KARLTON HESTER AND THE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ART MOVEMENT – S/T (Hesteria, 1981)

Hesteria Records – HESTERIA 00001
US, 1981
private press

A1 The Jive Cycles Within An Integrated Force-Field
A2 Ballad
A3 It's About Time The Rain Came
B1 Pan African Ballet Music

Karlton Hester – flute, piccolo flute
Dwaine Spurlin – soprano sax, tenor sax
Chioke Okpara – tenor sax
Mpenda – tenor sax
Lewis Jordan – alto sax
Ray Collins – clarinet, alto clarinet
Rasul Siddik – trumpet
Larry Douglas – trumpet, flugelhorn
Matthew Harrell – bassoon
Hawley Currens – violin
Bette Hered – oboe, english horn
Charles Thomas – bass
Terry Elliott – piano
Kamau Seitu – drums

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CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS' ORCHESTRA – Vol. 1 (1984)

Williamsburgh Music Center Inc. – WMC-3098
US, 1984
private

A1 Spear It Chew All
A2 Waltz For My Love
A3 I Got It Bad
B1 Life
B2 The Loved Ones

Armen Boyajian – violin
Jason Hwong – violin, viola
Eileen Folson – cello
Gerry Eastman – electric and acoustic bass, guitar
Marsha Frazier – piano
Joe Ford – alto and soprano sax
John Abrams – tenor sax
Reynold Scott – baritone sax, flute
Khaliq Al-Rouf – tenor sax, flute
Longineu Parsons – trumpet
Ambrose Jackson – trumpet
Mack Rucks – trumpet
Mike Guerrier – trombone
John Betsch – drums (A2 only)
Newman Baker – drums
Jessica Cleaves – vocals

Produced by Williamsburgh Music Center, Inc.
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Privately released orchestra jazz album from the Williamsburgh Music Center in Brooklyn, headed by Gerry Eastman and Joe Ford who both recorded on Birthright's Breath of Life.  With other personnel including Longineu Parsons on trumpet, Khaliq Al-Rouf of The Ensemble Al-Salaam on sax and flute, and John Betsch on drums, it is no wonder this album is full of forward thinking modal/spiritual jazz, but it is the addition of the string section that makes this one sound remarkably like a lost Tapscott led Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra recording.  This one is not to miss!



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