{"title":"Knoel Scott featuring Marshall Allen","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"celestial-6","title":"Celestial","description":"\u003cp\u003eSun Ra Arkestra saxophonist Knoel Scott reaches for the sky to release debut studio album \u003ci\u003eCelestial\u003c\/i\u003e with long-time collaborator Marshall Allen. Best known for his long-standing role in Sun Ra Arkestra, saxophonist, composer, vocalist and performer Knoel Scott is a jazz legend in his own right. A celebration of his tight knit relationship with Arkestra leader Marshall Allen, \u003ci\u003eCelestial\u003c\/i\u003e marks Scott’s first major studio release after more than 40 years at the vanguard of modern jazz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on a career that has seen Scott record and perform alongside jazz greats such as Sun Ra, Charles Earland, Lou Donaldson and Leon Thomas, the 5-track album is steeped in the composition and performance styles of the African American jazz tradition, from blues and be-bop to the cosmic avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded in mono direct to tape and cut on a Scully lathe at the all-analogue Artone Studios in the Netherlands, Celestial brings together an inter-generational ensemble including bright sparks of the UK jazz scene, Charlie Stacey and Mikele Montolli, alongside Arkestra alumnus Chris Henderson. For Scott and Allen, it represents the culmination of decades of collaboration.The album begins in explosive style with the hard grooving ‘Les Funambules’, a prime example of Scott’s ability to walk a tightrope between hard bop form and raw improvisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe session then orbits around Scott’s composition ‘Celestial’, an interstellar 12-minute space walk that was originally written for the Sun Ra Arkestra with strings but was never recorded.Featuring Marshall Allen on the otherworldly EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument), ‘Celestial’ also hears Scott in full voice, reciting lyrics written by Arkestra vocalist and lyricist Arnold “Art” Jenkins. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Night Dreamer","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50485839954251,"sku":"2028611","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/09f8c7aa-0eec-2685-0dfe-548935bbee42_a8a2e382_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727603566"},{"product_id":"new-dawn","title":"New Dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo days after his 100th birthday, Marshall Allen started recording \u003ci\u003eNew Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e, his debut solo album. A member of Sun Ra’s Arkestra since 1958, Allen assumed leadership of the band in 1995. Throughout his nearly seventy-year career, Allen has never released a solo album under his own name, and yet, instead of capping such a legendary output, New Dawn seems to herald a new beginning. A love letter to spacetime, it channels a century of musical intelligence into seven tracks, showing Allen at his most protean—freely moving from relaxed, transdimensional palettes to bluesy big band and beyond.\u2028\u2028\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of music’s vanguard avant-saxophonists, Allen continues to deliver durational feats during the Arkestra’s gigs. Still, the compositional energy contained on New Dawn is striking. Allen was approached with the idea of a solo record by Week-End Records’ Jan Lankisch. The Arkestra’s Knoel Scott — who has lived with Allen at the Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra since the 1980s — worked with Allen to pore over the archive of unrecorded material and develop this debut. Scott assembled some of Philadelphia’s brightest jazz stars as well as some Arkestra veterans for the sessions. \u003ci\u003eNew Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e was then recorded over a couple of days in Philadelphia, with additional recordings to be added in the coming weeks and months. The legendary Neneh Cherry will lend her unmistakable voice to the title track “New Dawn”.\u2028\u2028\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough greatly informed by the philosophy of Sun Ra and his Saturnian teachings—traverse jazz’s traditions, dig deep into spiritual geographies — \u003ci\u003eNew Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e signals Allen as his own singular voice, one that’s swinging and bopping and reflecting into the future, with no sign of stopping. Week-End Records is proud to release this debut solo album by Marshall Allen.\u2028\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Week-End Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":51033239191883,"sku":"2237610","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51033238896971,"sku":"2237608","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/WE13CD_5bfed4dc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1735831548"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/knoel-scott-featuring-marshall-allen.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}