Shannon Jackson, The Decoding Society
Nasty (LP)
LabelMoers MusicGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX
Obi included.
Ronald Shannon Jackson had played drums for Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman before he started the Decoding Society, which means he had absorbed just about every available approach to free playing and then decided to attach all of it to a backbeat. Nasty is harmolodic funk at full volume: two guitars, two basses, horn lines that lurch and double back, and Jackson underneath playing marching-band figures with a Texas blues undertow. Chaotic on the surface, ferociously organised underneath. There was nothing else remotely like this band in 1981 and there still is not.
Original German pressing on Moers Music, the label attached to the festival that kept documenting this music when nobody else would.
Release notes
Recorded at: The Hit Factory - New York, N.Y. 23rd to 27th March 1981 Back cover: P + C Burkhard Hennen Publishing 1981 Manufactured in W.-Germany Disc labels: Manufactured in Germany Ⓟ + Ⓒ Burkhard Hennen Publishing 1981
| A1 | Small World | 3:20 | |
| A2 | Black Widow | 10:18 | |
| A3 | Sweet Natalie | 5:01 | |
| B1 | Nasty | 5:55 | |
| B2 | When We Return | 11:39 |
- Byard Lancaster
- Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Piccolo Flute
- Ronald Shannon Jackson
- Composed By, Arranged By, Drums
- Jürgen Pankarz
- Design [Cover]
- Melvin Gibbs
- Electric Bass
- Bruce Johnson
- Electric Bass
- Vernon Reid
- Electric Guitar
- SST
- Lacquer Cut By
- Axel Markens
- Mastered By
- Deborah Feingold
- Photography By
- Burkhard Hennen
- Producer
- Ted Spencer
- Recorded By
- Charles Brackeen
- Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
- Lee Rozie
- Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
- Khan Jamal
- Vibraphone [Vibes]
