| Griot Galaxy / Live at the D.I.A. |
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| Album: | Live at the D.I.A. | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Griot Galaxy | Added: | May 2003 | |
| Label: | Entropy Stereo Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-06-30 | Pull Date: | 2003-09-01 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Aug 31 | Aug 24 | Aug 17 | Aug 3 | Jul 27 | Jul 13 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 06, 2004: | Morning Glory Marz Society | 4. | Aug 23, 2003: | Morning Glory Marz Society | |
| 2. | Oct 26, 2003: | Oh Messy Life Shadow World | 5. | Aug 15, 2003: | Memory Select Shadow World | |
| 3. | Aug 29, 2003: | Memory Select Necrophilia | 6. | Aug 01, 2003: | Memory Select After Death |
| Album Review |
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| Craig Matsumoto Reviewed 2003-06-29 | ||
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Horn-heavy free jazz quintet, a 1983 recording of a long-standing Detroit band featuring Faruq Z. Bey. Great stuff, combining (as you'd expect) free-wheeling bebop with African rhythm ideas. Liner notes give the band's history. 1 - Mostly slow-paced and enrapturing, with temple-meditative opening and a good fast sax solo from -7:30 to -4:30. (16-minute track) 2 - Mysterious riff opening, into a faster blazing segment. STOPS around -14:00. Second half opens with a drummerless sax interlude and builds to a loud blazing crescendo. Last 3 minutes quiet. (26-minute track) 3 - Cool mysterious polyrhythm 4 - Slow New Orleans blues, minor key 5 - African drum break 6 - Slow procession 7- Mid/fast Sun Ra tune, cool bebop feel | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Z-Series | 4. | Fosters | |||
| 2. | Necrophilia | 5. | Marz Society | |||
| 3. | After Death | 6. | Spectrum | |||
| 7. | Shadow World | |||||