Richard Landry Solos (2xLP)

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• On February 19, 1972, a crew of mostly Louisiana-raised musicians came together at the Leo Castelli Gallery on West Broadway in Soho to perform a wholly improvised concert. This ensembles solos spring from collective improvisations and a tumultuous backbeat, loosely inspired by the creations of Coltrane, Coleman, Albert Ayler, and their brethren. The de facto leader was Richard Dickie Landry, a saxophonist and keyboardist who joined composer Philip Glasss group in 1969. Landry had become a fixture in downtown New Yorks loft and art scenes at the close of the 1960s, after he high-tailed it by car from Louisiana to the Lower East Side and auspiciously encountered Ornette Coleman at the Village Gate the night of his arrival.

  For this concert, fellow Glass reedists Jon Smith and Richard Pe