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File under: Soul-JazzModal70s

Compass

Compass Rises (LP)

Label: Frederiksberg Records

Format: LP

Genre: Jazz

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Tip!  When artsts self-releases their own recordings, they do so in the hopes that a hit might develop, or even better, a sphere of influence might form. In a lot of cases these records provide a stamp of existence and intent – a sonic business card showing what musicians were made of. Compass Rises (1973), the privately pressed sole LP by Oneonta, New York’s Compass, is both a sampling of versatility and a declaration of straight-ahead purpose.

Regularly active in upstate New York between 1969 and 1974, Compass was an acoustic-electric quartet that played original music and modern jazz standards. The group consisted of saxophonist and bass clarinetist Rick Lawn, keyboardist Joel Chase, bassist Tom Ives (doubling on flugelhorn), and drummer Al Colone. On the LP, percussion duties were shared across the band as well as an conguero, Ken Parmele. Every song on Compass Rises, with the exception of the opener, is written and arranged by Lawn. The album is a nod to the post-Coltrane lineage of 1970’s jazz – even at its most spry there’s an undertow of workmanlike toughness, perhaps a reflection of the industrial-collegiate hybrid towns in New York where Compass plied their trade. 

Details
File under: Soul-JazzModal70s
Cat. number: FRB012
Year: 2022
Notes:
500 pressed, made at Pallas. Comes with insert. Recorded November 17, 18 & 19, 1972 in Marblehead, Mass. Dedicated to our drummer Albert Colone, 1944-2021, “Mr. Glass Half-Full” Licensed from Compass Photos courtesy of Compass Pressed at Pallas, Germany Frederiksberg Records © 2022