100% Humility

 

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - Morning Prayer (excerpt)

We'll continue backloading March some more, this time with -- surprise, surprise -- another classic Jazz berfday.

This guy, who is criminally unsung, would have been 89 today. I'd have waited for 90, but that's a whole year away!

We'll keep this short because, in keeping with the obscurity quotient, there aren't a whole lotta pix of him.

An original AACM cat, he began in the Free Jazz scene in Chicago in the 1960s and soon got involved playing with other luminaries of that time and place, like Roscoe Mitchell and Muhal Richard Abrams.

It wasn't long before he was leading his own groups and recording seminal platters like Humility In the Light of Creator and Forces and Feelings.

He spent a good deal of the late 1970s and beyond battling addiction issues, but kept playing until he passed away in 2013.

Anyway I have always wanted to put him on here, so today's the day to celebrate the tremendous Maurice McIntyre, whom the world knew simply as Kalaparusha.

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre

Europe 1976/1977

01 unidentified medley & improvisations

Kalaparusha & The Light

Jazztage 1976, Berlin DE 11.4.1976

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - tenor saxophone & clarinet

Juma Sultan - bass, african drums, horns, congas & percussion

John Betsch - drums

320/48k audio of indeterninate origin sourced from an HD YouTube file

spectral analysis is lossless to and stops at 15 kHz, so probably from an FM broadcast

converted to 16/44 CD Audio & remastered by EN, March 2025

02 Morning Prayer

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre Quartet

Jazzpulsations, Nancy FR 10.11.1977

Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - tenor saxophone

Ahmed Abdullah - trumpet

Brian Smith - bass

Charlie Persip - drums

1st gen cassette of the original ORTF FM broadcast

remastered by EN, March 2025

Total time: 53:54
329 MB FLAC/direct link

I'll be back in 48 with something really great, so don't hesitate to repatriate, and don't be late.

Meantime, no matter where the sun is in your sky, you should get your Morning Prayer together and wish a happy birthday to Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, your new favorite tenor player!--J.

3.24.1936 - 11.9.2013