Hemphill, Julius- Dogan A.D.
"Julius Hemphill's debut record, 1972's Dogon A.D., was self-produced for his Mbari imprint, and it was issued with a beautiful black-and-white cover. Very DIY. The label's name writ large along the bottom edge, like it was the band's name. It's a quartet record featuring Hemphill on alto and flute, with Baikida Carroll on trumpet, Abdul Wadud on cello, and Phillip Wilson on drums - a classic jazz front line/rhythm section format, but nothing conventional about the way the music sounds."The long track - from where the LP takes it's title - is one of the key epic statements of new jazz in the era. Among it's remarkable distinctions, it manages to draw on Wilson's schizoid experience having been a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the first drummer for the Art Ensemble of Chicago, in making an 11/8 rhythm into a staggeringly funky thing of joy. Over the course of fourteen and a half minutes, Hemphill builds a nearly continuous solo, his spiritual blood brother Wadud sawing the cello with a deep blues soulfulness that is raw and mantra-like in it's repetitive incantation. It feels right and wrong in equal measure, the theme carrying it's own piquancy with honked barnyard dissonances and some contrary motion between the horns and string. Most of all, it takes it's own sweet time, in no hurry to get anywhere in particular, but out for a righteous stroll."- John Corbett (excerpt from the liner notes)
Tracklist:
- Dogon A.D
- Rites
- the Painter
UPC > 857661008537
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Superior Viaduct
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Hemphill, Julius- Dogan A.D.
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Release Date: 03.06.2026
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"Julius Hemphill's debut record, 1972's Dogon A.D., was self-produced for his Mbari imprint, and it was issued with a beautiful black-and-white cover. Very DIY. The label's name writ large along the bottom edge, like it was the band's name. It's a quartet record featuring Hemphill on alto and flute, with Baikida Carroll on trumpet, Abdul Wadud on cello, and Phillip Wilson on drums - a classic jazz front line/rhythm section format, but nothing conventional about the way the music sounds."The long track - from where the LP takes it's title - is one of the key epic statements of new jazz in the era. Among it's remarkable distinctions, it manages to draw on Wilson's schizoid experience having been a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the first drummer for the Art Ensemble of Chicago, in making an 11/8 rhythm into a staggeringly funky thing of joy. Over the course of fourteen and a half minutes, Hemphill builds a nearly continuous solo, his spiritual blood brother Wadud sawing the cello with a deep blues soulfulness that is raw and mantra-like in it's repetitive incantation. It feels right and wrong in equal measure, the theme carrying it's own piquancy with honked barnyard dissonances and some contrary motion between the horns and string. Most of all, it takes it's own sweet time, in no hurry to get anywhere in particular, but out for a righteous stroll."- John Corbett (excerpt from the liner notes)
Tracklist:
- Dogon A.D
- Rites
- the Painter
UPC > 857661008537
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Superior Viaduct
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.