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| 1. | Truth Serum
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| 2. | Mokondi
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| 3. | Emerging Field Opening (Suite:)
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| 4. | Emerging Field Emergency Blue (Suite:)
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| 5. | Emerging Field Currents (Suite:)
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| 6. | Beauty is a Rare Thing
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| 7. | Song of the Khemti Nobles
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| 8. | Tenere' [For S.E.K. and A.J.]
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| 9. | Pre-Text [Improvisation]
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Jazz
Dan Bracken Mastering
Faruq Z. Bey Sax (Tenor), Sax (Alto)
Mark Rudolph Artwork, Cover Photo, Design, Layout
Mike Carey Sax (Tenor), Sax (Alto), Shaker, Clarinet (Bass)
Mike Gilmore Marimba
Mike Johnston Artwork, Mixing, Bass, Engineer, Design, Percussion
Nick Ashton Drums, Percussion
Skeeter C. R. Shelton Sax (Tenor), Sax (Alto)
Wendy Ashton Tray Photo, Photography
Emerging Field marks the sixth release of Faruq Z. Bey with the Northwoods Improvisers on the Entropy Stereo label. This release finds the group exploring rhythm and space in a broader sense than previous offerings. Faruq Z. Bey , Mike Carey, and Skeeter Shelton create thoughtful space and intricate conversations in their horn lines evoking a relaxed and passionate response with a solid blues focus. Mike Johnston and Nick Ashton root the group with their sound rhythmic foundation. The track Mokondi brings out the strength of this rhythm section. Mike Gilmore floats in and out of the music with vibes and marimba reminding one of some of the fantastic work of the late Walt Dickerson. Among the highlights are Carey's arrangement of Ornette Coleman's Beauty Is A Rare Thing, and Mike Johnston's Tenere.
Faruq Z. Bey
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Creative, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
One of the visionaries of Detroit's modern jazz scene, saxophonist, flutist, composer, and poet Faruq Z. Bey has faithfully carried on in the post-John Coltrane era as a unique and original performer, enduring cultural, sociological, and physical difficulties that would have stifled a individual of less strength and fortitude. Bey was born Jesse Davis in Detroit, MI, on February 4, 1942, and his parents were vocalists in church and gospel choirs, his father a city bus driver, his mom a stay-at-home housewife. His cousins Charles Rowland and Sherrell Rowland were also musicians. The eldest of five children, Bey grew up in the Conant Gardens district and was educated in the public school systems, attending Holy Ghost and Atkinson secondary schools, and Pershing and Wilbur Wright high schools. He studied existentialism at Wayne County Community College and was a disciple of the Moorish Science Temple. He was originally trained on the upright string bass, and one of his music instructors in school was pianist James Tatum. A neighborhood influence was legendary rhythm & blues singer Eddie Floyd when he was with the Falcons.
He heard the John ColtranePharoah Sanders ensemble at the Drome Lounge in 1966, a year before Coltrane passed away, and it profoundly changed his life. So did the infamous race riots in the summer of 1967. Bey was a serviceman in the Air Force, and upon release, changed his name to Malik, then Faruq Zinji Bey. In the late '60s and early '70s Bey emerged as a member of the developing progressive jazz scene, and participated in concerts sponsored by the Detroit Artists Workshop and the Creative Arts Collective. As a member of the Bey Brothers with Sadiq Muhammad and Jalil Bey (all of whom adopted the surname), they played regularly at the Concept East Theatre. He performed prominently with drummer Roy Brooks, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and various bands like Black Choreology, the First Afrikan Primal Rhythm Arkestra, As (Is), the World Space Ensemble, and Onyxz.
Originally established in 1972 with Elreta Dodds, Kenn Thomas, and Kofi Patrice Nassoma, the seminal progressive jazz ensemble Griot Galaxy were founded by Bey. The group changed to sport a three-horn front line with David McMurray and Anthony Holland, supported by guitarist A. Spencer Barefield, bassist Jaribu Shahid, and drummer Tani Tabbal. As Detroit's answer to the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Griot Galaxy stood club and concert audiences on their collective ears with a fiery, passionate, and driven multi-layered and polyrhythmic music that was revolutionary for its time in the 1980s.
But health and physical issues due to a serious motorcycle accident plagued Bey, and when Griot Galaxy were disbanded in 1991, the saxophonist, in recovery, was determined to forge new pathways for expressionism. He formed a partnership with the Northwoods Improvisers from mid-Michigan, merging their world fusion sound with his creative concepts. The combination added saxophonists Mike Carey and Skeeter Shelton to revive the three-saxophone collective that made Griot Galaxy such a potent band. As Bey's health allowed, he also formed several new groups including the Conspiracy Winds and Speaking in Tongues. Bey has accompanied M.L. Liebler's Magic Poetry Band, Hakim Jami's Street Band, Kindred with keyboardist Kenneth Greene, Ajaramu, and bluesman Robert B. Jones, and is a member of the Odu Afrobeat Orchestra. Bey has published poetry compendiums -Year of the Iron Sheep and -Etudes in Wanton Nasses, and the theory instructional -Toward a Rational Aesthetic.
---Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide |
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