Vietnam (Revolutionary Ensemble album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
All About Jazz	[5]

The AllMusic review by Eugene Chadbourne stated "There is an intense emotional involvement with the playing that comes across through every sound made, but this was always the case with this group. Obviously, anyone with any intelligence had strong feelings about the war in Vietnam during the early '70s, and it could be said with accuracy that any performance of this group would have been about Vietnam just as much as this one was, as well as being about any number of other things. The great thing about the Revolutionary Ensemble was the range of grooves and sound areas the trio would get into, much of which is represented as this piece unfolds. The cooking sound of drums, bass, and the violin of Leroy Jenkins soaring above was sometimes what certain parts of the audience were always waiting for, but, like many of the AACM groups, this trio also loved to explore the worlds of silence and space".[4] On All About Jazz, Raoul D'Gama Rose noted "It is hard to imagine why it was not first greeted with more fanfare upon its original release, but perhaps the world of art was much crueler towards modern musicians. The music on Vietnam rises like a primordial wail and growl from the guts of Jenkins' violin and Sirone's bass. ... Vietnam is a staggering composition; an epic lament of two peoples and the world at war. If it was not recognized as a major contribution in 1971, that fact ought to be reconsidered today".[5]

All compositions by the Revolutionary Ensemble.

1. "Vietnam 1" – 23:00
2. "Vietnam 2" – 24:10

• Leroy Jenkins – violin, viola
• Sirone − bass, cello
• Jerome Cooper – percussion