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Fred Ho & The Afro Asian Music Ensemble - Big Red! (2011) {Innova 794}
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© 2011 Innova / Big Red Media | 794
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Experimental / Modern Creative / Modern Small Band / Baritone Saxophone

It’s not every day that you run into a musician who joins a protean range of talents—as a composer, saxophonist, writer and bandleader–-with a commitment to Marxist ideology….For twenty years now Fred Ho and his Afro Asian Music Ensemble have been defending the turf where the personal and the political slam into the maelstrom of new jazz…a fiercely imaginative baritone saxophonist and composer.

Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls - Rebel Roots (1996) {Naim Audio naimcd014}
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© 1996 Naim Audio | naimcd014
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Post Bop / Modern Creative

Drummer Ted Sirota's debut CD with his Rebel Souls quartet displays his passion for the avant garde of the '60s (e.g., Ornette Coleman and his sidemen). This is not so much a free jazz as a free bop excursion, with melodies played by tenor saxophonist Kevin Kizer, and obtuse, angular lines from electric guitarist Jeff Parker. Bassist Jeff Hill is unspectacular, but plays a good part in backing the others. There's a great version of Thelonious Monk's "Brilliant Corners," with all the downtempo to uptempo changes, haunting impressions, and bop sonorities of the original.

When we formed in 1994, there was a plan to record a concept album about Danish bog bodies. As children, we visited the museums of Moesgaard and Silkeborg, transfixed by the sight of the black bodies with orange hair. Shortly after, we discovered heavy metal. Funny how you can love a genre from the age of 7 and still never learn how to play it.