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the lightmen plus one - energy control center - now again - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz

1. Wench
2. Blues For Curtis
3. Cold Bair
4. Energy Control Center
5. Leo
6. Jupiter's Child
7. The Phantom
8. Leo (Alternate)
9. All Praises To Allah (Alternate)
10. Cold Bair (Alternate)
11. The Phantom (Alternate)
12. All Praises To Allah (7" Single Version)
13. Me
14. Thomas Meloncon - Ain't Gonna Wait Too Long
15. Thomas Meloncon - Bullets Of A Gun
16. Thomas Meloncon - Waiting On Your Mind
17. Thomas Meloncon - 400 Years

Revolutionary, spiritual jazz from the unlikely city of Houston, Texas: the definitive issue, mastered from the original tapes. Bonus disc contains previously unreleased tracks !

Drummer, bandleader and activist Bubbha Thomas had toured America with R&B revues, served as a session musician for Peacock and Back Beat Records, and played straight ahead jazz with legends before the political and social upheaval of the late 1960s led him to a path first charted by Coltrane. Energy Control Center, his third LP with his Lightmen band is his masterpiece: deep-set, maverick jazz on part with the best Tribe and Strata East titles.
This is a highpoint amongst the best of the 1970s jazz underground, a collective voice of resistance to the musical and cultural status quo. Contains second disc with bonus tracks: unreleased alternate takes, including two versions of the spiritual jazz classic “All Praises To Allah”, all housed with an extensive booklet with photos and liner notes.