College Tour (Reissue)

VINYL FORMAT. First official US reissue of an album that has been out of print for over forty years! In Spring 1966, the New York State Council on the Arts gave ESP-Disk' a grant to tour the five colleges in the state with music departments. Artists for the tour included the Sun Ra Arkestra, Burton Greene, Patty Waters, Giuseppi Logan, and Ran Blake. Accompanied by an all-star backing group from among the participants, Waters' performances resulted in the album College Tour, her second for ESP. Internationally recognized as one of the first major avant-garde vocalists, her ESP recordings cemented her reputation as a vocal innovator whose influence has extended beyond jazz to Yoko Ono and Diamanda Galas.