"Makanda" Ken McIntyre: Stone Blues / Looking Ahead / Honi Gordon Sings auf 2 CDs

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Composer and instrumentalist Ken McIntyre (1931-2001) was one of the least forbidding of the wave of young musicians involved in the so-called 1960s "new thing." Although his music reflected the jazz avant garde's total emotional commitment, he never discarded the more conventional jazz structures or forms while embracing the unexpected and unpredictable. And if his incendiary alto solos developed over fixed harmonic lines, they shared the same aesthetic motivations as those of Eric Dolphy or Ornette Coleman.

A technically competent flautist, he could also deliver valid, always interesting ideas. Like McIntyre, his four colleagues on the first album, Stone Blues, were Bostonians, all virtually unknown. But they had been together for a while before recording and were very sympathetic to his music.