The Wire (p.68) - "Every member of the quartet is on top form throughout, and gets plenty of space to showcase their particular contribution to the screaming, pulsing whole."
Down Beat (p.66) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[Bobby Few] dominates the music with manic surges and dizzying runs....Exhilarating and impassioned..."
JazzTimes (p.122) - "[T]here is much beauty to discover here, as is usually the case with such demon-exorcising music."
Personnel: Frank Wright (tenor saxophone); Bobby Few (piano); Alan Silva (bass instrument); Muhammad Ali (drums).
Liner Note Author: Russ Musto.
The late tenor saxophonist Frank Wright (1935-1990) was a disciple of the intense, uninhibited avant-garde masters Albert Ayler and (post-1965) John Coltrane. Wright, finding Europe more receptive to his music, relocated to France, and UNITY was recorded live at a 1974 festival in Moers, Germany. Accompanied by fellow ex-pat avant-aces pianist Bobby Few (later to join Steve Lacy's band), bassist Alan Silva, and drummer Muhammad Ali (no, not the legendary boxer), Wright wails at length with cathartic, gospel-inspired forcefulness.