Baikida Carroll Orange Fish Tears

• Baikida Carroll – Orange Fish Tears
• Baikida Carroll – Forest Scorpion
• Baikida Carroll – Rue Roger
• Baikida Carroll – D'Orléans

• 1. Orange Fish Tears
• 2. Forest Scorpion
• 3. Rue Roger
• 4. D'Orléans

In 1972, trumpeter Baikida Carroll and some of his colleagues from the Black Artists Group (more precisely saxophonist/flutist Oliver Lake, trombonist Joseph Bowie, drummer Charles "Bobo" Shaw and trumpeter Floyd LeFlore) took the advice of their friends in the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and left their native Missouri to come and discover the bright lights of Paris for themselves. The following year they would even get the chance to record their only album which would rapidly attain mythical status and a collector’s item: “In Paris, Aries 1973”.

This is an essential album if you are a fan of free-wheeling avant-garde music from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to Sonic Youth and including Shabaka Hutchings and Rob Mazurek. For those with good taste, in other words.