CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUINTET
As of August 1972, CJQ is Charles Moore, trumpet & flugelhorn; Ken Cox, pianos; Ron Brooks, basses; Dan Spencer, percussion; Bud Spangler, percussion; Ron English, guitars. “CJQ” is a primary musical vector, within Strata Corporation, a multimedia group wihich maintains a continuously developing environment at 46 Selden in Detroit, where live concerts and other productions are made.
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FORMS/KINETICS Water as rain stone as sand sound as rhythm: space — and motion along the natural lines of force, the dynamics of the moment (backlit and driven from inside, soul’s energy).
Wind thru rain, traffic thick and fast thru the interchanges, heart’s wet beat in the heat of the dance: forms/kinetics.
The truth is always present in any “idiom.”
How can the music come, except thru the players & hearers, as their spirit/meat has come to be, now?
As of August 1972, CJQ is Charles Moore, trumpet & flugelhorn; Ken Cox, pianos; Ron Brooks, basses; Dan Spencer, percussion; Bud Spangler, percussion; Ron English, guitars.
“CJQ” is a primary musical vector, within Strata Corporation, a multimedia group wihich maintains a continuously developing environment at 46 Selden in Detroit, where live concerts and other productions are made. The artisans of Strata (musicians, teachers, radio/tv/ recording production people, writers, graphic and environmental artists) found it necessary to organize themselves as a vehicle for determining their own destinies, affecting the conditions surrounding their work, and bringing personal and artistic integrity to ventures founded on the arts. Strata has been on the case since mid ’69, doing productions and extending media and production services to other groups involved in the struggle. Last year, Strata was contracted by Oberlin College to establish, staff and maintain a jazz and other Black music education program. Strata’s brother corporation in New York, Strata East, has released five albums to date, by Music Inc., Clifford Jordan, Keno Duke and* others. More are in preparation, including CJQ (whose first two albums were under the Blue Note label, now a subsidiary of the TransAmerica conglomerate, dig it).
CJQ will appear occasionally throughout an extensive ’12-13 season of presentations at the Strata Concert Gallery (46 Selden in Detroit). The series will involve presentations primarily by Michigan-based artists in a broad spectrum of idioms and media.
