Gary Bartz NTU Troop Harlem Bush Music Uhuru LP 180 Gram Vinyl Kevin Gray Jazz Dispensary QRP 2017 USA
Title: Harlem Bush Music - Uhuru
Catalog Number: MIL00006
Label: Milestone Records
Reissued by: Concord Music Group
Barcode: 888072025363
Original release year: 1971
Reissue year: 2017
Number of discs: 1
Revolutions per minute: 33⅓ rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 180gr
Total Item Weight: 485gr
Pressing country: USA
For Market Release in: USA
Added to catalog on: March 8, 2018
Collection: Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series
Note: Never eligible for any further discounts
Vinyl Gourmet Club: No
The Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series is a reissue program focused on delivering quality music with the best possible listening experience. Highlighting complete original albums from the Jazz Dispensary vaults with a focus on rare or previously unavailable titles, each album is expertly mastered and pressed on 180 Gram audiophile vinyl and housed in a faithfully reproduced old-school tip-on cover.
- 180 Gram Vinyl pressed at QRP, USA
- First time on 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
- Lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
- Old-school style tip-on Gatefold cover
- Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series Astral Travelin'
- Jazz Dispensary "Authorized Dealer" window cling
Featuring 180-gram vinyl pressed at Quality Record Pressings from lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and housed in a one-pocket old style tip-on gatefold jacket, this is the definitive version of the Gary Bartz NTU Troop's Harlem Bush Music - Uhuru. This righteously grooving mixture of jazz, funk, soul, and searching rhythms proves an essential and politically relevant entry in the canon of timeless jazz recordings.
Harlem Bush Music – Uhuru remains extremely relevant. Though the album came at a time when Black Consciousness and Black Pride were coming to the forefront of American culture, current times are such that its message of struggle, love and hope transcends racial categories. That is both a great testament to the power of this music, as well as to the dawning fact in this country that we're all in this together," said All About Jazz. Joined by the inimitable Andy Bey on vocals, Juini Booth and Ron Carter on bass, Harold White on drums, and Nat Bettis on percussion, Bartz turns in a set of politically relevant, hard-grooving, funky, searching and essential soul-jazz. The centerpiece of the album is the righteously grooving, original seven-minute version of “Celestial Blues” featuring the incredible vocals of John Coltrane’s favorite vocalist, Andy Bey.
"The music of both volumes of Harlem Bush Music (Taifa and Uhuru) is humbly dedicated, respectively, to the memories of Malcolm X and John Coltrane." - Gary Bartz
Recorded at Decca Sound Studios, New York; November 1970 and January 1971
Musicians:
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Gary Bartz
Bass – Juni Booth
Bass, Electric Bass – Ron Carter
Drums – Harold White
Percussion – Nat Bettis
Piano, Vocals – Gary Bartz
Vocals – Andy Bey
Producer – Orrin Keepnews
Track Listing:
1. Blue (A Folk Tale)
2. Uhuru Sasa
3. Vietcong
4. Celestial Blues
5. The Planets
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