View basket “Paris ’76 (The Lost Live Series)” has been added to your basket. 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 Herbie Hancock Sunlight Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 24th November 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Herbie Hancock Sunlight £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1970 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 24th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yusef Lateef Psychicemotus Jazz | Impulse | 180g, 1LP Released 12th February 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yusef Lateef Psychicemotus £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impulse SKU: 5362765 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 12th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sarah Vaughan Live At Laren Jazz Festival 1975 Jazz | Fondamenta | CD Released 1st June 2021 £TBC Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sarah Vaughan Live At Laren Jazz Festival 1975 £TBC Genre: Jazz Label: Fondamenta SKU: FON1604022 Formats: CD Released Date: 1st June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Art Pepper Intensity Jazz | Contemporary Records (Acoustic Sounds Series) | 180g, 1LP Released 11th October 2024 £35.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Art Pepper Intensity £35.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Contemporary Records (Acoustic Sounds Series) SKU: 7259016 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th October 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Andrew Hill Smoke Stack Jazz | Blue Note | 180g, 1LP Released 19th June 2020 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Andrew Hill Smoke Stack £17.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: 852544 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 19th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cecile Mclorin Salvant WomanChild Jazz | Mack Avenue | 180g, 2LP Released 26th August 2014 £TBC Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cecile Mclorin Salvant WomanChild £TBC Genre: Jazz Label: Mack Avenue SKU: MAC1072LP Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 26th August 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hugh Masekela Hope Jazz | Analogue Productions | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 26th January 2018 £65.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hugh Masekela Hope £65.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPJ117 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 26th January 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Talking Therapy Ensemble & Emma-Jean Thackray Talking Therapy Jazz | Movementt | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 8th July 2022 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Talking Therapy Ensemble & Emma-Jean Thackray Talking Therapy £15.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Movementt SKU: MVMTT05LP Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 8th July 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Robert Glasper Fuck Yo Feelings Jazz | Concord / Loma Vista | 2LP Released 7th February 2020 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robert Glasper Fuck Yo Feelings £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Concord / Loma Vista SKU: LVR859 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 7th February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Reflections In Blue Jazz | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 30th September 2022 £27.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Reflections In Blue £27.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP3113 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 30th September 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Jazz Start again
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