THE OAKLAND ELEMENTARY ARKESTRA

From Bandcamp :

Unless you attended elementary school in Oakland, California in 1997, you probably had no idea that this meeting of elementary school music students and improvisational jazz luminaries existed.

Working within and beyond the vision of elementary school music teacher Randy Porter, The Thornhill Sound presents the odyssey of 4th, 5th & 6th grade students from novice musicians into an avant garde ensemble. The extremely rare, once cassette only, The Thornhill Sound features 29 mini opuses of imprecise, meditative, ethereal soundclouds of wonder and joy, the children were joined by such luminaries as Terry Riley, Fred Frith, Dave Slusser, and Dave Gordon, Tyrone Hill, & Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra! Among these amazing interplanetary improv pieces are a few Sun Ra covers. Highlights of this cassette combined with the Big Music, Little Musicians recordings went on to form The Saga Of Padani.

Data has been added to the United Mutations Archives.


-- info : Danny Mathys