5020675000339

Intensive Care: Prescriptions Filled - The Billy Bang Quartet Sessions 1983/1984

The Jazz Doctors

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Format: CD

Cat No: SGCCD020

Release Date:  21 April 2023

Label:  Cadillac Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5020675000339

Genres:  Jazz  Avant-garde  

  • Description

    The Jazz Doctors or the Billy Bang Quartet toured Europe in the early 80s, featuring spiritual jazz pioneer saxophonist Frank Lowe and Vietnam vet turned free jazz violinist Billy Bang, the group recorded in 1983 and 1984 in London.

    With legendary rhythm section Rafael Garrett and Dennis Charles, they recorded an album for Cadillac that fast became a sought after classic.

    The '84 session, with the different but equally astonishing rhythm of Wilber Morris and Thurman Barker, never appeared. Studio problems led to half the album being rendered unusable. Here for the very first time is the music that remained, including a unique and astonishing suite composed by Billy Bang.

    Newly remastered from the original tapes at Gearbox studio and including a previously unreleased session, and all on CD for the first time, with new sleeve notes and images by acclaimed author/photographer Val Wilmer.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Little Melonae
      • 2. Ballad With One L
      • 3. Spooning
      • 4. Loweology
      • 5. Blood On The Cross
      • 6. Lonely Woman
      • 7. Suite For Gamma Pt 1
      • 8. Suite For Gamma Pt 2
      • 9. I Mean You!
      • 10. Mr Syms
      • 11. Pent Up House