Red Warrior

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Red Warrior
File:Red Warrior.jpg
Studio album by
Released1990
GenreJazz, free jazz
LabelAxiom[1]
ProducerBill Laswell
Ronald Shannon Jackson chronology
Texas
(1987)
Red Warrior
(1990)
Taboo
(1990)

Red Warrior is an album by the American jazz drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, released in 1990.[2][3] It was rereleased by Mango Records the following year.[4]

Production

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The album was produced by Bill Laswell.[5] Jackson opted to record the album without horns, instead utilizing a three-guitar roster.[6] Red Warrior, inspired by a tour that Jackson undertook in Africa, was recorded in one day.[7]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[8]
Chicago Sun-TimesStarStarStarHalf star[9]
Robert Christgau(2-star Honorable Mention)(2-star Honorable Mention)[10]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[11]
Los Angeles TimesStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svg[12]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svg[13]
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStarStarHalf star[14]

The Washington Post thought that the guitarists "all fall into one hard-rock or funk cliché after another ... For all the volcanic energy happening at the bottom of this music, the top is so uninspired that it dooms the album."[5] The Los Angeles Times called the album "a flawed experiment," writing that Jackson "failed to solve metal's rhythmic stolidity."[12] The Chicago Sun-Times wrote that "the songs cut deeper than any Jackson has delivered since the days of his harmolodic fusion band, the Decoding Society."[9] The St. Petersburg Times relegated it to "the guitar-mag crowd."[4]

AllMusic wrote that "the mix is expanded with plenty of jazz improvisation, weaves of effects-riddled guitar lines, complex head statements, and, of course, the drummer's pan-stylistic rhythmic support."[8] Billboard called Red Warrior an "extremely uncompromising fusion" album.[15] The New York Times, in its Jackson obituary, deemed it "a fiery guitar-oriented session."[16]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Red Warrior"4:43
2."Ashes"4:40
3."Gate to Heaven"5:14
4."In Every Face"6:06
5."Elders"13:33
6."What's Not Said"4:15

Personnel

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References

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