Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones, Ron Carter, Jerome Richardson, Grady Tate, Jonathan Klein's lyrics & chords

Led by Herbie Hancock, this 'Prayer ceremony in jazz' was recorded and released privately in New York during 1968, featuring performances by Jerome Richardson, Jonathan Klein, Thad Jones, Ron Carter and Grady Tate, with readings by Rabbi David Davis and sung texts from soprano Antonia Lavanne and Contralto Phyllis Bryn-Julson. This album provides a very different slant on what we'd normally associate with the spiritual jazz genre: far from being an almost psychedlic, transcendental listening experience, this album fuses the modernity of urban j...read more