Maurice McIntyre Discography of CDs

Maurice McIntyre CD discography In the 1960s, bop snobs who condemned avant-garde jazz made comments that were not only uninformed and narrow-minded, but sometimes, their attacks on jazz's "new thing" (a term that was used to describe free jazz and Chicago AACM jazz as well as a lot of modal post-bop) were even mean-spirited and hateful. Such bop snobs loved to ridicule and mock the spirituality that characterized a lot of modal and avant-garde jazz; they treated it like a joke and a fad. But spirituality in music is hardly faddish; when explorers like John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, and Yusef Lateef were influenced by traditional ...

Maurice McIntyre CD discography in 1966 and 1968. Includes liner notes by Robert & Sue Koester. The raw-as-an-open-wound Chicago slide guitarist J.B. Hutto outdid himself throughout an outrageously raucous album (most of it waxed in 1966) anchored by an impossible-to-ignore "Hip-Shakin'," the blaring title cut, and savage renditions of "20% Alcohol" and "Notoriety Woman." Sunnyland Slim augments Hutto's Hawks on organ, rather than his customary piano. ~ Bill Dahl Electric slide guitar master with Sunnyland Slim, Le Jackson, Jr. Pettis, Maurice McIntye, Frank Kirkland. Recorded at Sound Studios, Te-Mar Studios & Lakco Records, Chicago, Illinois Personnel: J.B. Hutto (vocals, guitar); Lee Jackson (guitar); Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (tenor saxophone); Sunnyland Slim (piano, organ); Frank Kirkland (drums). Liner Note Author: Robert G. Koester. Recording information: ...

Maurice McIntyre albums Levels and Degrees of Light was the first recording under Muhal Richard Abrams' name and was a landmark album that launched the first in a long line of beautiful, musical salvos from the AACM toward the mainstream jazz world. The title track finds Abrams broadly tracing out some of the territory he would continue to explore in succeeding decades, an ethereal, mystic quality (evinced by Penelope Taylor's otherworldly vocalizing and Gordon Emmanuel's shimmering vibes) balanced by a harsh and earthy bluesiness set forth by the leader's piercing clarinet. "The Bird Song" begins with a fine, dark poetry recitation by David Moore (oh! for the days when one didn't approach a poem on a jazz ...