Spirits Known And Unknown Leon Thomas

£8.11

Genre:
Vocal Jazz
Label:
Flying Dutchman
Format:
CD
Catalogue Id:
CDBGPM 262

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The BGP release schedule over the last few months has been dominated some compilations focusing on Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman label. Our Gil Scott-Heron box-set has gained rave reviews and our Leon Thomas and Lonnie Liston Smith collections have been welcomed by fans and DJs alike. However, Flying Dutchman was most definitely a jazz-based label, renowned for releasing some of the finest jazz albums of the early 1970s. To celebrate this, we are launching our “Flying Dutchman Jazz Classics” series.

Leon Thomas’ slightly Latinised version of Horace Silver’s classic ‘Song For My Father’ is probably the least challenging track on an album that serves as a showcase for the singer’s many talents. In doing so it became one of the most important jazz vocal albums of its time, pointing a way forward for jazz when it seemed as if supper clubs and nostalgia was the most likely way to go. Here we are given the political edge of ‘Damn Nam (Ain’t Going To Vietnam)’, the free jazz experimentation of ‘Malcolm’s Gone’ with Pharoah Sanders on tenor saxophone, and the spiritual searching of ‘Echoes’. The album is bookended by a concise take on Thomas’ signature tune ‘The Creator Has A Master Plan’ and the beautiful ‘Let The Rain Fall On Me’. Our release also features the session out-take ‘A Night In Tunisia’ and two live tracks taken from the LP “SNCCs Rap” which have never before been reissued.

 

By Dean Rudland

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