Rather than being spirited, raucous and trying to channel Coltrane, Frank Lowe's Brother Joseph is quiet and occasionally intense, and maybe even more moving. Presumably, the brother in question is Joseph Jarman, a founder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
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Via Avant Music, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth lists his top ten free jazz recordings. A quick survey of iTunes turns up some conventional jazz by Rashied Ali (drummer on Coltrane's Interstellar Space). Saxophonist Frank Lowe's catalog is deeper; his Black Beings album is $4.49 and in the clips at least, has an edge to it. Joseph Jarman and Leroy Jenkins (under the pseudonym "The Wizard") play on the recording. Compared to say, the courtly Mozart, this is angry and conscious music. iTunes
artists on moore's list: rashied ali, peter brotzmann, marion brown, dave burrell, ric colbeck, arthur doyle, milford graves, dr. umezu-seikatsu kojyo iinkai, frank lowe, sonny murray, don pullen, cecil taylor, john tchicai, marzette watts (with sonny sharrock), frank wright.
