The Revolutionary Ensemble

Featuring: Leroy Jenkins, Sirone

condition (record/cover): EX / VG+ (small writing inside gatefold and distributor sticker on back)

Gatefold unipack sleeve. 

One of the great trios of the seventies avant-garde on a major-label detour: The Revolutionary Ensemble - Leroy Jenkins, Sirone, Jerome Cooper - documented in proper studio conditions on Horizon, A&M's briefly heroic jazz imprint that gave the underground real budgets for a few shining years. Violin, bass and multi-percussion in total democracy: no front line, no rhythm section, just three composer-improvisers weaving chamber textures, deep grooves and free flight into a group sound that still has remarkably few descendants, because the standard it set was so complete. Jenkins's violin sings the whole Black string tradition forward; Sirone's bass is architecture in motion; Cooper's percussion arsenal orchestrates rather than accompanies. That a band this uncompromising got major distribution and audiophile production at all remains one of the seventies' happy anomalies, and the results justify every dollar spent.

Among their finest records, and a cornerstone of the string-driven avant-garde. Recommended without a syllable of reservation.