Black Horn Long Gone

This 1993 session, which stayed on the shelf until 2010, was a summit conference of first-generation Chicago avant-gardists: Anderson was joined by Art Ensemble of Chicago bassist Malachi Favors Maghostut and drummer Ajaramu J. Shelton, best known for his work on Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre’s Humility In The Light Of Creator. The title refers to a black Selmer saxophone he played in those years. Some of the tunes here — “Strut Time,” “Three On Two,” “Saxoon” — are familiar from other Anderson albums, but the versions here are concise and swinging, while retaining the essential freedom that suffused all of Anderson’s work.