Jemeel Moondoc Quartet - The Astral Revelations (ROGUEART 2018)

“Jemeel Moondoc at its best, joined by three of the most brilliant musicians: the perfect album”

Jemeel Moondoc and his bandmates are masters of the terrifying art of communicating how they feel, an art which, of course, takes both great intelligence and great discipline…

A fire burns in Jemeel Moondoc’s music and once it was ignited it keeps spreading; it’s the flame you can also feel in the playing of Matthew Shipp, Hilliard Greene, and Newman Taylor Baker. This quartet’s music is never easy, but it’s always truthful. Ed Hazel, excepts from the liner notes

Jemeel Moondoc: alto saxophone

Matthew Shipp: piano

Hilliard Greene: double bass

Newman Taylor Baker: drums

Cosmic Nickelodeon (17:03)

Blues For Katie (14:41)

Here Now, Gone Now (14:13)

Ornette Gone Bye (7:17)

All compositions by Jemeel Moondoc, Moon-Jem Publishing, ASCAP

Recorded live on February 5th 2016 by Jurre Wieman at Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mixing and editing: Jean-Pierre Bouquet, L’Autre Studio, Vaires-sur-Marne, France

Liner notes: Ed Hazell

Photographs: Bruno Charavet

Cover design: Max Schoendorff

Cover realization: David Bourguignon

Executive producer: Michel Dorbon