Name: Evolution
Brand: David Lee Jr

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SJRLP551C

Colour

Magenta

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Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-03-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5026328005515

Total Cap

Magenta LP

Artist

David Lee Jr

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Soul Jazz

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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.&nbsp;

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 artist’s 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.&nbsp;

Newly digitally remastered, complete with new reproduction artwork, sleevenotes and download code.

Evolution

Music GB

Discover Evolution by David Lee Jr. A rare and groundbreaking deep spiritual jazz album on Soul Jazz label. Newly remastered with download code.