Jones, Elvin - Puttin' It Together (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition) (180 Gram Vinyl) J.S.

Jones, Elvin - Puttin' It Together (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition) (180 Gram Vinyl) J.S.Elvin Jones' 1968 Blue Note debut Puttin' It Together marked the start of a new chapter in the master drummer's career following his 6 years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet & Coltrane's death in 1967. The spare trio album found Jones engaged in a lively three way dialogue with bassist Jimmy Garrison and multi instrumentalist Joe Farrell. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master

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and was the only studio album released during his lifetime

followed by rockabilly in the late 1950s

Since the age of fourteen

supernatural

'80s R&B hits

Maybe he learned the power of minimalism from his years as a pro boxer

like Henry "Red" Allen

writing of the squalor and chaos of Los Angeles

we sent the entire George Mitchell Collection to Lenny Kaye and told him to pick his favorites resulting in this new volume

with one killer hook after another

He mixes tones from '60s and '70s Soul with arrangement nods to Doo-Wop records