Worshippers Come Nigh

Worshippers Come Nigh is the fourth album led by saxophonist Charles Brackeen which was recorded in 1987 and released on the Swedish Silkheart label.^[1][2]

Worshippers Come Nigh
Studio album by Charles Brackeen Quartet
Released	1988
Recorded	November 28, 1987
Studio	Omega Audio, Dallas, TX
Genre	Jazz
Length	55:32
Label	Silkheart SHLP 111
Producer	Dennis González
Charles Brackeen chronology
Attainment (1987) Worshippers Come Nigh (1988)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Los Angeles Times	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[5]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz notes ""Worhippers on Nigh" is as exciting a jazz piece as any in the catalogue, underpinned by Hopkin's fine touch and Cyrille's percussion".^[5] In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow states "All of the Silkheart sets are worth picking up, but this one (due to its extra intensity and the five particularly strong Brackeen originals) gets a slight edge. Brackeen's passionate playing shows that free jazz was still very much alive (if underground) in the 1980s".^[3] In the Los Angeles Times Don Snowden wrote "No one has shone brighter than veteran saxophonist Charles Brackeen in the excellent series presenting "the new American jazz" from Sweden's Silkheart label. The compositions onWorshippers Come Nigh, Brackeen's third album taken from a 1987 session in Dallas, follow a simple pattern—brief unison readings of the themes and then off on extended, free-wheeling improvisations. But with Olu Dara's tart, pithy cornet giving a wild and woolly edge to Brackeen's spiritual tenor tone, drummer Andrew Cyrille's canny propulsion and bassist Fred Hopkins ranging through the sound like an All-Star center fielder, the results are uniformly heady and invigorating"^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Brackeen.

1. "Worshippers Come Nigh" – 7:51
2. "Bannar" – 8:06
3. "Tiny Town" – 9:00
4. "Ible" – 10:51
5. "Cing Kong" – 10:28
6. "Newsstand" [Take 1] – 9:16 Bonus track on CD release

Personnel

• Charles Brackeen – tenor saxophone
• Olu Dara – cornet
• Fred Hopkins – bass
• Andrew Cyrille – drums, congas
• Dennis González – pao de chuva

References

1. Silkheart Records catalog, accessed February 11, 2017
2. Jazzlists: Silkheart records discography, accessed February 11, 2017
3. Yanow, Scott. Worshippers Come Nigh – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
4. Snowden, D., Los Angeles Times Review, accessed February 11, 2017
5. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (1996). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (3rd ed.). London: Penguin. p. 155. ISBN 0-14-051368-X.