The brilliant trumpeter’s final album as leader, from 2007 — fresh, nimble, exuberant, reaching, with Billy Bang on violin and Bryan Carrott on vibraharp.

Ace Brazilian funk from 1977, with a flagrant dose of the Herbies.

D.K. and Low Jack.

Characteristically brilliant ebullience from the Art Ensemble trumpeter in 1974, with John Hicks (doing Hello Dolly as a duet), John Stubblefield, bro Joseph Bowie from Defunkt, Julius Hemphill (on Ornette’s Lonely Woman), Bob Stewart, Cecil McBee, Jerome Cooper, Charles Shaw and Phillip Wilson.

‘High energy beats from the kings of Bamako’s sound-system street-party scene, as featured on the Balani Show compilation. Cut-up samples of baliphones, djembes and talking drums, spliced together into heavy studio tracks. Future bass sounds — a Malian mix of kuduro, decale, dancehall, and trap.’
Scarce.

‘Psychedelic funk, cosmic disco, Balearica… and beyond!’

Sombre Shaka weapon, with Junjo and the Roots Radics, from the same early-eighties sessions as Police In Helicopter.

Originally out on the TK imprint Gospel Roots in 1978. We included the curtain-raiser Elijah Rock on our overview of the label, Christians Catch Hell.
Outstanding.

Reissued for the first time since its initial 1969 release.
Side one was recorded earlier that year at the gallery of Heiner Friedrich in Munich, where Young and Zazeela premiered their Dream House sound and light installation. Running their voices against a sine wave drone, the composition has its roots in The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys, begun in 1964 with The Theatre of Eternal Music. According to Young, the raga-like melodic phrases of his voice were heavily influenced by his future teacher, the Hindustani singer Pandit Pran Nath.
Side two was recorded in Young and Zazeela’s NYC studio in 1964. A section of the longer composition Studies in the Bowed Disc, this is an extended, highly abstract noise piece for bowed gong. The liner notes explain that the record can be played at 33 and 1/3 rpm as usual, but also at any slower speed down to 8 and 1/3 RPM on turntables with this capacity.