Julius Hemphill - The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (2021) [7CD Box Set]

The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony is a seven-disc box set album of music by saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill. Drawn from previously unissued recordings found in the Julius Hemphill Archive at the Fales Library of New York University, and compiled by Marty Ehrlich, the album presents Hemphill in a variety of mostly live solo and group contexts recorded over a period of thirty years, beginning in 1977, and also includes a disc on which he conducts his compositions.


Tracks:

CD1: The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony I (1978-80)

1. Dear Friend – 17:37
2. Zuli – 18:21
3. Julius Hemphill Band Introduction – 00:44
4. At Harmony – 12:31
5. Air Rings – 12:32
6. Dimples: Fat Lady On Parade – 12:34


CD2: The Julius Hemphill/Abdul Wadud Duo (Unknown Date)

1. Syntax – 09:16
2. Tightenin' – 10:02
3. Slang – 10:05
4. Unknown Title – 10:24
5. Rhapsody – 10:42
6. Downstairs – 10:23


CD3: The Janus Company (1977)

1. Opener – 06:05
2. #4 – 10:28
3. #3 - Improvisation - #2 – 19:53
4. Collective Improvisation – 26:10
5. Dogon A.D. – 11:11


CD4: Chamber Music (1981/2007)

1. Parchment – 07:02
2. Mingus Gold - Nostalgia in Times Square – 04:29
3. Mingus Gold - Alice's Wonderland – 07:35
4. Mingus Gold - Better Get Hit in Your Soul – 07:11
5. Unknown Title No. 1 – 27:13
6. Unknown Title No. 2 – 10:03


CD5: Roi Boyé Solo and Text (1980-82)

1. Trills – 05:03
2. Wade in the Water – 03:48
3. Change My Clothes – 04:50
4. Nobody Tells Me What to Do – 05:55
5. Rapture Is the Rupture We Are Looking For – 05:07
6. Compute the Dolphin – 05:01
7. In Periods of Trance – 02:31
8. Why I left St. Louis Soliloquy – 08:30
9. Power Dancer – 05:27
10. Soweto 1976 - Part I: The Orator – 03:41
11. Soweto 1976 - Part II: What Are They Waiting for Me to Tell Them? – 02:48
12. Soweto 1976 - Part III: The Hipster – 04:05
13. Soweto 1976 - Part IV: The Preacher – 07:54
14. Soweto 1976 - Part V: Carnival Barker – 02:51
15. Solo Soprano Saxophone with "Bells" Recording – 07:31


CD6: The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony II (1982-86)

1. K.C. Line – 08:35
2. Testament #5 – 08:30
3. Song Suite - At Harmony – 00:50
4. Song Suite - Sixty/Sixty – 01:22
5. Song Suite - Astrid – 02:07
6. Song Suite - Mailika – 03:08
7. Song Suite - Pull It – 01:41
8. Song Suite - Rites – 00:46
9. Pigskin – 15:18
10. For Billie – 13:10
11. One/Waltz/Time – 09:39


CD7: Live at Joyous Lake (1979)

1. Mirrors – 27:16
2. Dung – 24:07
3. Julius Hemphill Band Introduction – 00:46
4. Would Boogie – 14:36