The Allan Chase Quartet

b. Phoenix, Az, USA. Alto and soprano saxophonist Allan Run after relocated to Boston in 1980 to review with pianist Jaki Byard. Oddly enough, when he found record within the 90s, it had been quite definitely piano items that educated his musical doctrine, leading some critics to spell it out his Dark Clouds With Metallic Linings set like a ‘pianoless record of piano items.’ One of the music collected were items by performers as diverse as Lorraine Geller, Sunlight Ra, Bud Powell and Horace Metallic. By this time around Chase had founded his name carrying out within the John Coltrane -affected group Prima Materia, alongside Rashied Ali. He previously also created an ethnomusicology thesis on Sunlight Ra for his grasp’s level. His additional musical actions included using the well-regarded Boston four-piece, TOWN Saxophone Quartet, along with a stint in NY within Walter Thompson’s big music group. Dark Clouds With Metallic Linings was his try to create himself being a single artist instead of just to embellish his developing reputation being a collaborator. It highlighted long-standing affiliates Ron Horton (trumpet), Tony Scherr (bass) and Matt Wilson (drums), so when DownBeat magazine observed, shown ‘a pristine melodicism and roomy sense of your time.’