View basket “Empyrean Isles: Blue Note Classic Vinyl” 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 Louis Armstrong Satchmo Plays King Oliver Jazz | Analogue Productions | 1LP, 200g Released 8th February 2019 £45.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Louis Armstrong Satchmo Plays King Oliver £45.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPJ5930 Formats: 1LP, 200g Released Date: 8th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Shelly Manne and Jack Marshall Sounds Unheard Of! 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