Marshall Allen turns 101 years old today. For-real 101, not some Sun Ra-Solar Myth-made-up 101 years. One hundred and one Earth revolutions around the Sun. Born in 1924, he just dropped this live album last week. So okay, he was "only" 100 when it was recorded, and okay, the drummer and bassist are younger than him, but that's Allen tearing it up on sax and that weird electronic wind instrument he sometimes plays, and bassist James McNew of Yo La Tengo may be called a lot of things, but nobody's called him "young" since the 1980s.
Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons Live in Philadelphia is a terrific album, maybe one of the best of Allen's long career and right up there with the best of the best of his Sun Ra sets. Go out and but it right now.
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