Black Artists Group ‎– In Paris, Aries 1973 LP

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Black Artists Group ‎– In Paris, Aries 1973 LPOutstanding free jazz session recorded in 1973 in Paris by Chicago outfit BAG. It was Lester Bowie, trumpeter with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, who suggested that the Black Artists Group (BAG) should head for Paris. In 1972 several members of BAG took his advice and flew to France for an extended stay. The following year a concert featuring saxophonist Oliver Lake, trumpeters Baikida Carroll and Floyd LeFlore, drummer Charles Bobo Shaw and trombonist

Graham Bond

In this sense the album is political

all gone and forgotten long ago

Claude Yvans

chance occurrences and simultaneity also suggests parallels with the concerns of leading experimental composers working at that time

they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity

While Danielle and Didier admit an affinity for some of these artists

" --Tom Johnson

A4 The Mandolin Tape 2:41

fusing Middle Eastern rhythms

’ From those feted early tapes we find Phil Hollis returning to lend jagged guitar on the drum machine sizzle of ‘Feels Like Summer’

five years previously