Da impressionante série de reedições Music Matters 45rpm, um dos melhores títulos da Blue Note e sessão memorável de Horace Parlan gravada por Rudy Van Gelder. Masterização audiófila por Kevin Gray e Steve Hoffman a partir das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais na AcousTech em 2LP vinil 180 gramas prensado na RTI e apresentado em luxuosa capa gatefold com fotos de alta resolução da sessão.

• Edição Limitada
• Edição Numerada
• Apenas 1000 unidades numeradas disponíveis mundialmente
• Remasterizado das Master Tapes Originais de Rudy Van Gelder da Blue Note
• Remasterizado por Kevin Gray & Steve Hoffman na AcousTech
• Duplo LP com corte a 45rpm para dinâmica superior
• Vinil Virgem 180 gramas prensado na RTI USA
• Capas Gatefold pesadas e de alta durabilidade
• Capa gatefold Deluxe com fotos da sessão em alta resolução

Horace Parlan always had an original style on piano. Since polio partly paralyzed his right hand, he developed a chordal left hand style that was full of soul, swing and his melodic approach. He was a major part of the groups of Charles Mingus, Lou Donaldson and Eddie Lockjaw Davis-Johnny Griffin before leading his own trios.

He recorded seven Blue Note albums as a leader but was not heard as a leader on records again after 1963's Happy Frame Of Mind for a full decade. This gem of an album, which went unissued until 1976, is one of Parlan's greatest recordings, a particularly inventive date that teams him in a sextet with Booker Ervin, Johnny Coles and Grant Green. While the music is soulful and swinging, it is also quite adventurous with many surprising moments.

Parlan stretches himself and his sidemen, playing heated solos on the colorful material that rank with some of the finest playing of his career. Horace Parlan collectors should consider Happy Frame Of Mind to be essential.

Like all Music Matters Jazz releases, this audiophile vinyl reissue is mastered from the original analog tape and pressed on 180g virgin vinyl at RTI in Camarillo, CA. The highest quality gatefold cover features original session photography on the inside.

Músicos:

Johnny Coles, trompete
Booker Ervin, tenor sax
Grant Green, guitarra
Horace Parlan, piano
Butch Warren, baixo
Billy Higgins, bateria

Lista de Faixas:

1. Home Is Africa
2. A Tune For Richard
3. Back From The Gig
4. Dexi
5. Kucheza Blues
6. Happy Frame Of Mind

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