Monday, December 29, 2008

Cosiner’s Monthly Album Reviews: October 2008 Part 2


The Giuseppi Logan Quartet (ESP Disk, 1965)

One more to revisit here. A great album by the multi-reedman, Giuseppi Logan with his quartet. Originally released in 1965 (recorded in 1964 at Bell Sound Studios in NYC), Logan chose his close friends and companions, Milford Graves (d), Don Pullen (p) and Eddie Gomez (b), to create this 5-song (deep!) album and added to the full dimension of each musician. This was one of the first free-jazz records that taught me the depth of exploratory music and the use of middle-eastern and south asian (Indian, particularly) instruments and scales. There is an ESP reissue on CD now, digitally re-mastered and sounds very good (unlike many free-jazz reissues out there). Unfortunately, Logan only had two releases (both on ESP) before disappearing from the scene in the early 70s (appeared on Roswell Rudd's album later I believe). I recently saw an article somewhere he was missing since the 70s and found by a Mission Christian church in New York... His unique sound will be greatly missed. Until next time.

-Cosiner

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