Compost - Compost 1972

Jack DeJohnette is best known as drummer with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis and for his two albums "DeJohnette Complex" and "Have You Heard", recorded in Japan. Jack Gregg has collaborated musically with Steve Swallow, Jeanne Lee, Marion Brown, and the Youngbloods. Bob Moses has played and recorded with the Free Sprits, Gary Burton, Rahsann Roland Kirk, Mose Allison, Sea Train, and Gunter Hampel. He is a founder of Free Life ommunications, a self determination musicians' cooperative. Jumma Santos has appeared with Nina Simone, the Four Tops, Ahmad Jamal, Trini Lopez, and Roy Ayers, and on Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew".



He also teaches ethnomusicology in Boston. Harold Vick's experience as a tenor saxophonist and woodwind player includes work with Ruth Brown, Lloyd Price, Ray Charles, Philly Joe Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, King Curtis, Grant Green, Walter Bishop Jr., The Negro Ensemble Company, the Jean Erdman Theater of Dance, and Aretha Franklin. He has written for TV and films and composed the music for the Black Experience Family Repertory Company. His albums are "Steppin' Out", "The Carribean Suite", "Straight Up", and "Watch What Happens".

Jack DeJohnette: Electric Clavinet, Organ, Vibes, Drums on "Happy Peace"
"Compost is people sandwiches, tushees, love, hassles,
magic, Brian, work, learning, phone calls, love, music,
music, London, love, parties, city and country and hope."

Jack Gregg: Bass
"Nature's oven. Organic matter cooked into a natural
fertilizer to feed the earth that feeds the crops that feed
us. It's live. Happy Peace."

Bob Moses: Drums, Vocal
"Welcum ooh thuh nude ear dance
mon scoochie borootoos
airy foundation beam
liberation scream steam
glisten ooh hour music
basketball in thuh sky
making love to nature
rhythms god u high
make music to help people
HEAR THE COLORS AND FEEL THE LIGHT
thank you again my eternal friend."

Jumma Santos: Congas, Percussion.
"Dynamite!"

Harold Vick: Tenor Saxophone, Flute.
"A new dream, a new scheme."


1. Take Off Your Body (Bob Moses)
2. Thinkin' (Jack DeJohnette)
3. Bwaata (Bob Moses/Jack DeJohnette)
4. Happy Peace (Jack DeJohnette)
5. Country Song (Jack Gregg/Jack DeJohnette)
6. Sweet Berry Wine (J. DeJohnette/B. Moses/H. Vick/J. Santos/J. Gregg)
7. Funky Feet (J. DeJohnette/B. Moses/H. Vick/J. Santos/J. Gregg)
8. Inflation Blues (Jack DeJohnette)


Produced and recorded by Martin Rushent