Swift Are The Winds of Life 2xLP (Expanded Edition)

PREORDER STREET DATE JAN 31ST   “Leroy and I never played together, and so we decided to get together. We came into the club when it was closed, I turned on the tape recorder and we just started playing, not even thinking that it was gonna turn out the way that it turned out, and that was the first and the last time we played. It was great thing; it was in the winter time. For the pictures we went up to Central Park where it was freezing cold and Valerie Wilmer took the pictures for us. It was just a whim.” Rashied Ali" Part of Rashied Ali’s artistic strength involved turning improbable sound combinations into unchal- lenged masterpieces. After the pattern established by John Coltrane’s Interstellar Space, and Duo Exchange with Frank Lowe, the drummer stepped into a rather unlikely duet with violinist Leroy Jenkins for Swift are the Winds of Life. Five years with the Revolutionary Ensemble had established Jenkins as a composer; he designed all the pieces played on these 1975 duets wi