I will confess up front that my primary motivation here is to find a nice lossless copy from one of you fine readers, failing that I may have to hunt one down myself because this is one damn fine album. For that matter, I believe there is a Mosaic set with all the Columbia recordings....anyone??
As you are carried away on this magic carpet ride, do please consider that this music was played 1967-68! WHEW!
"The third of altoist John Handy's three superb Columbia studio albums finds him fronting a quintet comprised of violinist Michael White, pianist Mike Nock, bassist Bruce Cale and drummer Larry Hancock. The talented group plays four originals by Handy, three by Nock and one from White. The music (much more concise in general than on the previous two Columbias) contains plenty of surprises and is difficult to categorize (somewhere between the avant-garde and hard bop), although it does not reach the same heights as New View." AMG
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ReplyDeleteKC, Home Of Jazz has or had Mosaic Select 35 up a few weeks back. flac, I think.
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ReplyDeleteSo excited to hear these!
ReplyDeleteFor various reasons, I'm very fond of John Handy. He also made a few very intriguing albums with the late demi-god of sarod, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Mr Handy used to think outside the box, I believe he's retired now. Thanks for this, King. And thanks to the Anon above for the Mosaic link, very useful indeed!
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