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...title track of the collection is probably the most interesting stylistically. With its jazz sensibility and horn accompaniment, "South Saturn Delta" marks one of the most intriguing musical avenues Hendrix was pursuing before his death. One can only imagine what would have resulted had plans to collaborate with such jazz greats as trumpeter Miles Davis actually come to fruition. While the song represents an embryonic conception, the fusion of "South Saturn Delta" hints at what would undoubtedly have been a very exciting phase of Hendrix's career...
...tunnel is 30 m.p.h.) They saw the Mercedes swerve into the left lane in an attempt to pass the car. Once the two vehicles entered the tunnel, these witnesses lost sight of them. But they immediately heard a loud crash followed by the droning of an automobile horn, caused by the weight of the driver's body on the wheel...
...percolating, rock-steady lines. The band seems to find one voice, and in tracks stretching up to 30 minutes long, the musicians lay into one repetitive groove after another with a vengeance. Miles, in the center of it all as always, works the wah-wah pedal relentlessly, giving his horn even more human qualities...
Dark Magus becomes a sea of sound--a dense, nearly opaque collage of crashing rhythms, slamming funk and inspired, wild soloing. Unlike Philharmonic Hall, where the soloists largely stayed in the vein of the steady funk of the band, the soloists in Dark Magus can barely be contained. As horn player Dave Liebman writes in the liner notes, "each man had his role...[drummer] Al Foster for the most part just kept the energy up relentlessly.... What it really came down to was the relentless, screaming sound and energy of the music...
...Dara Horn's column appears on alternate Fridays...