Label: Strata-East – SES 1972-2
Series: JaCo Series – JACO-1001
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: US / Released: 1972
Style: Free Jazz, Free Inprovisation
Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, N.Y.C. February 13, 1972.
Artwork By [Cover Design] – Warren Shipp
Engineer [Recording] – John Sadler
Mixed By – Les Paul, Jr.
A- Reasons In Tonality ..................................................................... 23:20
Composed By – Julius Watkins
B- 3-M.B. .......................................................................................... 22:10
Composed By – Keno Duke
JULIUS WATKINS – Franch horn
CLIFFORD JORDAN – senor sax
GEORGE COLEMAN – tenor sax
HAROLD MABERN – piano
LARRY RIDLEY – bass
KENO DUKE – drums, percussion
Harold Mabern
Rare Spiritual Jazz LP "Jazz Contemporaries – Reasons in Tonality" STRATA EAST - JaCo Series – JACO-1001
Superb set Recorded live at the Village Vanguard, N.Y.C. February 13, 1972. One of the Great Leftfield Jazz LP of Strata East. The pure beauty of the Spiritual Jazz. Very near of the philosophy of the label with GEORGE COLEMAN (tenor sax), JULIUS WATKINS (french horn), CLIFFORD JORDAN (tenor sax), HAROLD MABERN (piano), LARRY RIDLEY (bass), KENO DUKE (drums)
Rare original spiritual jazz LP on the much sought after STRATA EAST label. Sounds very much like it could be a lost session for some classic Coltrane album: the easy gait of the brass, the levitation pull of the bright block chords staggering over on the right end of the piano, the band playing perfectly in unison. amazing how something can sound at once so casual and so spirited!
If you find it, buy this album!