In the spring of 2014, singer-guitarist Wayne Kramer – formerly of the Detroit revolution-rock band the MC5 – hit a weird milestone, his first Top Ten album. Lexington
, credited to Kramer and the Lexington Arts Ensemble, is an all-instrumental record; it was Top Ten on Soundscan's traditional jazz chart; and it is anything but traditional.Lexington
is fiercely progressive jazz, recalling Kramer's
late-Sixties avant-jamming nights with the MC5. The album is also a
soundtrack, Kramer's score to a new documentary, The Narcotic Farm,
about the pursuit of creative freedom inside an institution the
guitarist knew painfully well: the federal penitentiary in Lexington,
Kentucky. MORE HEREAlbum track samples HERE
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