ZETRO

Personnel: Bert Wilson, tenor sax; Allan Praskin, alto sax; Warren Gale, trumpet; Michael Cohen, piano; Bruce Cole, bass; Zetro, drums.

Zetro is insane. On Freekin' he has everyone play the same melody, but not at the same time— one horn lags behind the other and it’s really weird. Zetro is avant-garde, which you could tell without listening to the music-from the album jacket, from the fact that it’s an ESP-Disk, from the titles and lengths of the songs. And Zetro’s a drummer, which means that if you don’t have a propensity toward that particular vehicle of music-making then you are going to be put off.

I’ve never heard of any of the people on this record and it makes one wonder how many fellow madmen are being obscured in some musky loft in New York. Or Detroit Or any other Ghost Town, USA.