Lawrence Of Newark cover

Lawrence Of Newark

Released

Organist Young was in a wildly creative zone in the late ’60s and early ’70s; he played on Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew, the first three albums by drummer Tony Williams’ Lifetime, and the Carlos Santana/John McLaughlin spiritual guitar summit Love Devotion Surrender. This unjustly obscure 1973 album crosses contemporaneous work by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders (who guests, albeit pseudonymously) with Davis’s On The Corner; Young, guitarist James “Blood” Ulmer, bassist Juini Booth, Cedric Lawson on electric piano, and a roomful of percussionists create a swirling, psychedelic, at times dubby cloud of space-jazz that’s more atmospheric than tune-based, but utterly mesmerizing.

Phil Freeman

Recommended by

Suggestions
Disrespectful cover

Disrespectful

Tim Lefebvre, JZ Replacement
13 cover

13

Blur
Birth & Rebirth cover

Birth & Rebirth

Max Roach, Anthony Braxton
Big Band cover

Big Band

Julius Hemphill
Breaking Stretch cover

Breaking Stretch

Patricia Brennan
Realization cover

Realization

Eddie Henderson
Fever Bed cover

Fever Bed

Mat Maneri
Momentum Space cover

Momentum Space

Elvin Jones, Cecil Taylor, Dewey Redman
Autobahn cover

Autobahn

Kraftwerk