Evolution David Lee Jr. SKU: SJRLP551C Barcode: 5026328005515 25.00 £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Soul Jazz Released Date: 15th March 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Drummer and composer David Lee Jr.’s stunning and rare album, ‘Evolution’ (1974), blends the deep experimentalism of John Coltrane and Sun Ra with the pulsating second-line and parade rhythms of New Orleans to create a stunning sonic and rhythmical tour de force. In a lineage of incredible New Orleans drummers, that includes James Black, Idris Muhammed and Zigaboo Modeliste of The Meters, and stretching back to Earl Palmer and Baby Dodds, David Lee Jr. stands out for his fire, experimentalism and an out-there-ness like no other. ‘Evolution’ is a super deep lost classic radical and groundbreaking deep spiritual jazz album. Originally released in New York in 1974 (400 copies only ever pressed!), the LP is an extraordinary one-off solo album, pressed on the artist’s own Supernal Records, a record company whose slogan, “Seeking creative progress,” and dedication “to peace and freedom” clearly displayed artistic intent over any commercial or marketled forces. David Lee Jr was born in New Orleans, and the deep experimental drum compositions featured on ‘Evolution’ are as rooted in this Southern city rhythmically as they are in the spiritual and metaphysical musical ideas of Afro-Futurist pioneers like Coltrane, Sun Ra and others. In the early 1970s, Lee Jr. headed off to New York, playing in Roy Ayers’ Ubiquity and later immersing himself in the thriving loft deep jazz scene, playing with Leon Thomas, Lonnie Liston Smith, Harold Alexander and Charles Rouse, and recording for a host of seminal deep jazz labels, including Strata-East, India Navigation and Flying Dutchman. Today, ‘Evolution’ remains one of the rarest and heaviest of all deep and spiritual jazz albums ever made. One-off special edition Magenta colour vinyl, newly digitally remastered and complete with new reproduction artwork, sleevenotes and download code. Artist David Lee Jr. Genre Jazz Label Soul Jazz Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings Revelation Spirit Voice Cosmic Vision Wymbo-Ngoma Regeneration Freedom Bells Acknowledgement Love Parable Nova Reflex Evolution (Initiation, Development, Enlightenment Determination, Illumination, Inheritance, Destiny) Cosmopolitan Second Line March Constant Search I Want Our Love To Always Last Mystic Sound Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jazz View Product Quick View Heath Brothers, The Paris ’76 (The Lost Live Series) Jazz | Sam Records | 180g, 1LP Released 15th December 2023 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Heath Brothers, The Paris ’76 (The Lost Live Series) £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Sam Records SKU: SRLP29 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 15th December 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Albert Ayler & Don Cherry New York Eye and Ear Control Jazz | ESP Disk | 1LP Released 4th November 2013 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Albert Ayler & Don Cherry New York Eye and Ear Control £21.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ESP Disk SKU: LPESP1016 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th November 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ben Webster The Soul Of Ben Webster Jazz | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 2nd March 2011 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ben Webster The Soul Of Ben Webster £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner SKU: V68359 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 2nd March 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Nils Landgren Sentimental Journey Jazz | ACT | 2LP Released 25th November 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nils Landgren Sentimental Journey £23.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT SKU: ACTLP9409-1 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 25th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ray Barretto Barretto Power Jazz | Concord | 1LP Released 20th November 2020 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ray Barretto Barretto Power £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Concord SKU: 7217634 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Keith Jarrett The Survivor’s Suite Jazz | ECM | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 7th April 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Keith Jarrett The Survivor’s Suite £21.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 4780924 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bobby Hutcherson Total Eclipse (Tone Poet) Jazz | Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Blue Note | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 3rd May 2024 £36.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Bobby Hutcherson Total Eclipse (Tone Poet) £36.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca (UMO) / Jazz / Blue Note SKU: 4595321 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 3rd May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Prestige All Stars, The All Night Long (Mono) Jazz | Analogue Productions (Prestige) | 180g, 1LP Released 9th January 2018 £45.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Prestige All Stars, The All Night Long (Mono) £45.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions (Prestige) SKU: APRJ7073 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 9th January 2018 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds Jazz | Concord Craft Recordings (OJC Series) | 180g, 1LP Released 2nd February 2024 £43.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yusef Lateef Eastern Sounds £43.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Concord Craft Recordings (OJC Series) SKU: 7250487 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 2nd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Youn Sun Nah Voyage Jazz | ACT | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 4th April 2016 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Youn Sun Nah Voyage £23.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ACT SKU: ACT90191 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 4th April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Jazz Start again
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