ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO Theme De Yoyo

Love this opening track, a fine fusion of Funk and Avant-garde Jazz, featuring the two saxes of Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell combined with Lester Bowie's trumpet, Don Moye on Drums with Malachi Favors on Bass. The only female in the band is the legendary Fontella Bass {Rescue Me} on Vocals & Piano.
Check how the drummer and bassist lay the Funk foundation from the very opening as the Horns build and lift the tune to the Sky!
Jazz with total Freedom!. Recorded in Boulogne July 22, 1970. Lyrics :
Your head is like a yoyo,
your neck is like the string,
Your body's like a camembert
oozing from its skin.

Your fanny's like two sperm whales
floating down the Seine
Your voice is like a long fart
that's music to your brain.

Your eyes are two blind eagles
that kill what they can't see
Your hands are like two shovels
digging in me.

And your love is like an oil-well
Dig, dig, dig, dig it,
On the Champs-Elysees.

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[witchdoctor66]

This is such an amazing introduction to avantgarde jazz. I'd highly recommended it to anyone interested in the genre. After this you can't help but want The Albert Alyer Trio, Don Cherry, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus & Miles Davis.

[SuperXavier30]

@witchdoctor66 ,..Amen!

[38Avril]

It was the most avant-garde in this period.

[SuperXavier30]

@38Avril ,..Let the truth be told!

[SuperXavier30]

@Backatwon,Tell me about those lyrics!!.lol..Fontella drops them so smoothly, their strange & erotic nature just seems to gels perfectly,...especially when ones riding high on the infectious groove… Love it all!..Cheers!

[SuperXavier30]

@youaintugly ,..I fail to hear how the magnificence of this tune can be lost in a four letter word! This tune is far deeper than a mis-quote!

With respect, might I suggest you be less pedantic and just hold on tight and let the magnificent groove seep through your skin and tickle your bones. Works for me every time!

...Peace!

[CrossWiseCraig]

The four letter word in question is "fork".

[Easleytee]

@38Avril

Don't ignore Anthony Braxton in this period.

[Easleytee]

@38Avril

Don't ignore Cecil Taylor in this period.

[DobroBad]

fantastique

[youaintugly]

@SuperXavier30

song loses much magnificence if I'm really led to believe the lyric in question is 'fart'. listening you can clearly hear the --CK and not --RT. song becomes a stale parody with fart and not --CK. the --CK, for me, makes the song, partly with how she proclaims it. would be nowhere near the same emotion/tone if she were saying fart...