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Review in der kommenden Ausgabe von The Wire (Setember 2009):
Arthur Doyle Plus 4
Alabama Feeling
(Rank And File LP)Alabama Feeling was outsider free jazz saxophonist Arthur Doyle’s debut album as a group leader, following a series of impressive contributions to Noah Howard’s The Black Ark and drummer Milford Graves’s Babi. Released on fellow saxophonist Charles Tyler’s Ak-Ba label in 1978, Alabama Feeling gave Doyle the opportunity to fully open up on record, together with bass player Richard Williams, trombonist Charles Stephens and Rashied Sinan and Bruce Moore on drums.
The inferno takes hold immediately on the first track “November 8th & 9th – I Can’t Remember When” with Doyle’s frantic tenor sax squealing in ecstatic agony over Williams’s buzzing bass blur and Stephens’s relatively calm trombone asides, while Sinan and Moore’s double drum salvos ricochet in the background. The piece is crudely cut
off mid-flow and spliced into a charmingly chaotic solo from Doyle called “Something For Caserlo, Larry & Irma”, before returning to the intense improvisational heat.
Side two is slightly more restrained, with drums and bass taking the lead before Doyle’s duck-call sax hysteria breaks through. The side concludes with the threepart “Development”, where Doyle adds flute, which he plays with as much raging energy as his tenor saxophone. Despite the acclaim Doyle’s later recordings have received, his voice has never sounded as pure, unfettered and ‘dangerous’ as it does here.
Edwin Pouncey
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