same name) the ESP Disk archives have been excavated to unearth a previously unheard 10 minute fragment from ‘Shebar’ that was mysteriously discovered at the end of the master tape for Albert Ayler's Bells album. Recorded 1 May, 1965 at Town Hall in New York, this was one of two live tracks that appeared on More (the rest of the album being studio recordings, made the same month at Bell Sound). Although More has been reissued several times by the label, the inclusion of this newly found material makes this latest version the one to go for. Over Don Pullen's ecstatic piano playing and Milford Graves' equally enthusiastic and exploratory drum tapestries, Logan blows an alto so hot it must have scalded his lips. Equally impressive is Reggie Johnson who cools down the heat with a bewitching bass solo – levering apart a musical doorway for the rest of the quartet to open up and bleed. Before switching to sax, Logan was already an established piano player as a listen to ‘Curve Eleven’ clearly testifies. Here he shows the full extent of his powers, hammering the keys one minute and then relaxing back into an almost classical music stance the next. For those who have yet to hear this free jazz masterpiece – the time is now.

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