Art Brooks: The Night Caller

Private press Free Jazz lp from Bennington University in Vermont by Trumpeter Art Brooks. What originally got my attention when I dug this up in a local antique shop was that the liner notes were written by Bill Dixon, and that Brooks dedicates the lp to his teachers – Dixon, Cecil Taylor, and Milford Graves. How could I possibly go wrong? Sure enough it’s quite good. It’s a rather large group (9 players) and consists of one 30 minute piece that spans the length of both sides. Though recorded in 1977 the sound is somewhat of a throwback to the heyday of his teachers. It’s quite easy to imagine it having been some lost session from a label like ESP-disk in the late 60’s or early 70’s which is just fine by me. Seems to be fairly obscure too.