The Music From The Connection

by Freddie Redd / Jackie McLean

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The compositions were originally commissioned as live accompaniment for Jack Gelber's highly controversial off-Broadway play exploring heroin addiction. The quartet members, acting concurrently as musicians and junkies on stage, translated the tense, theatrical urgency into a remarkably cohesive, blues-driven studio recording.

Genres

  • Hard Bop

Tracklist

  1. Who Killed Cock Robin
  2. Wigglin'
  3. Music Forever
  4. Time To Smile
  5. Theme For Sister Salvation
  6. Jim Dunn's Dilema
  7. O.D.