Communications Network (album)

Communications Network
Live album by Clifford Thornton
Released	1972
Recorded	January and April, 1972
Venue	ABC Stage City, New York City, and Festival of African American Music, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Genre	Free jazz
Label	Third World Records LP 12272
Clifford Thornton chronology
The Panther and the Lash (1971) Communications Network (1972) The Gardens of Harlem (1974)

Communications Network is a live album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Clifford Thornton. The two-part composition titled "Communications Network" was recorded on January 22, 1972, at ABC Stage City in New York City, and features Thornton on electric piano and cornet, along with Lakshinarayana Shankar on violin, Sirone on bass, and Jerome Cooper on percussion. The remaining piece, "Festivals And Funerals," based on Jayne Cortez's poem of the same name, was recorded on April 17, 1972, at the Festival of African American Music at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, and features Thornton on cornet, Cortez as reciter, Nathan Davis on soprano saxophone, Jay Hoggard on vibraphone, Andy González on bass, Jerry González and Vincent George on congas and percussion, and Nicky Marrero on timbales and percussion. The album was released by Third World Records later in 1972.^[1][2]