Boscoe

Chicago's South Side was the absolute epicenter of African-American creativity. In any other city, at any other time, they might've been a monstrously important band, but in the early 1970s, Boscoe was lost in the flurry of acts exploding musical genres to form Great Black Music. While the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra's Arkestra and Phil Cohran's Artistic Heritage Ensemble led the charge away from mainstream culture, past the borders and boundaries of commercial music, Boscoe's lone album was denied inclusion into the canon of Great Black Music only by it's obscurity. An outsider even in an outsider subculture. This is a fine album of Conscious Jazz Funk that sits somewhere between Last Poets, Bama the Village Poet and Antibalas releases.