It is the late 1970s and recently politicized filmmaker and musician Ed Montgomery makes his way from San Francisco to New York City. His thought is to find like-minded musicians in order to create a politically-infused, free jazz-inspired performance ensemble. He starts playing in Latin groups and takes part in jam sessions at Bobo Shaw's LaMama space. He finally assembles a group of musicians and starts making some seriously funky and far-out music. In 1979, Montgomery meets Robbie McCauley, an actor and writer (she'd later win an OBIE for her work), who proved to be the perfect partner/lyricist/singer for what became the Sedition Ensemble. But McCauley wasn't the only major talents in the group. Bern Nix of Ornette Coleman's Prime Time and the Contortions played guitar. Melvin Gibbs of Defunkt, the Decoding Society, and later the Rollins Band was on bass. Ben Bierman played horns with Johnny Pacheco, Larry Harlow, Hector Lavoe and other Latin greats. Bob De Meo drummed for Jackie Byard, Eddie Gale, and high life star Souliman Rogie. With McCauley, the strong vocals of Valois Mickens and Crystal Joy, who performed with comic Steve Allen, give the Ensemble maximum soulfulness. Together and with others, the Sedition Ensemble recorded their one and only album, Regeneration Report in Brooklyn, April 1981.A1 Regeneration Report A2 Random Collisions A3 Numbered Blues A4 Duality/Contradiction B1 Tax B2 Prison Poem And La Guerra Popular B3 Digression On Triangles B4 Inside/Outside
