NEW YORK ART QUARTET - Call It Art

"Hand-numbered edition of 665 in a sturdy white birch box. Includes a 156-page clothbound book 'packed with photos, manuscripts, band-member notes, and other memorabilia.' Featuring Roswell Rudd, John Tchicai, and Milford Graves with bassists Lewis Worrell, Don Moore, Eddie Gomez, Bob Cunningham, and Reggie Workman, and "guest appearances" by Amiri Baraka, J.C. Moses, and Alan Shorter. This is an extraordinary, redefining set. In addition to one alternate take from Mohawk (the great Rudd piece - Banging on the White House Door), the set includes the groups MoMA performance, a radio set from WBAI with LeRoi Jones, a Halloween 1964 concert at reedman/recording engineer/painter Marzette Watts loft, their set from the Four Days in December - concerts, and music from a 1965 rehearsal at [Michael] Snows loft." - Clifford Allen.

"Transcendental Joy! An amazing work of research and tape-archaeology brings us all the missing links in the life of the NYAQ - one of the key developments in the history of our music." - Evan Parker.