David Lee Jr - Evolution

•    Soul Jazz Records / Universal Sound are releasing this radical, deep experimental lost classic jazz album from David Lee Jr, which joins the dots between the spiritual jazz of John Coltrane and Sun Ra and Lee’s own New Orleans rhythmical roots.

•    Dave Lee Jr was born in New Orleans and the deep hypnotic and experimental jazz music featured on ‘Evolution’ is as rooted in New Orleans rhythmically as it is in the spiritual and metaphysical musical ideas of John Coltrane, Sun Ra and other futurist soul- searchers.

•    Originally released in New York in 1974, the album ‘Evolution’ was self-funded and released as a private- pressing. As holy grail record rarities in the world go, this album ranks highly, with only around 400 copies ever pressed.

•    Growing up in New Orleans, during the 1960s Lee became a part of the city’s thriving rhythm and blues scene playing sessions with everyone from Eddie Bo to Willie Tee, before moving to New York in the 1970s as part of Roy Ayer’s group and also working with Lonnie Liston Smith, Harold Alexander, Leon Thomas and many other talented artists as a session drummer, recording for radical independent labels such as Flying Dutchman, Strata-East and India Navigation.

•    CD and vinyl is complete with full sleevenotes and text. Presented in Soul Jazz special box edition and slipcase CD and super-loud special edition heavyweight gatefold double vinyl.

Tracklisting:

Revelation
Spirit Voice
Cosmic Vision
Wymbo-Ngoma
Regeneration
Freedom Bells
Acknowledgement
Love Parable
Nola Reflex
Evolution
Cosmopolitan
Second-Line March
Constant Search
I Want Our Love To Always Last
Mystic Sound

Be the first to review this record. Best reviewer each month gets £10 off their next order!