Drum Ode

A thunderous recording by saxophonist Liebman from the year 1974. Here the American saxophonist – and friends Abercrombie and Beirach – are flanked by no less than eight drummers and percussionists. To listen to "Drum Ode" is to swim in waves of rhythms, cross-rhythms, polyrhythms, to be carried along by tidal beats. At the time when he made "Drum Ode", Liebman was playing with the Miles Davis Group in its most electric/tribal groove period, and Miles’s influence is clearly discernible here.