Stunning previously unreleased document from the ferment of the New York loft era free jazz scene, with legendary violinist Billy Bang’s first group as leader captured live on 29^th May 1977 at A Day In Solidarity With Soweto: A Fund-Raiser, Harlem Fight-Back, 1 East 125^th Street, New York. The group is a remarkable ensemble, not least for the presence of the amazing, weeping saxophone tone of Bilal Abdur Rahman aka Clive Hunter who had been a member of a radical black separatist group alongside Bang and who had been wounded and arrested during a shoot-out at a botched bank job and ended up doing time in Attica where he changed his name and converted to Islam. The group also features William Parker on bass and Rashid Bakr on drums and the set opens with an astounding piece of music by Parker with Bang reading a poem dedicated to Albert Ayler that namechecks virtually every key player in underground fire music before Bang’s violin and Rahman’s saxophone kick into a wild, bluesy, radically ‘out’ hymn to the titans of the eternal now. The recording quality is fantastic and it has all of the raw, raggedy appeal of classic private press sides on Jihad or Ak-Ba. A major excavation that will appeal to anyone who digs the post-Ayler radical Wildman style of subterranean New York. Limited edition of 500 copies. Highly recommended!