ein erwähnenswertes Reissue:
Frank Foster – The Loud Minority (BGP 2014 / Mainstream 1974)
http://acerecords.co.uk/the-loud-minority
aus Michael G. Nastos‘ Kritik auf Allmusic:
The early ’70s were rife with political and racial conflicts, indicative of the pressures surrounding the scandal of Watergate and Richard Nixon, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the painful continuation of the Vietnam War. As explosive as the times were, Frank Foster’s The Loud Minority reflected all of those mounting tensions while remaining hopeful in a self-determining way that gave rise to the „I’m Black and I’m Proud“ sentiment. Foster assembled a giant of a big band featuring dual instrumentation all around, including keyboards, basses, and drummers to power a horn section chock-full of the best mainstream jazz and progressive players of the day. Because funk-fusion was flowering, electrified elements of guitar and Fender Rhodes piano identify the music with the times, while vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater, never known as a protest singer, reads powerful poetry and screams freedom at the top of her lungs, inspired by a band that knows no bounds or limits, at its core a mighty modern jazz orchestra removed from Foster’s work with the Count Basie band.
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