Billy Harper
The Awakening (LP)
LabelMargeGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX (tag on front)
A Texan tenor player who came through Gil Evans, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Max Roach and Lee Morgan's last band, and who has spent fifty years playing a music of enormous physical and spiritual conviction that the American industry never knew what to do with. Billy Harper's records were mostly made in Europe and Japan for that reason. The Awakening comes from the French Marge label, and it has everything that makes him a cult figure: modal structures that build for ten minutes without repeating, a gospel-derived sense of climax, and a tenor tone that is huge, hard and entirely his own.
Original French Marge pressing. Deep, serious, criminally under-documented, and long a staple of the spiritual jazz underground.
Release notes
Toutes les compositions sont publiées par : Lyharp Music Publishing Co. (ASCAP) Enregistré au Studio Ramses à Paris le : Lundi 29 Janvier 1979. Maquette : «Cadrat» Gérard Pétrillo. Distribution : Soprodis - 2 ter, rue de Chantilly, 75009 Paris. Tél. : 526-61-51. [Montreuil Offset logo] Made In France The uncredited pressing company is derived from the logo of the group [l=AGI] / Audio Graphic Industries, we can find on the run-out grooves. Disco France was the pressing plant of this group.
| A1 | The Awakening | 8:00 | |
| A2 | Soran Bushi--B.H. | 12:00 | |
| B | Cry Of Hunger | 21:00 |
- Louis "Mbiki" Spears
- Bass
- Horace Arnold
- Drums
- "Cadrat" Gérard Pétrillo
- Layout
- Maïté Aletti
- Photography By [Back]
- Nobuyasu Urushiyama
- Photography By [Cover]
- Fred Hersch
- Piano
- Gérard Terronès
- Producer
- Jean-Louis Rizet
- Recorded By, Mixed By
- Billy Harper
- Tenor Saxophone, Composed By, Written-By
- Everett Hollins
- Trumpet
