Miracles do happen apparently. Like I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I had a package lost containing four records. It was posted in the beginning of October of last year, and traveled through the USPS network until it stopped and didn’t move. And it’s here that I want to give a big shoutout to my guy Spencer who started to look into what had happened by making numerous calls to USPS, spending hours trying to get clarity, putting in a missing mail request and so on. He kept me informed all the way and did his very best to figure out what the problem was. He had done everything right, all the info on the package was correctly filled in. So, the package was lost, and then out of nowhere five months after it was posted it started to move, and it finally arrived in Stockholm today and I could collect it. Sitting here listening to one of the albums and I can’t believe it really. Couldn’t thank you enough Spencer for all that you did. Thank you so much!
And so to the album on display. It’s a title I’ve been after for a long time so I’m extremely happy to finally have it spinning on the turntable. It’s a live recording from the Left Bank Jazz Society, Baltimore, Maryland in 1970. The music has funky elements as well as post-bop and spiritual leanings. Top playing by a stellar group which consists of Brooks on drums, Woody Shaw on trumpet, George Coleman on tenor sax and Cecil McBee on double bass.
The recording is fantastic and offers a very natural soundstage adherent to the club it was recorded in. This original copy is in outstanding condition and plays like new. Couldn’t be happier. Like I said, it’s a miracle to be able to sit here and finally listen to this album.