Drummer, bandleader and activist Bubbha Thomas had toured America with R&B revues,served as a session musician for Peacock and Back Beat Records, and played straightahead jazz with legends before the political and social upheaval of the late 1960s led himto a path first charted by Coltrane.Fancy Pants is his second LP with his Lightmen band and, like the deep-set, maverickjazz issued by the likes of Tribe and Strata East, is amongst the best of the 1970s jazzunderground, a collective voice of resistance to the musical and cultural status quo.

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  • 1. Sorrow Bitterness and Revolution (Now He's Gone)
  • 2. Fancy Pants
  • 3. On the Road Home
  • 4. Blue Tip
  • 5. Hope
  • 6. Song of Praise
  • 7. Ujimma
  • 8. Ashie

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  • 1. Sorrow Bitterness and Revolution (Now He's Gone) (Mono)
  • 2. Fancy Pants (Mono)
  • 3. On the Road Home (Mono)
  • 4. Blue Tip (Mono)
  • 5. Hope (Mono)
  • 6. Song of Praise (Mono)
  • 7. Ujimma (Mono)
  • 8. Ashie (Mono)