THINGS WE LIKE

I have to correct the low rating this excellent album has for potential 'prog' buyers. If you believe prog music can cover a wide range of styles and genres (not just Brit bands from the 70s with mellotrons and mini Moog) and include artists such as Ornette Coleman, Carla Bley or even Satie or Stravinsky under that description then this could be a 'prog' album that you might enjoy. Especially if you like jazz-tinged bands such as early Soft Machine, or early fusion inventors such as Tony Williams' Emergency, or the first excellent album by McLaughlin (Extrapolation) then you WILL certainly enjoy this album. I would not call it a bebop album but a precursor of the fusion wave that was starting to emerge (e.g. Extrapolation, Larry Coryell's early stuff, and of course Tony Williams pioneering jazz-rock invention). If any of these bands are to your liking then you need this album. The band seems to love Ornette Coleman but does not go as far and free as Ornette. Instead, they are entering the new ground that was to be the brit jazz-rock explosion of the late 60s and early 70s.