CD 1
The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony I
Dear Friend
Zuli
Julius Hemphill Band Introduction
At Harmony
Air Rings
Dimples: The Fat Lady on Parade

CD 2
The Julius Hemphill/Abdul Wadud Duo
Syntax
Tightening
Slang
Unknown Title
Rhapsody
Downstairs

CD 3
The Janus company
Opener
#3
#4-Improvisation-#2
Collective Improvisation
Dogon A.D.

CD 4
Chamber Music
Parchment
Mingus Gold
Unknown Title n° &
Unknown Title n° 2

CD 5
Roi Boyé solo and text
Trills
Unfiltered Dreams
Nobody Tells Me What to Do
Rapture Is the Rupture We Are Looking For
Compute The Dolphins
In Periods of Trance
Why I Left St. Louis Soliloquy
Power Dance
Soweto 1976, A Suite in Five Voices
Solo soprano Saxophone with "Bells" recording

CD 6
The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony II
K.C. Line
Testament #5
Song suite
Pigskin
For Billie (For Billie Holiday)
One/Waltz/Time+

CD 7
Live at Joyous Lake
Mirrors
Dung
Julius Hemphill Band Introduction
Would Boogie

Abdul Wadud, violoncelle
Baidika Carroll, trompette
Alex Cline, batterie, percussion
Ursula Oppens, piano
Malinké Elliott, récitant
Jerome Harris, basse électrique
John Purcell, hautbois, saxophone ténor , clarinette basse
Marty Ehrlich, saxophones, clarinettes
Janet Grice, basson
Bruce Purse, trompette
Ray Anderson, trombone, tuba
The JAH Band

Julius Hemphill, saxophone alto
Nels Cline, guitare
Alan Jaffe, guitare
Steuart Liebig, basse électrique
Alex Cline, batterie

The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony

Julius Hemphill, saxophone alto, saxophone ténor
Baidika Carroll, trompette
Jehri Riley, guitare
Philip Wilson, batterie
Dave Holland, basse
Jack DeJohnette, batterie, mélodica

Daedalus Quartet
Julius Hemphill Trio

Julius Hemphill, saxophone alto
Abdul Wadud, violoncelle
Michael Carvin, batterie

Julius Hemphill Quartet

Julius Hemphill, saxophone alto, saxophone ténor
Olu Dara, trompette
Abdul Wadud, violoncelle
Warren smith, batterie

Julius Hemphill Quintet

Julius Hemphill, saxophone soprano
John Carter, clarinette
Baikida Carroll, trompette
Roberto Miranda, basse
Alex cline, batterie

Julius Hemphill, saxophones, direction

In response to the arguably self-righteous pronouncements made in the 1990s as to what jazz is and isn’t, Julius Hemphill (1938–1995) spoke up as he had done throughout his career. "Well, you often hear people nowadays talking about the tradition, tradition, tradition. But they have tunnel vision in this tradition. Because tradition in African-American music is wide as all outdoors.” This collection of music, this celebration of artistic collaborations that engaged Julius Hemphill throughout his life, adds much to what we know of his creativity in exploring the implications in that wide space. His work, done in what was not much more than twenty-five years, illuminated so many byways of that protean tradition, created in America against the direst of odds. Equally vital, Julius claimed, with great passion, his space to be expressive. He worked inward as much as he looked outward, in his artistic creativity and cultural engagements. This box set contains musical compositions and performances that have come to light from the Julius Hemphill Archive at the Fales Library of New York University. These performances present thirty-five Hemphill compositions culled from close to 180 audio and visual documents of his work. Twenty-five of these works did not receive a commercial recording in his lifetime. Also represented in this box set are ensemble contexts Julius formed which did not receive substantial, or in some cases, any public documentation. These performances put Julius’s improvisational work as a saxophonist and flutist to the fore, from solo to quintet contexts. (The one exception being Disc 4, where we hear pieces Julius wrote for others to interpret.) Equally important, these performances deepen our experience of Julius’s long associations in artistic collaboration.