Allen Lowe
Jews & Roots: An Avant Garde Of Our Own: Disconnected Works: 1980 - 2018 (8CD)
Format8CDLabelEsp-DiskGenreJazz & Improvisation
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CD version. Saxophonist/guitarist/composer/music historian/ provocateur Allen Lowe spans the history of jazz in his music in a way that few besides Jaki Byard, Beaver Harris, Steven Bernstein, and Air have ever done, intertwining blues, early jazz, bebop, and the avant-garde. A prolific composer who was incorporating American roots music into his jazz decades before it was hip, he has led project bands featuring a broad array of jazz greats ranging from Doc Cheatham, Randy Sandke, Joe Albany, Don Byron, Ken Peplowski, and Percy France to Matthew Shipp, Julius Hemphill, Marc Ribot, Roswell Rudd, David Murray, Gary Bartz, Nels Cline, Ray Anderson, DJ Logic, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, and Hamiet Bluiett. With two notable but out-of-print exceptions, most of his work has been released on his own Constant Sorrow label. ESP-Disk' has long admired his work and is happy to partner with him on the career-spanning An Avant Garde Of Our Own: Disconnected Works 1980-2018, which consists of four CDs (3-6) of previously unreleased material and four thematically arranged CDs (1-2, 7-8) collecting a wide variety of material that was mostly previously - but not widely - available.
Release notes
8 CD box set, with 20-page booklet. Each CD is housed in its own clear plastic sleeve. On the box lid: Allen Lowe, Jews & Roots, (Radical Jewish Acculturation), An Avant Garde Of Our Own, Disconnected Works: 1980 - 2018
| Live At The Knitting Factory / Verna's Garage / The Living Room Tapes (1) | |||
| 1-1 | March Of The Vipers | 11:48 | |
| 1-2 | Strollin' With Helen | 7:09 | |
| 1-3 | Dicky Dreamed | 3:47 | |
| 1-4 | Prelude | 4:34 | |
| 1-5 | The Second Assassin | 6:12 | |
| 1-6 | No Sharps No Flats Blues | 6:23 | |
| 1-7 | Entrance No Exit | 3:51 | |
| 1-8 | Rhythm Thing | 4:36 | |
| 1-9 | Mental Strain At Dawn | 8:36 | |
| 1-10 | Tea Party | 6:11 | |
| 1-11 | Medillin | 9:04 | |
| 1-12 | Blue Like Me | 5:08 | |
| Live At The Knitting factory / Verna's Garage / The Living Room Tapes (2) | |||
| 2-1 | Chinatown My Chinatown | 4:40 | |
| 2-2 | I Alone (The Everlasting Beauty Of Monotony) | 3:45 | |
| 2-3 | Riff Raff | 5:10 | |
| 2-4 | For Poor B.B. | 7:59 | |
| 2-5 | The Trapeze Artist's Anxiety At The First Notes The Jazz Band Plays | 3:18 | |
| 2-6 | Manhattan Moan | 5:09 | |
| 2-7 | Woyzeck's Death | 5:29 | |
| 2-8 | Pete Brown | 2:59 | |
| 2-9 | Other Bodies, Other Souls | 6:25 | |
| 2-10 | The Bear Dances | 4:04 | |
| 2-11 | Bebop Thing | 6:28 | |
| 2-12 | Blue Interlude | 6:21 | |
| 2-13 | I Hate Blues | 1:47 | |
| 2-14 | The Lost | 2:35 | |
| 2-15 | Stars Fell | 3:43 | |
| 2-16 | Ros Speaks | 4:00 | |
| Poor Pilgrims Of Sorrow Suite / I Am A Woman Again (Gladys Bentley Suite) | |||
| Poor Pilgrims Of Sorrow Suite | |||
| 3-1 | Dark Skies | 6:02 | |
| 3-2 | Hymn For Ives | 5:28 | |
| 3-3 | Julius | 4:07 | |
| 3-4 | Mezz Walk | 9:00 | |
| 3-5 | Poor Pilgrims | 8:30 | |
| 3-6 | Son House | 3:51 | |
| I Am A Woman Again (Gladys Bentley Suite) | |||
| 3-7 | Opening Theme | 0:38 | |
| 3-8 | Upper East Side Blues | 5:38 | |
| 3-9 | Less Than Blue | 0:36 | |
| 3-10 | Charlotte's Dance #1 | 0:26 | |
| 3-11 | Crosstown Moan | 1:04 | |
| 3-12 | Less Than One | 0:49 | |
| 3-13 | Theme: I Am A Woman Again | 5:01 | |
| 3-14 | Charlotte's Dance #2 | 5:48 | |
| 3-15 | Charlotte's Dance (Goodbye Charlotte) | 0:28 | |
| 3-16 | Blue Interlude | 0:44 | |
| 3-17 | Cross-Dress-Cross / Theme | 0:36 | |
| 3-18 | Gone West / I Am A Woman Again / Theme / Ballad | 0:44 | |
| 3-19 | I'm So Blue (Will You Marry Me?) | 5:41 | |
| 3-20 | Ebony And Blue | 0:40 | |
| 3-21 | Still Less Than One | 4:32 | |
| 3-22 | Lord Why Have I Sinned? | 0:18 | |
| 3-23 | Lord Why Have They Sinned? | 8:51 | |
| Black Brown Beige, Yellow, Trans And Queer: My Country 'Tis Of This | |||
| 4-1 | Tea With Jaki | 7:25 | |
| 4-2 | Mingus' Ghost (Overwrought On The Coast) | 9:17 | |
| 4-3 | Fables Of Fascism | 7:41 | |
| 4-4 | Poem For D.A. Levy | 2:35 | |
| 4-5 | Border Crossing | 10:35 | |
| 4-6 | The Death Of Florence Mills | 1:48 | |
| 4-7 | Trombone Wheeze | 9:04 | |
| 4-8 | Pigfoot Mary | 13:11 | |
| 4-9 | Midnight At The Faggot's Ball | 9:00 | |
| 4-10 | Bud's Ghost | 2:12 | |
| Brother Matthew's Revenge | |||
| 5-1 | Bb Stomp | 10:43 | |
| 5-2 | Goodbye Julius | 7:13 | |
| 5-3 | Dinah's Day Off | 5:24 | |
| 5-4 | Monastery Bounce | 6:55 | |
| 5-5 | Boyce In The Chappel | 7:54 | |
| 5-6 | Julius' Step | 5:44 | |
| 5-7 | In Other Dreams | 6:17 | |
| 5-8 | Surrender | 4:23 | |
| 5-9 | Condon's Dream | 4:57 | |
| 5-10 | Monastery Bounce (2) | 7:00 | |
| 5-11 | Bb Stomp (2) | 11:34 | |
| Hey Lady / Time / Times | |||
| 6-1 | Other Bodies, Other Souls | 4:40 | |
| 6-2 | Just Who | 6:05 | |
| 6-3 | Delighted | 6:58 | |
| 6-4 | Ellison's Idea (Not Mine) | 10:23 | |
| 6-5 | Hey Lady | 6:58 | |
| 6-6 | Dodd's Blues | 6:57 | |
| 6-7 | Time - 1 | 6:39 | |
| 6-8 | Times -1 | 5:39 | |
| 6-9 | Time - 2 | 6:37 | |
| 6-10 | Times - 2 | 5:35 | |
| The Other America (1) | |||
| 7-1 | Louis' Pennies | 5:49 | |
| 7-2 | Blue Moon Parts 1 And 2 (To Elvis) | 4:14 | |
| 7-3 | Devil Got My Woman | 4:05 | |
| 7-4 | Delta Mountain Breakup | 7:22 | |
| 7-5 | The Hunger: Portrait Of Jimi Hendrix | 7:30 | |
| 7-6 | Hymn For The White Folks | 5:57 | |
| 7-7 | Oi Death - 1 | 3:07 | |
| 7-8 | Oi Death - 2 | 2:42 | |
| 7-9 | Blood On The Mountain | 4:54 | |
| 7-10 | The Winged Cross | 1:53 | |
| 7-11 | Shoot Me Up With Your Love (Theme For Johnny Thunders) | 3:45 | |
| 7-12 | I'm An Old Regular Baptist | 6:10 | |
| 7-13 | Soundtrack Theme From The Film Jews In Hell | 5:32 | |
| 7-14 | Mountain Mode Mood | 3:42 | |
| 7-15 | Bull Connor In Hell | 3:22 | |
| The Other America - 2 | |||
| 8-1 | Black And Blue | 10:25 | |
| 8-2 | Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground | 3:31 | |
| 8-3 | Jewtown Shuffle (Who's That Lovin' You Baby?) | 3:43 | |
| 8-4 | We Will Walk Across The Water (He Will Walk Across The Water) - 1 | 3:57 | |
| 8-5 | We Will Walk Across The Water (He Will Walk Across The Water) - 2 | 3:47 | |
| 8-6 | Patton At Large | 3:48 | |
| 8-7 | Yancey's Blues | 3:24 | |
| 8-8 | Oi Death (Part 1) | 2:56 | |
| 8-9 | Where's Lou Reed | 3:59 | |
| 8-10 | Oh Molly Dear | 7:22 | |
| 8-11 | She Loved Him (Variations On An Idea Of Mary Lou Williams) | 5:46 | |
| 8-12 | At A Baptist Meeting | 8:35 | |
| 8-13 | Oi Death 3 | 3:15 | |
| 8-14 | Blue Ballad | 2:16 | |
| 8-15 | Hymn | 3:50 | |
