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Bob James Trio, "Explosions"

BOB JAMES made his recording debut as leader of a trio on May 10, 1965, with Engineer Art Crist at Bell Sound Studios. He provided art work for the front cover to ESP. It was a photograph of a portion of a poster he had observed on a wall in Australia. JAMES is known to be proud of this early recording.

From Willy Roggeman's liner notes: "The recording is made of an assembly of estranging electronic sound effects, trite sports commentaries, and the music of a beautifully improvising jazz trio. Bob James has, through this convulsion of out-of-context sound elements and music of a trio, tried to emphasize the strange acoustic complex of modern man in his city, in his world, in his cosmos."


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