Lovely duo session, recorded in 1977 and released in 1983, with drummer Charles ”Bobo” Shaw and Lester Bowie on trumpet. Been getting into jazz duos lately, with different instrument combinations. Drums together with just one other instrument excites me. The Rashied Ali title with drums and violin is amazing and this one is another highlight.
The music is very creative despite it’s limited instrumentation, rhythmically exciting and the unusual combination of just drums and trumpet is astonishingly fresh and engaging. Stripped down avant-garde is apparently my kind of stuff.
Mississippi-born Shaw was a member of the Human Arts Ensemble and Black Artists Group and I will definitely check out both. Trumpeter Lester Bowie was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago which I’ll also check out in depth. So much music to immerse myself in. It’s an endless well.