Boxset / Compilation · 2011
Tracklist
Black Man’s Blues
1-1 Spoken Introduction 1:07
1-2 Albert Ayler/Know Your Enemy 19:27
1-3 Ganges/Enchantment/Tapestry 30:47
1-4 Black Man Blues 18:27
New York Collage
2-1 Nobody Hear The Music The Same Way (Dedicated To John Coltrane) 12:17
2-2 For Josie Part II 10:28
2-3 Illustration 8:22
2-4 Subhanallah 14:35
Line-up/Musicians
Alto Saxophone, Bells, Percussion, Shaker – Henry Warner (tracks: 2-1 to 2-4)
Bass – William Parker
Congas – Khuwana Fuller (tracks: 2-1 to 2-4)
Drums – Rashid Bakr
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Horn [Bull], Percussion – Bilal Abdur Rahman
Violin, Bells, Shaker – Billy Bang
About this release
NoBusiness Records NBCD30-31, edition of 1000 cd‘s (Lithuania)
This release contains never earlier released Survival Ensemble session from 29th May, 1977 recorded at A Day of Solidarity with Soweto in New York City. Also a 40 pages booklet with essay written by Ed Hazell about the Survival Ensemble, original flyers, photos, etc
CD 1 was recorded 29th May 1977 at A Day in Solidarity with Soweto: A Fund Raiser, Harlem Fight-Back, 1 East 125th St., New York
This session has never been issued before
CD 2 was recorded live at Columbia University Radio WKCR 89.9 FM 16th May, 1978
Originally released on ANIMA/RECORDS in 1978
Billy Bang‘s Survival Ensemble unreleased session „Black Man‘s Blues“ is also available on LP
Thanks to snobb for the addition