The Time Is Now!

Self-released on Ranelin's own Tribe label, which tells you nobody else was going to put this out with its politics and its horns this loose. The trombone leads but the ensemble writing is the real flex — dense, gospel-rooted, unafraid of noise. "Vertical Aura" is the one that still gets sampled, and rightly so. Detroit spiritual jazz doesn't get more direct than this.

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