A Universal Music e a Third Man Records unidos numa parceria para ressuscitar a popular série de reedições Verve By Request, focada nas raridades e álbuns de jazz do leque de editoras do grupo Verve há muito pedidos pelos fãs. Os discos recebem novas remasterizações a partir das fontes analógicas originais quando disponíveis, e prensagens em vinil audiófilo 180g na Third Man Pressing em Detroit.

• Verve By Request Series
• Vinil Audiófilo 180 Gramas
• Corte por Ryan K. Smith na Sterling Sound
• Prensagem Third Man Pressing, USA
• Capa Gatefold

Verve Records/UMe and Third Man Records have partnered to resurrect the popular reissue series, Verve By Request, with a vinyl twist. Focusing on rare gems and fan-requested jazz albums from the Verve Label Group’s stable of iconic labels, the series will offer two titles per month – each hand-picked by Verve and Third Man Records. The records will include both long-out-of-print titles from the vault as well as the first-ever vinyl pressings for albums released in the ‘90s and aughts that were only originally released on CD. Albums will be newly remastered from original analog sources, when available, and pressed on audiophile-quality, 180-gram vinyl at Third Man Pressing in Detroit. 

These 1969 recordings (released in 1974) combine Archie Shepp's free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues/funk through an African lens, all in a big band setting. The all-star brass section, featuring James Spaulding and Charles Davis on sax along with trombonist Graham Moncur III, lead the way on stand-out cuts including "New Africa" and "Spoo Pee Doo."

Músicos:

Archie Shepp
Leon Thomas
Woody Shaw
Grachan Moncur III
Matthew Gee
James Spaulding
Cecil Payne
Dave Burrell
Andrew Bey
Cedar Walton
Wally Richardson
Bert Payne
Bob Bushnell
Albert Winston
Walter Booker
Wilbur Ware
Pretty Purdie
Beaver Harris
Joe Chambers

Lista de Faixas:

1. Back Back
2. Spoo Pee Doo
3. New Africa
4. Slow Drag
5. Bakai

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