{"title":"The 360 Degree Music Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBeaver Harris had been playing drums for barely five years when he moved to New York in 1963, was encouraged by Max Roach to pursue music seriously, and started working his way through the free jazz scene, recording with Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Marion Brown and Roswell Rudd before the decade was out. In 1968, Harris, trombonist Grachan Moncur III and pianist Dave Burrell formed the 360 Degree Music Experience as a cooperative, a rotating ensemble built deliberately around the idea that jazz could hold African, Caribbean and Asian music inside the same performance without any of them losing their specificity. The membership shifted constantly across the 1970s and 1980s, with Hamiet Bluiett, Jimmy Garrison, Ron Carter, Ricky Ford, Buster Williams and Don Pullen all passing through, but Harris and the concept remained constant: a band that genuinely meant the name. \"In:Sanity\" (Black Saint, 1976), the double album recorded at Generation Sound Studios in New York across two days in March of that year, remains the most collected entry in their discography. It brought Bluiett on baritone saxophone, Cecil McBee on bass, Azar Lawrence on tenor, Dave Burrell on piano, organ and celesta, Sunil Garg on sitar, Titos Sompa on congas, and a six-player steel drum ensemble arranged by Francis Haynes, across four sides that moved between free improvisation, Caribbean melody and something that had no prior name. Harris died on 22 December 1991, aged 55.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-360-degree-music-experience-in-sanity-1976-japanese-black-saint-vinyl-2lp-gatefold","title":"The 360 Degree Music Experience - In:Sanity (1976 Japanese Black Saint Vinyl 2LP Gatefold)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinyl:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eEX\/EX\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSleeve:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eVG+\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObi:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur grading system explained \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dpbg4u-d1.myshopify.com\/pages\/secondhand-grading-guide\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003ePhoto is of the actual item.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 360 Degree Music Experience - \u003cem\u003eIn:Sanity\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl 2LP Gatefold - 1976 Japanese Black Saint (JC 7024\/25, Tokuma Musical Industries)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeaver Harris played baseball before he played drums. He was a teenager in the Kansas City Monarchs and was scouted by the Brooklyn Dodgers before serving in the Army and arriving in New York in 1963, where Max Roach encouraged him to commit to music. He played with Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk, and founded the 360 Degree Music Experience as a cooperative built on the idea that free jazz shouldn't turn its back on tradition. The ensemble's founding members included Dave Burrell, Cecil McBee, Jimmy Garrison (Coltrane's bassist), Hamiet Bluiett, and two singular presences: Francis Haynes on steel drums and Titos Sompa on congas. The \"360 degrees\" in the name means what it says. No genre boundaries, no limits on instrumentation, no distinction between old and new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide A opens with \"Tradewinds\" before moving into the first two parts of the \"In:Sanity Suite,\" a three-part work arranged and conducted by Harris, Burrell, Bluiett and Haynes. The suite is structured loosely: composed themes alternate with open improvisations, and the soloists rotate through the ensemble. Side B completes the suite with \"Complete Operation,\" the most dense section, with individual spotlights for Bluiett, Lawrence, Garg and McBee emerging from collective passages. Side C is a single piece: \"Open (For James Garrison),\" dedicated to the bassist who was a founding member of the ensemble. Garrison died on April 7, 1976, less than a month after this recording was made. Side D opens with \"Full, Deep and Mellow\" and closes with \"Sahara,\" where the full steel drum orchestra (Haynes conducting a six-piece pan ensemble including Roger Sardinha, Coleridge Barbour and Alston Jack) meets the jazz group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the 1976 Japanese pressing on Black Saint JC 7024\/25, manufactured by Tokuma Musical Industries in a gatefold sleeve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Saint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43766972842043,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_7650.jpg?v=1783676176"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/the-360-degree-music-experience.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}