David Jr Lee Evolution (MAGENTA VINYL)

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, 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!), Evolution is an extraordinary one-off solo album, pressed on the artists 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 market-led 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, 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 super-limited edition magenta colour vinyl, newly digitally remastered, complete with new reproduction artwork, sleevenotes and download code.

A1. Revelation A2. Spirit Voice A3. Cosmic Vision A4. Wymbo-Ngoma A5. Regeneration A6. Freedom Bells A7. Acknowledgement A8. Love Parable B1. Nova Reflex B2. Evolution (Initiation, Development, Enlightenment Determination, Illumination, Inheritance, Destiny) B3. Cosmopolitan B4. Second Line March B5. Constant Search B6. I Want Our Love To Always Last B7. Mystic Sound

• Format Detail: LP, Magenta Vinyl, [w/ download card]
• Released: 5/10/24
• Format: Vinyl
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
• Internal ID: JITRE
• Genre: Jazz