Artist__│ Nate Morgan
Title___│ Retribution, Reparation
Label___│ Nimbus West Records

Source__│ Web Store

01. U.G.M.A.A.GER                                                6:40
02. Impulse                                                      5:44
03. Mass Madness                                                 5:55
04. Retribution, Reparation                                      6:51
05. One Finger Snap                                              2:55
06. Come Sunday                                                  8:47

"Pianist Nate Morgan (1964-2013) was a central figure on the Los Angeles
jazz undergound. A core member of the circle around the legendary
bandleader, pianist and community organiser Horace Tapscott, Morgan had
been part of Tapscott’s U.G.M.A.A. (Union Of God’s Musicians and Artists
Ascension) since he was just a teenager, and was a key member of the Pan
Afrikan People’s Arkestra, known as ‘The Ark’. Through the 1980s and
1990s he kept the PAPA flame alive, organising the Ark’s sprawling
songbook, running legendary jam sessions, and keeping LA’s deep jazz
roots well watered. By the early 2000s he was bringing hard won knowledge
to a new generation as part of the Build The Ark collective. He was a
musician’s musician, at the beating heart of the radical,
community-minded Los Angeles jazz network that Tapscott and his
associates had first put together in the early 1960s.

Retribution, Reparation was the second of the two LPs Morgan recorded for
Tom Albach’s storied Nimbus West imprint. His first, Journey Into
Nigritia (Outernational Sounds OTR- 008), had been a declaration of
arrival laced with energies drawn from Cecil Taylor and Coltrane. One
year later, with nods to Herbie Hancock (‘One Finger Snap’) and Ellington
(‘Come Sunday’), Retribution, Reparation was a confident statement of
purpose. Politically charged with pan-Africanist and Black nationalist
sentiments inspired by Marcus Garvey, and titled with uncompromising
directness, the album focusses the soundworld of the Ark into a surging,
restless masterpiece of spiritualised modal jazz. With Danny Cortez on
trumpet and Ark stalwart Jesse Sharps on saxophones the frontline is
explosive (this set is also one of the few places the extraordinary
Sharps can be heard in a small group setting), while Fritz Wise and Ark
regular Joel Ector hold down the rhythm section. Morgan’s forceful,
Tyner-like chords and virtuosic solos and bind the music together. From
the poised drama of the opening dedication to Tapscott’s U.G.M.A.A.
(‘U.G.M.A.A.GER’) to the propulsive militancy of the title track,
Retribution, Reparation spreads the word: ‘Advance to Victory, Let
Nigritia Be Free!’"

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