Ray Anderson
Right Down Your Alley (LP)
LabelSoul NoteGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX-
The trombone had a strange couple of decades after bop, and then Ray Anderson arrived and made it sound like the funniest, dirtiest, most physically expressive instrument in the room. Right Down Your Alley is his trio with Mark Helias and Gerry Hemingway, three players out of the Anthony Braxton orbit who had figured out that free playing and a hard backbeat are not opposites. Multiphonics, plunger work, growls that come straight out of Ellington's brass section, and then a sudden turn into a melody so straight it feels like a joke at your expense. The rhythm section never plays a supporting role for more than eight bars at a time.
Original Italian Soul Note pressing, 1984. Loose, loud, technically absurd and genuinely enjoyable. Anderson at his most unbuttoned.
Release notes
Recorded February 3, 1984 Mixed February 22, 1984 at Classic Sound Studio, New York Mastered at PolyGram, Tribiano - Milano
| A1 | Tapajack | 6:15 | |
| A2 | Right Down Your Alley | 7:14 | |
| A3 | Portrait Of Mark Dresser | 6:42 | |
| B1 | Stomping On Enigmas | 5:02 | |
| B2 | Limbo | 6:19 | |
| B3 | Paucartambo | 8:25 |
- Mark Helias
- Bass
- Ted Eyes
- Design
- Gerry Hemingway
- Drums
- Gennaro Carone
- Engineer [Mastering]
- David Baker
- Engineer [Recording], Engineer [Mixing]
- Art Lange
- Liner Notes
- Leonard Cadiente
- Photography By [Back Cover]
- Andrew French
- Photography By [Front Cover]
- Giovanni Bonandrini
- Producer
- Ray Anderson
- Trombone
