Live at 131 Prince Street, by JuJu

Live at 131 Prince Street

by JuJu

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Efrain Ramos After you've heard "Mozambique/Azucar Pa Ti" (I'm a big fan of Palmieri) you will have turned to sawdust. Jalango Ngoma is wicked on timbales. In all its a percussive and rhythmic tour de force!

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A1. AT LEAST WE HAVE A HORIZON NOW

B1. THEMBI

C1 MOZAMBIQUE / AZUCAR PA TI

D1. OUT OF THIS WORLD

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1. AT LEAST WE HAVE A HORIZON NOW
2. THEMBI
3 MOZAMBIQUE / AZUCAR PA TI
4. OUT OF THIS WORLD
5 ROSALIE / JUJU’S DOOR

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1.	At Least We Have a Horizon Now 18:52	buy track
2.	Thembi 14:57
3.	Mozambique / Azucar Pa' Ti 22:35	buy track
4.	Black Experience (Live at 131 Prince St) 13:42	buy track
5.	Rosalie / JuJu's Door 13:03	buy track
6.	Out of this World 09:21	buy track
7.	Logos / Mojo 22:14	buy track

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Strut continue their in-depth archive reissues from the Black Fire label with a definitive edition of JuJu’s ‘Live At 131 Prince Street’,recorded in 1973 at Ornette Coleman’s gallery in New York and featuring a previously unheard recording of the Pharoah Sanders composition "Thembi".

After forming in San Francisco while working on the Marvin X theatre piece ‘The Resurrection of the Dead’, JuJu began to hone their uncompromising fusion of Afro-Latin rhythms with free and spiritual jazz before signing to Strata-East for the ‘A Message From Mozambique’ album in 1972. “We moved to New York and became part of the avant-garde community on the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village,” remembers bandleader Plunky Branch.

Following a high profile live show at the Lincoln Center, Ornette Coleman invited JuJu to his gallery and loft at 131 Prince Street to perform there and to stay on while he left on tour. “That was life-changing for us,” continues Plunky.“It was fabulous. The recordings you hear on this album are in close proximity to each other, maybe across one day or a weekend at the gallery.”

Alongside tracks written by the JuJu band members, like the 5/4 tempo ‘At Least We Have A Horizon Now’, they play choice covers from their peers.

Plunky explains, “‘Thembi’ is a Pharoah Sanders piece which he wrote for his wife in 1971 and it’s one of my favourite pieces by him. ‘Azucar Pa Ti’ was written by Eddie Palmieri; we loved him too and enjoyed Latin music in general. Here we play ‘Mozambique’, based on an Afro-Cuban rhythm and we regularly played that for 10 minutes before morphing into ‘Azucar’. ‘Out Of This World’, written by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, was inspired by John Coltrane who recorded a version of it on his ‘Coltrane’ album in ’62.”

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released March 5, 2021

2021, Strut Records - a division of K7 Music GmbH

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Official archive of Jimmy Gray's seminal independent soul and jazz label & collective that he ran out of Richmond, VA between 1975 and 1993. Working from the original master tapes and unreleased session, artists include Oneness Of Juju, Lon Moshe, Byard Lancaster, Theatre West, Wayne Davis and more.... ... more

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