Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - Humility in the Light of the Creator

2000 CD reissue.

This 1969 album was the tenor saxophonist’s first as leader. Kalaparusha’s provocatively original playing was first heard on the initial AACM album, Roscoe Mitchell’s Sound from 1965, and on Muhal Richard Abrams’ debut Levels And Degrees Of Light. John Litweiler wrote Humilty’s original notes: “Maurice’s originality lay precisely in his highly developed sensitivity to melody and linear relationships, whatever his medium – straight-ahead melodic improvisation, or intense free-spaced exploration of sounds. With Leo Smith, John Stubblefield, Amina Claudine Myers, Malachi Favors