Chromatology

UpSurge! | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 1, 2003)
• Original Release Date: July 4, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Abolition Media
• ASIN: B0000BXB4T
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,195 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Medicine Man

2. Ms BC

3. Last Time I Saw Sonny

4. A Child’s Question(s)

5. Abbey’s House (for Abbey Lincoln)

6. Ancestors

7. Sheet Music

8. S-K-I-N

9. The Wedding

10. Lagunitas

11. Cape Coast Rooster (for JoeSam.)

12. Chromatology

13. The Game

14. O-H (Operation Homefront)

15. My Laugh

Editorial Reviews

Lewis Sawyer, KPFA 94.1 FM

Great body of work!

Product Description

Chromatology is music and words worth your money and time. It's like three CDs in one. This disc will gratify your jazz, pop and political cravings. Chromatology's a sonic Swiss army knife with 15 tracks of conscious words, assorted grooves and feels for your thinking, marching, and dancing. It does everything but open your wine, slice your cheese, and clip your nails.

This landmark release showcases jazz instrumentation fused with provocative wordplay. It's rooted in the tradition of Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets. While honoring that tradition, Chromatology's message is very, very NOW! It's a dash of New York, a hint of L.A. (UpSurge! co-leaders hail from both coasts). It's muscular and playful, tender and serene.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Poetry In Motion!, October 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Chromatology (Audio CD)

UpSurge is poetry, jazz, politics, and the emotion that can be generated by each of these all rolled into one! Raymond Nat Turner and Ziggy Lowenberg and their amazing ensemble including incredible guest artists bring to their second CD energy, spirit, and love of language and music. Each cut provides a new experience, one which you'll want to come back to over and over. This is an amazing West Coast based group that must be heard by music enthusiasts across the country...and then around the World!