Originally posted April 24, 2009 and June 6, 2016
Cover to the recording Werewolf (Harvest, 1970)
Recorded live at the 1970 Montreux Jazz Festival
The Fourth Way - New Orleans House 1968
Supurb soundboard @vbr
Vinyl rip?
Vinyl rip?
The Fourth Way was a jazz ensemble composed of Eddie Marshall, Mike Nock, Michael White, and Ron McClure. Like their contemporaries Weather Report, they were early pioneers of electric jazz fusion, with Nock's Fender Rhodes piano run through many effects pedals including ring modulation, Michael White's electrically amplified violin, and Ron McClure's electric bass. They formed in 1967 and worked primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area through the early 1970s, releasing three albums.
Michael White took up the violin when he was nine years old. He first became known in 1965 when he played with the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and recorded three albums with Handy. White was among the first to play the violin in avant-garde jazz, and in the late 1960s became one of the first jazz violinists to play jazz rock fusion (with his band Fourth Way). He has played with musicians such as Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Prince Lasha, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Eric Dolphy, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Dorham, Joe Henderson, and Richard Davis.
Track List:
01 - The Sun And Moon Have Come Together
02 - Ebony Plaza
03 - Blues My Mind
04 - Farewell Goodbye
05 - Skiffling
06 - Strange Love
Just to good to pass up, don't miss this!
