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EDIT: der halbe Titeltrack, „Taru, What’s Wrong with You“, ist einmal mehr von Cal Massey – das fällt mir gerade schon sehr auf, wie präsent der als Komponist noch Jahre nach seiner eigenen Session war … immer hörenswert, hier eine ganze wunderbare Ballade!
und SIXTH SENSE endet mit „cry of my people“, einer der hymnen von archie shepp. es gab doch die geschichte vom quasi-karriere-ende von massey, weil er francis wolf im fahrstuhl getreten hat – oder wie war das?
edit, von hier:
Still life as a musician was hard; there was never a steady income. One day Cal tried to talk to one of the co-owners of Blue Note in what we now would call an elevator pitch. Cal was so frustated by the non-listening attitude of the executive that upon exiting the elevator he kicked him. This executive in turn put Cal on a blacklist and from that moment on it was merely impossible for Cal to get any work in the music business. Not the man to be put down easily he began to produce his own concerts. He would take his music directly to the people, he said. He started to give concerts at his own house featuring his daughter Waheeda singing and his son Zane on saxophone. He also organized benefit concerts at the st. Gregory’s Church right across the street. Concerts that featured names as Rashaan Roland Kirk, Thelonious Monk, Elvin Jones and of course John Coltrane. But things would get worse, on July 17 1967 John Coltrane died from liver cancer at the age of 40.The bulletin for the service bore the title „A Love Supreme“ and the text of that poem was read aloud by Cal Massey.
On April fourth 1968 Dr Martin Luther King was shot dead on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. Halfway during the sixties Cal Massey got involved with musicians that had a more radical attitude towards black liberation, one of them was a saxophone player called Archie Shepp.
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