Spiritual jazz. Albums,especialmente rarezas.Bastantes con cantantes ( No los geniales John Coltrane

Bueno, pues se trata de recoger algunos albums, hoy en dia son accesibles bastantes de ellos.
Algunos musicos son conocidos y otros solo participaron en escasas sesiones.

Body, Mind And Spirit (1976,Black Renaissance )

Album completo en youtube

https://youtu.be/-7AlxIPP_r8
https://youtu.be/jcpIxslfWNg


Uno de los mejores albums de la historia
Spiritual jazz, soul jazz
Los 2 son excepcionales


Black Renaissance ‎– Body, Mind And Spirit
Label:
Luv N' Haight ‎– LHLP037
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country:
US
Released:
2002
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Soul-Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Free Improvisation
Tracklist
A Black Renaissance 23:40
B Magic Ritual 15:33
Companies etc

Copyright (c) – Harry Whitaker
Licensed To – Ubiquity Recordings, Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Ubiquity Recordings, Inc.
Recorded At – Sound Ideas Studios

Credits

Bass – Buster Williams
Drums – Billy Hart (tracks: A), Howard King (tracks: B)
Engineer – Joe Ferla
Executive-Producer – Yoshio Ozawa
Percussion – Earl Bennett*, Billy Hart, Howard King, James Mtume
Piano – Harry Whitaker
Producer, Arranged By, Conductor – Harry Whitaker
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Azar Lawrence
Tenor Saxophone – David Schnitter
Trumpet – Woody Shaw
Vocals – Assata Doby, Edna Holt*, Lani Groves, Sandy Nakamura
Voice [Speaking] – Andaye DeLaCruz, Bobby Andrews, Dwight Carson, Fikisha Cumbo, Sekou Sundiata

Notes
Recorded January 15, 1976.
Originally released in Japan 1976.
Reissue comes with an obi strip and an insert.

This was also repressed on clear red vinyl in 2013 Body, Mind And Spirit


Harry Whitaker's Black Rennaisance - Body, Mind And Spirit - producer, tracklisting, cover art
Harry Whitaker is a piano player, producer and arranger who on MLK day 1976, at the age of 26, recorded Black Renaissance "Body, Mind, and Spirit," a holy grail amongst collectors of soul-jazz and rare groove. So rare, it was virtually a myth to many collectors and music aficionados. Made up of two long tracks that periodically build and release for forty minutes over two sides of an LP it's an improvised masterpiece combining Afrocentric spiritual soul, jazz, poetry, amazing solos, a tasty bass line or two and more than a fair share of funky beats. It's also one of the earliest albums to antiestéticature rapping. Harry Whitaker cut his teeth on the best of the Roy Ayers Ubiquity releases (including playing keys on "We Live In Brooklyn Baby" and co-producing the "Coffy" OST) and making a living working closely with Roberta Flack - as her musical director, even playing on her big Eugene McDaniels' written hit "I Feel Like Makin' Love." Black Renaissance "Body, Mind, and Spirit," was his first attempt at a project where he wrote and composed the music and played keys on all tracks. This album antiestéticatures Woody Shaw, Azar Lawrence, Buster Williams, Billy Hart and Mtume amongst others. CD liner notes (and album insert) explain how this album almost never saw the light of day.

Si, es exquisita

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Sounds Of Liberation ‎( 1972 , Sounds Of Liberation )

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Una imagen del grupo:


Sounds Of Liberation ‎– Sounds Of Liberation
Label:
Dogtown Records ‎– none
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country:
US
Released:
1972
Genre:
Electronic, Jazz
Style:
Leftfield, Musique Concrète, Free Jazz, Abstract, Future Jazz, Space-Age
Tracklist
A1 Happy Tuesday 19:20
A2 New Horizons II 5:24
A3 Billie One 2:49
B1 We'll Tell You Later 10:45
B2 New Horizons I 10:36
B3 New Life 2:41
Credits

Alto Saxophone – Byard Lancaster
Bass – Billy Mills
Congas – Rashid Salim*
Drums – Dwight James
Guitar – Monnette Sudler (tracks: B1, B2)
Percussion – Omar Hill
Vibraphone – Khan Jamal (tracks: A1, A2)


Sounds Of Liberation - Happy Tuesday - YouTube
Una de las reediciones de la decada, un album magistral de este super grupo, que sepa es el unico que hicieron juntos.
Spiritual jazz, free-jazz,funk...
Especialmente buena Monnette Sudler a la guitarra en los temas 3 y 5.Album polirritmico con 2 percusionistas y 1 bateria, con los excepcionales : Happy Tuesday ( 20 minutos ), Billie One, New Horizons I( 10 minutos ),y el magnifico tema New Life.


Algunas fotos del grupo:








Hilo sobre Byard Lancaster:
http://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliari...icos-de-artista-atlantic-y-luego-francia.html

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Detroit Jazz Composers Ltd. ( 1976, ‎Hastings Street Jazz Experience )

Album magistral de spiritual jazz.
Con coro de fondo.Album de spiritual jazz ,con muchos músicos.
Su único álbum,en uno de los temas Kim Weston ( estrella de Motown ) canta el tema, en otros 3 temas participa y lidera el coro .Tema con protagonismo del vibráfono: Arjuna .
Los tres últimos temas suenan mas a big band.

Excepcionales: A Little Love For You (Love Sounds ), Yes Lord ( tema con mucho Groove, un clasico del groove )
Muy buen tema : Nobody Had To Tell Me ( interpretada por Kim Weston , posiblemente el gran tema mas desconocido de su carrera ya que sale en este glorioso album no reeditado hasta hace un año mas o menos )

DETROIT JAZZ COMPOSERS LTD - YES LORD - YouTube




Label:
Midnite Records (2) ‎– MR 1976
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
US
Released:
1976
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Jazz-Funk, Modal
Tracklist Hide Credits
A1 Mark 1

Composed By – Will Davis (2)

3:10
A2 Ja-Mil

Composed By – Miller Brisker

3:34
A3 Song For "M"

Composed By – Sylvia Turner

4:35
A4 A Little Love For You (Love Sounds)

Composed By – Ed Nelson (3)

4:44
B1 Yes Lord

Composed By – Teddy Harris, Jr.*

6:01
B2 Arjuna

Composed By – Nasir Hafiz

2:57
B3 Nobody Had To Tell Me

Composed By – Alma Foster

4:10
B4 Now You're Gone

Composed By – Donald Towns

3:39
Credits

Alto Saxophone – Louis Barnett, Samuel Spraggins, Theodore Buckner*
Baritone Saxophone – Earnest Rodgers
Bass – Duke Billingslea
Congas – Mitchell Atkins, Sherrell Rowland, Sundiata O. Mausi*
Design [Cover Design] – Desmond Jones (2)
Drums – Ed Nelson (3)
Electric Piano – Leonard McDonald, Will Davis (2)
Engineer [Recording], Mastered By [Remix-mastering] – Robert Dennis*
Flugelhorn – Herbie Williams
Flute – Earnest Rodgers, Ronald Fain, Samuel Spraggins
Guitar – Earl Thomas (3), Vaughn Klugh
Harp – Sylvia Turner
Liner Notes – Herb Boyd
Percussion – Ed Nelson (3), Edgar Spand, Jerome Combs, Margo Harris, Olaju Kali, Theodore Harris Jr.
Piano – Miller Brisker, Sylvia Turner, Theodore Harris Jr.
Piccolo Flute – Theodore Harris Jr.
Producer – Ed Nelson (3), Miller Brisker
Soprano Saxophone – Theodore Harris Jr.
Tenor Saxophone – Charles Brown*, Charles Gabriel*, Louis Barnett, Miller Brisker, Walter Strickland
Trombone – Ed Gooch*, Jimmy Wilkins, Phil Ranelin
Trumpet – Charles Hooks, Eddie Jones (2), Herbie Williams, John Wilson (7)
Vibraphone [Vibes] – Nasir Hafiz
Vocals [Vocalist] – Kim Weston
Vocals [Voices] – Ava Rose, Blaine Nichols, Ed Nelson (3), Guyanne Collins, Jerome Combs, Mikyo Adaku, Miller Brisker, Olaju Kali, Robert McCarther, Sandra McCarther, Sonya Gray, Sundiata O. Mausi*

Notes
Recorded January 2 / April 1, 1976 at Super Disc Sound Studio, Detroit, Michigan.

"Endorsed by the Detroit Bicentennial Commission Inc."

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The One ( 1987, Azanyah )

Azanyah - Praise - YouTube

Una de las cumbres de la música popular, posiblemente el mejor álbum de los últimos 25 años, se trata de una isla entre la musiquilla de los años 80 y algunas escasas grandes cosas,y muy pocas obras maestras ( por lo menos para mi de lo poco que conozco del jazz de los 80 hasta la actualidad ) en este caso se trata de indiscutiblemente de una obra absolutamente genial, al nivel de las maravillosas obras de spiritual jazz de los 70 y 60 ( entre lo que conozco, John Coltrane, Shatima Bea Benjamin con Dollar Brand ( Abdullah Ibrahim ),etc…).

Mamaniji Azanyah - Bass (tracks 1-6)
Immanuel Zechariah - Tenor and Soprano Saxophones/Flute (tracks 1-6)
Vance Taylor - Piano (tracks 1,3,5,6)
Eric Johnson - Drums (tracks 1,5,6)
Shaka - Guitar (tracks 1,2,4,5,6)
Kofi McDonald - Percussion (tracks 1-6)
Theresa Morton - Vocals (track 1,2,3,5,6)
Otis Gould - Drums (track 2)
Los temas 3 y 4 son instrumentales.
Gran tema : The One
Excepcionales: Let God Come First, Praise, Guiding Light, I Will Surely Come Again


Azanyah ‎– The One
Label:
Path Of Light Records ‎– POL 10002
Format:
Vinyl, LP
Country:
US
Released:
1987
Genre:
Jazz
Style:

Tracklist Hide Credits
A1 The One 11:40
A2 Let God Come First 8:00
A3 In The Beauty Of Holiness 6:18
B1 Praise 8:44
B2 Guiding Light 8:24
B3 I Will Surely Come Again 10:40

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[/tonalidad]Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble ‎– Hard Luck Soul ( 1971)

Magnifico album.
ॠ- YouTube COMPLETO EN YOUTUBE

Album de spiritual jazz.Bajo y bateria casi van a piñon, aun asi el conjunto esta muy bien, lo mejor son los vientos.
2 grandes temas: Mantra Dance, Counterry Bosa Davan.
Grupo carcelario liderado por el sobrino de Sonny Rollins, al salir de prisión solo continuo en la música Reynard Birtha, Logan Rollins falleció poco después al salir de la guandoca.

Label:
Jazzman ‎– JMANLP 052
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Limited Edition
Country:
US
Released:
2012
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop
Tracklist
A1 Psych City 10:53
A2 Mantra Dance 4:57
B1 Counterry Bosa Davan 11:44
B2 Java Man 5:24
Credits
• Artwork By [Design & Illustration] – Luke Lauch
• Bass – Charles Peterson (2)
• Composed By, Arranged By – Logan Rollins
• Congas [Congo Drums] – Ricky Lewis (4)
• Drums – Dave Bennett (4)
• Engineer [Audio Restoration] – Colin Young (5)
• Guitar – Richard Stokes (2)
• Guitar [Lead] – George Williams (5)
• Narrator – Peter H. Gunn
• Organ – John Grady (2)
• Other [Advisor] – Robert Vandagriff
• Performer [Charicas] – Julius T. Johnson
• Piano – Richard Wise (2)
• Saxophone [Alto] – Logan Rollins
• Saxophone [Tenor] – Jesse Barrett, Sonny Ward
• Trumpet – Reynard Birtha
Notes
Numbered, limited edition of 1000 copies.

Jazzman Records reissues this extremely rare private-press record from 1971, recorded by the Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble, made up entirely of prisoners in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

antiestéticaturing band leaders Reynard Birtha and Logan Rollins, nephew ( sobrino ) of jazz legend Sonny Rollins.

This is the band's only recording, and the group disbanded after the release of Logan and Rollins.

Subtitled "Moods & Ideations In Contemporary Jazz".

Salvo error de discogs.com George Williams (5) fue productor del album: Pucho And The Latin Soul Brothers* ‎– Super Freak

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Obra maestra, del mitico sello de jazz y spiritual jazz cada dia mas reconocido.

Earth Blossom ( 1974 ,The ‎John Betsch Society )
Excepcional, increibles percusiones y flauta: Ode To Ethiopia
Magnifico: Darling Doria

John Betsch Society - Darling Doria - YouTube
Label:
Heavenly Sweetness ‎– HS005CD
Format:
CD, Album, Reissue
Country:
France
Released:
2007
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Soul-Jazz
Tracklist
1 Ode To Ethiopia 4:20
2 Earth Blossom 3:20
3 Open Pastures 4:35
4 Song For An Untitled Lady 3:50
5 Ra 5:58
6 Darling Doria 6:32
7 Get Up And Go 5:08
Credits
• Artwork By [Cover Illustration] – Ariene Turner
• Bass – Ed "Lump" Williams
• Congas, Percussion – Phil Royster
• Drums, Percussion – John Betsch
• Flute, Saxophone – Billy Puett
• Guitar – Jim Bridges
• Liner Notes – Antoine Rajon
• Photography – Geoge Walker III
• Piano, Electric Piano, Percussion – Bob Holmes*
• Producer – John Betsch
• Recorded By, Engineer [Remix] – Kyle Lehning
Notes
Comes in tri-fold digipak

Original LP released 1974 on Strata-East Records, N.Y.
Recorded January 11, 1974 at Glaser Productions, Inc. Nashville Tenn.
Under Licence from John Betsch.

(P) & (C) 2007 Heavenly Sweetness



One of the rarer records of the mythical Strata East albums is finally reissued for the first time on Heavenly Sweetness ! The recording of Earth Blossom, the John Betsch Societys one and only album, seems something of an enigma nowadays. For even though Nashville is clearly one of the towns in the US with the highest number of recording studios, who would have thought that the capital of country music would give birth to one of the forgotten masterpieces of 1970s spiritual jazz. The path leading to the album starts in 1963 when John Betsch, originally from Jacksonville in Florida, arrives in Nashville to study at Frisk University. He is a young drummer and joins Bob Holmes trio. Holmes is one of the towns major jazz organists and pianists; he becomes Betschs mentor and, over the space of two years, John will play alternately with him and with the trumpeter Louis Smiths group. However, in 1965, John leaves town to go to the prestigious Berkeley University in Boston and do a two-year course along with his fellow debutants with names like John Abercrombie, Ernie Watts and Alan Broadbent. Two years later, he is invited by a pianist friend, Billy Chilf, to join the legendary singer/songwriter Tim Hardins group. Just after Woodstock, John Betsch and Tim record a psychedelic album Columbia will never release together with the members of the future group Oregon: Colin Walcott, Glen Moore, Paul McCandles and his friend Billy Chilf. But he soon leaves this group to return to Nashville where he hooks up again with his friend Bob Holmes. Two years later, he is accepted on Archie Shepp and Max Roachs famous course at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMASS) and for the next four years he participates in this collective of intellectuals and musicians under the aegis of the two masters. During this period he returns to Nashville to form his Society whose music is obviously influenced by the Afrocentric ideas of the UMASS student and political movement. However, the album, recorded in one day and in one take, also bears the hallmark of their generations psychedelic experiences, and in the themes and playing of the musicians we can hear a less violent form of music than the radical free jazz of New York or Chicago. Nature and environmental themes are the inspiration behind tracks touched by the spirit of Coltrane but also of Flower Power. After Amherst, John Betsch joins Marion Browns group in 1976, leaves Tennessee for good and makes his home in New York over the next ten years or so. He plays and records with Dollar Brand, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre and many others, before heading off to France. He has lived in Paris for the last twenty years and played in Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron and Archie Shepp bands, as well as forming groups of his own. He now lives in Paris and plays with many musicians/bands. -Amazon