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The Descendants Of Mike & Phoebe - A Spirit Speaks - 180g LP
Product no.: SES19744
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AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head
Pure Pleasure / Strata East - SES 19744 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl
AAA 100% Analogue - Mastered by Ray Staff at Air London
Limited Edition - Pressed at Pallas Germany
Pure Analogue This LP is an Entirely Analogue Production
A Spiritual Deep Jazz masterpiece on Strata East '73 and regarded as the most unique of albums. An absolutely essential and hugely sought after title commanding large sums of money. This recording comes from original tapes, expertly mastered by Ray Staff and pressed on the best Pallas 180 gm Vinyl.Do not miss this title!!!
Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
One of the most unique albums on the Strata East label – and that's saying a heck of a lot, given the creative energies flowing through that legendary jazz outlet! Descendents Of Mike & Phoebe is a righteous little project put together by Spike Lee's father, Bill Lee, and his brothers and sisters (Cliff Lee, Grace Lee Mims, and Consuela Lee Moorhead) – working here in a group named after their slave ancestors, who are paid tribute in a beautifully flowing batch of tunes! Lee's round, warm bass tones are firmly at the head of the group on most numbers – recorded at a similar level to his excellent work with Clifford Jordan on Strata East during the same time – and other instrumentation includes piano from Consuela, flugelhorn from Cliff, and percussion from Sonny Brown and Billy Higgins – all used in a wonderfully evocative style that's even better than some of Lee's later soundtrack work. A few numbers feature vocals from Grace – singing wordlessly and with a really heavenly sort of quality – and together, the whole group have an undeniable sense of power and majesty, yet also one that's touched by a really personal sense of poetry too. Titles include a great version of Lee's "Coltrane", which was more famously recorded with Clifford Jordan.
The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe" was chosen to honor the maternal slave ancestors of the Lee family who are six generations removed from the players (four family members play on the album). Featured on five of the ten tracks is the soprano voice of Grace Lee Mims, which is truly lovely and adds an ethereal element to the underlying jazz. My favorite track on the album is "Coltrane," which features bassist Bill Lee, who really stretches out (you can find him on numerous significant jazz albums from the 60s). This song is probably most familiar to people as played by Clifford Jordan. Cliff Lee on flugelhorn supplies the brass element and along with Consuela Lee Moorehead on piano show that this was indeed a distinguished musical family.
Musicians:
A. Grace Lee Mims, vocals
Bill Lee, bass
Clif Lee, flugelhorn
Billy Higgins, percussion
Sonny Brown, percussion
Consuela Lee Moorehead, piano
Selections:
Side A:
1a. Little Bitty Baby
1b. Soliloquy To A Man-Child
2. Coltrane
3. Chick Chick
4. Well Done, Weldon
5. A Spirit Speaks
Side B:
1. Attica
2. Take My hand, Precious Lord
3. Boll Weevil
4. Don't Be A Stranger
5. Too Little, Too Late
Recorded December 19, 20 & 21, 1973 at Minot Studios, White Plains, NY.
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180g Vinyl Mastered From The Best Available Sources
At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records. During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.
A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.
We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle. We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production. To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.
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Pure Pleasure Records bring you vinyl albums of quality Jazz - Blues - R+B - Soul - Funk, remastered by some of the best engineers in the world and pressed on 180 gram audiophile vinyl at what is probably the best pressing plant in Europe
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Plated and Pressed at Pallas in Germany on 180 Gram Virgin Vnyl
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