Pre-Order: Matt Slocum * Revolving Alliance [New LP] Metal This is Roland Kirk in

This is Roland Kirk in his most competent and visionary form

Punk-funk provocateur Betty Davis' 1974 sophomore album They Say I'm Different features a worthy-of-framing futuristic cover challenging David Bowie's science fiction funk with real rocking soul-fire

Just how ideally this music fits in with the workshop atmosphere of the Marlboro Summer Music Festival is fully evident here

Exclusive limited edition clear vinyl reissue of this Pentagram classic

Pre-Order: Matt Slocum * Revolving Alliance [New LP] Metal This is Roland Kirk inA Revolving Alliance has multiple meanings, of course. It revisits some of the broader themes of hope and despair (as they relate to American society) that were part of Slocum's recording With Love and Sadness (Sunnyside, 2021). But that record, commissioned by Chamber Music America's New Jazz Works program and composed as a single suite with multiple movements, was focused more specifically on systemic racism in America. A Revolving Alliance 'deals