World Experience Orchestra

THE PLANET Experience Orchestra was an underground jazz collective led by bassist, composer, and arranger John Jamyll Jones and was active on the fertile Boston scene between your early 1970s and the first ’80s. A workshop group, their audio wed avant-garde, modal, and religious soul-jazz to post-bop. The lineup included from nine to 18 players and performers. During its life, the WEO released two privately pressed albums: 1975’s The start of a New Delivery (recorded inside a chapel cellar), and 1980’s As Period Flows On, on the Globe Productions label. Nearly impossibly uncommon and popular by collectors, fascination with the group was internationally rekindled when Gilles Peterson included “The Prayer” (which composed an entire part of the debut recording) on his 2005 compilation Gilles Peterson Digs America. A bootleg edition of The start of a New Delivery made an appearance briefly on Funky World. Now-Again officially released As Period Moves On (with involvement from its makers) through its membership Now-Again Reserve series inside a deluxe multi-disc bundle during the summer season of 2016.