Jazz
Adam Downey Layout, Design
B. Smith Photography
David Murray Sax (Tenor)
Doug Pomeroy Engineer
Douglas McGregor Digital Remastering
Joel Bluestein Remixing
Jonathan Freed Engineer
Michael G. Jackson Composer
Michael Gregory Jackson Guitar (Acoustic), Remixing, Percussion, Marimba, Tympani [Timpani], Mandolin, Bamboo Flute, Guitar (Electric), Vocals
Oliver Lake Cowbell, Flute, Sax (Soprano), Talking Drum, Sax (Alto)
Stanley Crouch Liner Notes
Wadada Leo Smith Trumpet, Indian Flute, Flugelhorn
Before his career-defining records on Arista/Novus in the '80s and '90s, jazz and fusion guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson recorded his debut for ESP-Disk'.
* The sessions, recorded in New York, Connecticut, and Los Angeles in the summer of 1976, are wildly meditative and personify the laid-back seventies vibe.
* An unfolding stream of ideas makes these improvisations vital today: arrhythmic strumming, enchanted R&B vocals, avant percussive clatter, processed electric guitar, and fiery horn lines over timpani and flute. Composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, cited as a major influence by Jackson, is featured on the album.
Michael Gregory Jackson
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: 1953 in New Haven, CT
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Fusion, Jazz-Pop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Guitar Jazz
Formerly known as Michael Gregory Jackson, Jackson was an ambitious guitarist who was recording with some of the more experimental, ambitious modern jazz players in the late '70s and early '80s. As an acoustic and electric stylist, he was interested not only in comping behind singers and doing conventional single-line solos, but in sounds, rhythms, and textures. Then he shifted gears and began doing fusion and R&B.
---Ron Wynn, All Music Guide |
