Creative Arts Jazz Ensemble LP on Arhoohlie
Skip Drinkwater
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Does anyone have any info on this one, like who plays on it, etc? Are they the same as (or affiliated with) the Creative Arts Ensemble from LA?
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Arhoolie put out all kinds of music - traditional jazz, blues, and free/out jazz.
My fave is Luna - "space swell".
I can tell you that sales of this 1969 album were so low that Chris Strachwitz (owner of Arhoolie) stopped putting out jazz albums altogether, even though it received a positive review in Down Beat magazine...
...including the godfather of the genre, Clifton Chenier.
Bongo Joe! (George Coleman, that is...)
They're still at it, releasing albums of "sacred steel" music (that is, steel guitarists who play in churches down south, like Aubrey Ghent or the Campbell Brothers). They probably have a website...