Lift Every Voice

VINYL FORMAT. Part of the Blue Note reissue series from the Heavenly Sweetness label, this is Andrew Hill's Lift Every Voice, originally released on Blue Note in 1969. The album features Woody Shaw (trumpet), Carlos Garnett (tenor sax), Andrew Hill (piano), Richard Davis (bass), Freddie Waits (drums) and singers Lawrence Marshall, LaReine LaMar, Gail E. Nelson, Joan Johnson, Benjamin Franklin Carter, Antenett Goodman Ray and Ron Steward. A rare and beautiful Andrew Hill session and one of the classic Blue Note entries into the "jazz and voices" sound that the label pioneered with Donald Byrd and Eddie Gale. Pressed on super heavy 180 gram vinyl in a high quality "jazz" sleeve.