John Lindberg

Resurrection Of A Dormant Soul is the third Black Saint album bassist John Lindberg made with trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff and pianist Eric Watson. The first, Dodging Bullets, was a trio recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt in June 1992. Drummer Ed Thigpen joined for Quartet Afterstorm in 1994, recorded at the same Milan studio in March of that year. In September 1994 the four played the Willisau festival in Switzerland under the name Quartet Afterstorm, and they came back to Milan the following winter. Lindberg is the only member based in the United States, and the album is the work of a group that met only occasionally but had by now played together for several years.

The session took place on February 9 and 10, 1995 at Mu Rec Studio in Milan, engineered by Paolo Falascone and produced by Giovanni Bonandrini, with liner notes by Bill Shoemaker. The writing is shared out. Lindberg contributes the title track, Quartet Pluckin' and the long X. 1, which closes the record at more than eleven minutes. Mangelsdorff brings Dots, Ditches And Scratches, Watson Conspiracy and Thigpen E. T. P., while Birds Of A Feather is credited to Lindberg and Mangelsdorff together. The pieces sit between five and nine minutes, apart from that closing track and the three-and-a-half-minute Birds Of A Feather, which leaves room for solos without stretching any piece into a suite. Each player writes at least one tune, so the record moves between Lindberg's bass-centred structures, Mangelsdorff's trombone writing and a Thigpen line rooted in bop.

This is the Black Saint CD 120172-2, the album's original 1996 release.