Mirage

by The Awakening

Mirage cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1973
  • Label: Black Jazz
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 47:02
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Ken Chaney, Steve Galloway, Anita Jeffries, Drasheer Khalid, Ari Brown, Rufus Reid, Gene Russell, Frank Gordon, Reggie Willis, Benjamin Wright

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released on the seminal Black Jazz Records imprint, the second album by this Chicago-based collective is a sublime, deeply conscious exploration of spiritual jazz and heavy soul-funk. Featuring intricate, highly syncopated electric basslines and soaring, exploratory horn arrangements, the group perfectly balances accessible, rhythmic grooves with expansive, post-bop improvisation. The record remains a crucial, highly influential document of the 1970s Black creative music renaissance.

Genres

Descriptors: percussive, soulful, spirituality, political, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Mode For D.D. (5:37)
  2. The Ultimate Frontier (9:54)
  3. Just A Little Peace (5:08)
  4. Slinky (6:10)
  5. Mirage (8:31)
  6. Glory To The Sun (6:12)
  7. March On (5:30)

Credits

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