Herb Boyd

A few years ago, pre-moog synthesizer, and long before the dawning of the “age of aquarius,” Detroiters were known to cluster at the various points of departure in order to cheerfully bon voyage their young ambassadors of jazz, whose responsibility it was to saturate the land with sounds ( pan-euphoniously?). Anyway, the story goes, they were supremely successful and with their talents garnered for their city a most enviable reputation...

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The Third World—Gato Barbieri (Flying Dutchman); Power To The People—Joe Henderson (Milestone); Liberation Music Orchestra—Charlie Haden (Impulse); The Prisoner—Herbie Hancock (Blue Note); The Giant Is Awakened—Horace Tapscott (Flying Dutchman); A Night At Santa Rita—Rosko (Flying Dutchman); Massacre At My Lai—Rosko (Flying Dutchman); Spirits Known And Unknown—Leon Thomas (Flying Dutchman).

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