In: Sanity

In: Sanity
In: Sanity
Studio album by The 360 Degree Music Experience
Released	1976
Recorded	March 8 & 9, 1976
Genre	Jazz
Length	78:36
Label	Black Saint
The 360 Degree Music Experience chronology

In: Sanity is an album by American jazz group The 360 Degree Music Experience led by drummer Beaver Harris and pianist Dave Burrell recorded in 1976 for the Italian Black Saint label.^[1]

Reception[edit]

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album four stars, calling it "Improvisational music with world music touches... An essential purchase for the adventurous listener".^[2] The Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide also gave it four stars.^[3] Musichound Jazz called it "one of their best albums": "Typically wide ranging, it includes one certified classic: 'Sahara,' in which a steel pan orchestra meets collective jazz improvisation."^[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[5]

Track listing[edit]

"Tradewinds" (Dave Burrell) - 6:31
"In: Sanity Suite Part I: Skull Job" (Baver Harris) - 6:46
"In: Sanity Suite Part II: TM's Top" (Harris) - 4:25
"In: Sanity Suite Part III: Complete Operation" (Harris) - 18:42
"Open" (Harris) 21:30
"Full, Deep and Mellow" (Hamiet Bluiett) - 6:31
"Sahara" (Francis Haynes) - 9:15

Recorded at Generation Sound Studios in New York City on March 8 & 9, 1976

Personnel[edit]

Beaver Harris - drums
Dave Burrell - piano, organ, celeste
Keith Marks - flute
Azar Lawrence - tenor saxophone
Hamiet Bluiett - baritone saxophone, alto clarinet, flute
Cecil McBee - bass
Sunil Garg - sitar
Titos Sompa - conga
Steel Ensemble: Francis Haynes, Roger Sardinha, Coleridge Barbour, Alston Jack, Michael Sorzano, Lawrence McCarthy - steel drums (track 7)

References[edit]

^ Black Saint Records discography accessed May 6, 2011
^ ^a ^b Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed January 24, 2023
^ John Swenson, Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide (Random House, 1999: ISBN 0679768734), p. 292.
^ Steve Holtje, Nancy Ann Lee (eds.), Musichound Jazz (Schirmer Trade Books, 2001: ISBN 0825672538), p. 526.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 96. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Black_Saint_Records_discography-1] Black Saint Records discography accessed May 6, 2011

[Allmusic-2] Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed January 24, 2023

[3] John Swenson, Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide (Random House, 1999: ISBN 0679768734), p. 292.

[4] Steve Holtje, Nancy Ann Lee (eds.), Musichound Jazz (Schirmer Trade Books, 2001: ISBN 0825672538), p. 526.

[RSJRG-5] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 96. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

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v t e Dave Burrell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	High Won-High Two (1968) Echo (1969) La Vie de Bohème (released 1969) After Love (1970) In: Sanity (The 360 Degree Music Experience, 1976) Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk (1978) Lush Life (1978) Windward Passages (hatART, 1979) Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981 (1981) The Jelly Roll Joys (1990) Recital (and Tyrone Brown, 2000) Expansion (2003) Consequences (2005) Margy Pargy (2005) Momentum (2005)
With David Murray	Hope Scope (1987) Ballads (1988) Deep River (1988) Lovers (1988) Lucky Four (1988) Spirituals (1988) Tenors (1988) Daybreak (Burrell, 1989) Remembrances (1990) Death of a Sideman (1991) In Concert (1991) Picasso (1992) Brother to Brother (1993)
With Archie Shepp	For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Body and Soul (1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) U-Jaama (Unite) (1975) Lover Man (1988)
With others	Three for Shepp (Marion Brown, 1966) I Plan to Stay a Believer (William Parker, 2001–08) Essence of Ellington (William Parker, 2012) Epitome (Odean Pope, 1993) Black Woman (Sonny Sharrock, 1969)