“FROM THE COLD JAWS OF PRISON”FOLKWAYS 1971-all INSERTS

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Vinyl - NM

Cover - NM (still in shrink)

From The Cold Jaws Of Prison by Inmates & Ex-Inmates, Musicians & Poets from Attica,Rikers & the Tombs

Original stereo US-pressing from 1971 on FOLKWAYS RECORDS, FH 5403, deep-grooved blue label with silver lettering. Contains a  4-page insert with complete lyrics & comments on each track.

Produced by: “Soul Rock from the Rock.The genesis of Jazz.The rock we refer to is the prisons”.

Line-up: most of the time there’s a black male vocalist doing poetry slamming/proto rapping accompanied by congas and/or drums,there’s also a jazz-flutist on most tracks,sometimes there’s a bass player and/or a piano- or guitar- player.

Tracks: side 1:Cathedral– The Junkie – Down Went The Junkie – Daddy Daddy Come Dig Me – Lord I Want To be A Christian ---- side 2:An Open Letter – I’m A Dreamer - Screaming – He Arose.

Folkways always made “field-recordings”, so what you hear is pretty rough, concerning both the recording-quality and the rude & uncensored lyrics, but it all sounds pretty cool. Awesome flute-soloing (on one track there’s a nice effect of a distorted sounding breathing of the flutist, while his melody-lines are clean!), the bass is fat and the congas are real loud. There’s spiritual jazz, african percussions, thoughts on Black Power & Drugs and more. Rougher than The Last Poets or early Gil Scott-Heron, reminds of Will Crittendon & his Afro-Jazz Ensemble! The first 4 tracks on side 1 are real killer!!! Folkways later made 2 more legendary LPs in the same vein as the “Prison”-record: Sarah Webster Fabio’s “Juju...” and “Coltrane’s Equinox”.

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