Ptah, The El Daoud was recorded in the Coltrane home studio in 1970 and released later that year on Impulse! Records. The hypnotic Ptah, The El Daoud was the fourth album to bear the pianist and harpist’s name released between 1968-70, a fertile period that also included her joint album partially recorded with John a year before his death, Cosmic Music. (Pre-order Roy Brooks’ Beat here.)įollowing the death of her husband John Coltrane in 1967, Alice Coltrane continued to forward the musical and spiritual version they set out on together by releasing records on her own as composer and bandleader. Beat is also the first official reissue of any Workshop Jazz album. Notably, “Soulsphere” was composed by Alice McLeod - erroneously credited as “McCloud” on the sleeve, as the label reps have correctly pointed out - who would blaze a new musical path a few years later as the incomparable Alice Coltrane.
Together, they all deliver a high-energy set featuring tracks written by Brooks, Joe Henderson, and Duke Pearson. Brooks, who served as a sideman for Horace Silver, Yusef Lateef, and Chet Baker (among others), is joined by fellow Detroit natives George Bohannon on trombone and Hugh Lawson on piano, along with his Horace Silver Quintet bandmates Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor saxophone, and Eugene Taylor on bass. Recorded at Motown’s legendary Hitsville USA studio for Workshop Jazz - Berry Gordy's short-lived jazz imprint - Beat marks Roy Brooks’ debut as a leader, and the album finds the innovative drummer fusing his hard-bop roots with a Motor City soul-jazz groove. You can see both the cover art and respective yellow vinyl variant option interspersed throughout this story.
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The new Verve By Request series launches on November 11 with two reissues that also serve as a nod to Third Man’s birthplace, featuring two of Detroit’s finest: Alice Coltrane’s Ptah, The El Daoud (1970), and Roy Brooks’ long out-of-print Beat (1964). Each Third Man edition comes in a limited-edition, two-color, screen-printed jacket on archival French cover stock, custom-printed and assembled in Detroit. Each month, a limited-edition Third Man Edition yellow color variant of each LP will also be available exclusively via Third Man Records and uDiscoverMusic.
I’ve been told albums in the revived Verve By Request series will be newly remastered from original analog sources whenever available, and all will be pressed on 180g vinyl at Third Man Pressing in Detroit. These selections will include long-out-of-print titles from the vault, in addition to first-ever vinyl pressings for albums released in the 1990s and 2000s that were only available on CD and digital formats. Focusing on rare gems and fan-requested jazz albums from the Verve Label Group’s stable of iconic labels, this intriguing vinyl series will offer two titles per month, each entry having been handpicked by Verve and Third Man. To wit: Verve Records/UMe and Third Man Records have partnered together to resurrect the popular Verve By Request reissue series.
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