Kenny Clarke & Francy Boland Big Band

Volcano

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• 1 box703 washington dc
• 2 griffs groove
• 3 volcano
• 4 love which to no loved one permits excuse for loving
• 5 now hear my meanin
• 6 and thence we issued out again

It is a few minutes after ten-thirty on Monday evening, February 17, 1969, in Ronnie Scott's, 47 Frith Street London W I. On this particular Monday at Ronnie's something special is about to happen. A new attraction is to begin a two-week engagement at the club, and this attraction is out of the ordinary. The area in front of the liggers' bar is thickly populated with musicians, journalists, 'resting' critics and broadcasters, radio, TV and record shop personnel and 'regulars'. The club's owner walks purposefully up to the microphone and announces, with suitable compliments, the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band which will play its first set. He then takes his place in the reed section behind a tenor saxophone. He is flanked by Sahib Shihab, on his left, and on his right by Derek Humble, Johnny Griffin and Tony Coe. This Anglo-American quintet is one of the orchestra's crowning glories, largely so because Boland writes choruses for it which enable the five musicians to function and flower as an enthusiastically coherent melody section, led, and most effectively, by British alto player Derek Humble. This reissue combines two separate albums (Volcano and Rue Chaptal) that were recorded during the same evening at Ronnie Scott's, consisting mostly of originals by Boland, with a cooking blues feature, ''Griff's Groove,'' showcasing Griffin and Bailey, especially standing out. Clarke composed the explosive ''Volcano'' as a feature for himself and fellow drummer Kenny Clare. Woode, a veteran of Duke Ellington's band, penned the gospel-inflected blues ''Now Hear My Meanin','' which has soulful solos by alto saxophonist Derek Humble, trombonist Ake Persson, and baritone saxophonist Shihab. Long out of print and overdue to be reissued, this exciting album is well worth acquiring.