View basket “Abbey Is Blue” 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 Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) African Piano Jazz | ECM | 180g, 1LP Released 27th January 2014 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) African Piano £21.00 Genre: Jazz Label: ECM SKU: 3743555 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th January 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miles Davis & Michel Legrand Dingo: Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Jazz | Rhino | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th January 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Davis & Michel Legrand Dingo: Selections from the Motion Picture Soundtrack £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Rhino SKU: 0603497843923 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th January 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jacintha Best Of (180g 2LP) Jazz | Groove Note | 180g, 2LP Released 23rd April 2024 £73.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jacintha Best Of (180g 2LP) £73.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Groove Note SKU: GRV1042 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 23rd April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Michel Petrucciani Colors Jazz | Disques Dreyfus | 2LP Released 4th October 2019 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michel Petrucciani Colors £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Disques Dreyfus SKU: 4050538526837 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 4th October 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders 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 Ornette Coleman The Shape Of Jazz To Come Jazz | So Far Out | 180g, 1LP Released 10th June 2013 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ornette Coleman The Shape Of Jazz To Come £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: So Far Out SKU: OUT5007LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th June 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Blue Note Re:Imagined Jazz | Decca | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th April 2024 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Blue Note Re:Imagined £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Decca SKU: 5875640 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cecil Taylor Conquistador! 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