Launched at a moment when Black American jazz musicians were increasingly carving out independent spaces of their own, Black Jazz wasted little time assembling a catalogue to rival the established names, and Walter Bishop Jr's Coral Keys soon became inseparable from the label's formative years. Surrounded by Woody Shaw, Harold Vick, Idris Muhammad and Reggie Johnson, Bishop brings together the language of bop with a warmly burnished soul-jazz sensibility, which can be heard throughout the breezy title track, the irresistible 'Soul Turn Around' and the more exploratory 'Freedom Suite'. Happily, this long-overdue reissue returns one of the label's most sought-after releases to circulation.
Launched at a moment when Black American jazz musicians were increasingly carving out independent spaces of their own, Black Jazz wasted little time assembling a catalogue to rival the established names, and Walter Bishop Jr's Coral Keys soon became inseparable from the label's formative years. Surrounded by Woody Shaw, Harold Vick, Idris Muhammad and Reggie Johnson, Bishop brings together the language of bop with a warmly burnished soul-jazz sensibility, which can be heard throughout the breezy title track, the irresistible 'Soul Turn Around' and the more exploratory 'Freedom Suite'. Happily, this long-overdue reissue returns one of the label's most sought-after releases to circulation.
Tracklisting
A1. Coral Keys
A2. Waltz For Zweette
A3. Track Down
A4. Soul Turn Around
B1. Our November
B2. Three Loves
B3. Freedom Suite
Label: Black Jazz Records / Real Gone Music
Format: LP - Limited Blue / Black Swirl Vinyl
Cat. #: RGM-1078
