Talkin’ About My Revolutions

BROTHERHOOD CONSORT
Paris 2008 [no label, 1CD]
Live at Cite de la Musique, Paris, France, February 9, 2008.

Last year, French avant-garde saxophonist, Raphael Imbert, put out the challenging Bach/Coltrane album. Together with classical organist (and teacher of baroque improvisation), Andres Rossi, the album sets out to make connections between Bach’s church choral influences with that of Coltrane’s negro spirituals. You can hear that fusion live here on Song of Praise/Jesu Meine Freude (Coltrane/Bach) proving that both men were spiritual brothers- in-improvisation.

Here in their Brotherhood Consort project, they are joined by double bassists, Michel Peres and Simon Tailleu, who have a long duet on Coltrane’s Selflessness (one of his later compositions in 1965) and violinist, Marie Bereau, heard on the beautiful cover of Duke Ellington’s Come Sunday. But the stand-out track is Albert Ayler’s Truth Is Marching In, where Imbert wisely realises that no one can match Ayler’s crying, screaming tone. Instead he opts for a calmly passionate, gospel rendition bringing out the sacred aspects of Ayler’s composition. Jean-Luc Difraya and Mourad Benhammou work busily in the background on drums and percussion, making sure that the march of truth never falters. - Philip Cheah

Thanks to cosmikd for sharing this very good FM recording on the Dime site.

1. talk
2. Selfessness (John Coltrane)
3. Truth is Marching in (Albert Ayler)
4. Come Sunday (Duke Ellington)
5. Song of Praise/Jesu meine Freude (Coltrane/Bach)
6. talk

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