When you get up in the morning, you must have a song - Ray Charles

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Billy Bang Sextet - Sweet Space


I posted this lp a few years ago but I recently had a request for a repost which I am happy to oblige. What a better excuse for digging out this great record. In my earlier  review I called this lp "shambolic". I don't necessarily get that anymore. Well I do kinda, but this thing grooves in a way I was just learning to appreciate back then.

Now I'm grooving on it on one of the last nights I can sit outdoors without a fire. And it's hitting all the right buttons.


Recorded live at the Loeb Student Center north lobby, New York University, November 15, 1979.



Billy Bang Sextet
Sweet Space

1. A Pebble Is A Small Rock
2. Sweet Space
3. Loweski For Frank (T.F.R.)
4. Music For The Love Of It



Billy Bang - violin
Frank Lowe - tenor sax
Luther Thomas - alto sax
Butch Morris - cornet
Curtis Clark - piano
Wilbur Morris - bass
Steve McCall - drums


Vinyl rip 

2 comments:

Hookfinger said...

Hope y'all can groove to it as well...

https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/8a6i8u

roberth said...

this looks interesting. i knew frank lowe played with mr bang but
this will be the first i have actually heard them together.
i look forward to it
robert