Label: NoBusiness Records

毎度素晴らしい即興&フリージャズの貴重な記録を届けてくれるNoBusiness Records。このレーベルが展開しているサム・リヴァースのスタジオで録音された"Rivbea Live!"シリーズの第四弾作品。米アルト・サックス奏者にしてフルート奏者、作曲家、詩人、フリー・ジャズと実験演劇を融合させたBlack Artists Group(BAG)の創設メンバーであり、ジャズ・レーベルPassin' Thru Recordsの運営者でもあるオリヴァー・レイク。自身のバンドも無く、またBAGは解散/離散状態であった1975年、まるでゼロから再出発するような気分でニューヨーク訪れた際に記録された未発表音源集。







When I came to New York City in 1975, after my second period in Paris, I felt as if I was starting again. I didn’t have a band at that time. The Black Artists Group had broken up, or separated—well, it wasn’t much of a “break-up,” but we had come to our musical end, even though one of the last groups I had before returning to New York was with BAG member Baikida Carroll playing trumpet, Peter Warren on bass, and Oliver Johnson on drums.
I was basically by myself. I felt eager and anxious to see where my saxophone would take me in New York, so I started sitting in at different places, hoping that I was going to be discovered by a record company and things were just going to be magical and all that. I was quite an idealist.