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New Jazz News – 2/4/2020

Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe – Duo Exchange (Survival): Rashied Ali (drums) and Frank Lowe (tenor sax) recorded this set in 1972 as they brought their new label “Survival” to life. These are seemingly the complete takes in the entirety even including some brief discussions and soundcheck. “Every musician who worked steadily with John Coltrane in the Sixties achieved a certain kind of immortality. But drummer Rashied Ali earned a special distinction thanks to a February 1967 duo recording date with the legendary horn player, five months before Coltrane’s death. Released seven years later as Interstellar Space, the music from that session essentially launched an entire subgenre of fervent, spiritually attuned free jazz played by just a saxophonist and drummer. Yet as a new series of reissues and archival releases shows, Interstellar Space is only part of the Rashied Ali story. Of the first two titles to be released physically and digitally as part of a relaunch of Survival — the label the late drummer ran on and off from the early Seventie

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