“This concert was originally dedicated to Jimi Hendrix, & performed on the day of his death.  Originally produced & issued by Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw himself, ‘Red, Black & Green’, by the band ‘Solidarity Unit, Inc.’ documents what happened at ‘The BAG Room’ in St. Louis, MO, the day Jimi Hendrix died. Captured in a gloriously blunt & low-res recording that is as stark as the b&w cover art, Shaw & the ten-piece group produce a raw, teeming, clattering sound that never relinquishes. Lake & Bowie were by this time already powerful soloists, & both declaim fervently & damn near relentlessly over Shaw’s swaggering themes. Dead at age 34 & recorded just four times, guitarist Richard Martin’s performance is a true revelation; as Martin leaps from blues idioms to screaming attacks to pure howling feedback, one wonders if even Sonny Sharrock reached these places with the instrument. Furious kit & hand drumming, violently rattling little instruments, jabbing percussive Rhodes, thundering bass guitar, these guys don’t hold back! Easy to say ‘lost underground free jazz classic,’ but that’s the real story here.

“The music was remastered from the best available sources by Mike King, pressed on premium HQ-180 gram vinyl by RTI, & presented in a heavyweight Stoughton replica sleeve in an edition of 600. PROJECT PRODUCED WITH THE ARTIST'S FULL PERMISSION & COOPERATION. For more on BAG: http://press.umsystem.edu/fall2004/looker.htm “

Charles Wesley Shaw, Jr. "Bobo" percussions
Richard Martin: guitar
Oliver Lake: alto saxophone, flute
Floyd Leflore: trumpet
Joseph Bowie: trombone
Carl Richardson: bass
Clovis Bordeaux: piano
Danny Trice: conga drums
Baikida Yaseen: trumpet
Kada Kayan: bass