Rashied Ali, Leroy Jenkins

condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (minimal wear)

Violin and drums, nothing else: Rashied Ali and Leroy Jenkins in duo on Survival Records, 1975 - two master rhythmists from two different revolutions, the late Coltrane circle and the AACM, meeting in the most exposed format there is. Jenkins saws, sings and scrapes his whole vocabulary into the open space Ali keeps generating, and the conversation runs deep: this is free improvisation with the concentrated intimacy of chamber music and the drive of the loft scene at its best. The violin-drums pairing has almost no precedent in the music and few successors either - which tells you how demanding it is, and how completely these two solve it.

One of the treasured entries in the Survival catalog, pressed small and hunted steadily ever since. A duo record that people who own it tend to talk about, with the special warmth reserved for things that should not work and do, magnificently.