Noah Howard was a pioneer of free jazz and a friend who I met and played with in the early seventies.This recording from 1972 wasn't available to me for nearly forty years but was re-released as a CD in 2004. Last week I downloaded last two more recordings from that same night at the Village Vanguard which Noah may have played on European radio and found their way to a German blog.Frank and Rashid split the scene and last month,September 4th,2010,Noah also died. I think that Juma ,another guy I met through Jimi Hendrix ,is still alive . I am not too sure about Earl.
I edited several of the cuts ,taking off the spoken introduction , shortening some of the downloaded MP3s,and attempting to give some higher frequency regeneration to the entire product that I fit into a 77:17 minute long CD.We played the Vanguard for about two months of Sundays before the recording . Noah moved to Belguim and occasionally returned to the States for short appearances . He will be missed by us all.
