"The spirit of the performance here is uncompromising in its devotion to Wright's desire to make music that had been heretofore unheard, and to take willing listeners to places in their minds and souls to which they had never been before, and would never get to go to again. The term 'outside' that was frequently used to describe free music at the time, is particularly appropriate to Wright's sound, for it is truly aiming to soar out of this world. When his saxophone enters the fray, screaming and squealing at the top of its register and roaring and bellowing in its bottom, it is seeking to express that which cannot be expressed in words - the infinite power of the soul." - Russ Musto, 2006 |