FRANK WRIGHT QUARTET Uhuru Na Umoja 1972 French 1st ORIG Press Free Jazz EX RARE

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FRANK WRIGHT QUARTET: “Uhuru Na Umoja”

LABEL: America Records

Label Number: 6104 (30 AM 6104)

- Rare 1972 French only issue of this free jazz beast.

- FIRST ORIGINAL PRESS ISSUE!!! Stamped matrix numbers – no written ones like later issues.

- Good CONDITION!!!!!

GRADING:

LP Record: Excellent – with minimal signs of play and couple of paper sleeve hairlines.

Laminated Jacket: VG++ ~ EX – has some signs of wear, slight wear on spine and right side of the opening of the sleeve. No splits or damages.

Some words on this issue: WRIGHT, FRANK QUARTET: “Uhuru Na Umoja” (America – AM-6104) Top notch virginal MINT copy!! “Uhuru Na Umoja” was originally released in 1972~3 on the French America label. The line-up is similar to Wright’s BYG Actuel outing "One For John": Wright on tenor, Noah Howard on alto, Bobby Few on piano and Art Taylor filling the on drums for Ali. The opening track is a monumental nine minutes and half slab of holy rolling free gospel. Heavily indebted to Ayler, Wrights take on the spiritual is spiced up by adding additional percussion. This is when not blowing their horns to smithereens since both Wright and Howard unleash an all-incinerating racket, an ominously heavy whirlwind of feverish sonic infernal blowing. This is what Thurston Moore had to say about this monolith recordings when he included it in his top ten of free jazz slammers: “Tenor saxist Frank Wright may be (previous to Charles Gayle's current reign) the heir apparent to both Trane and Ayler. Unfortunately he had a heart attack a few years back while rockin' the bandstand. All his recordings are more than worthwhile especially his BYG outing "One For John" (529.336/Actuel Vol. 36), his two ESP sessions (on CD from Forced Exposure) and his Center-of-the-World series of trio recordings with Alan Silva (bass) and Muhammed Ali (drums - Rashied's brother, not the pugilist) on the French label Sun. This LP "Uhuru.." is nothing short of killer with the great Noah Howard (alto), Bobby Few (pianist of Steve Lacy fame) and Art Taylor (heavy old-school drummer in free mode) going OUT and AT IT in stunning reverie.” Heavy, mind bendingly great and without a single doubt one of the greatest free blowing jazz discs ever to be put down on wax.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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