Jones, Elvin - Poly-Currents (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) Wild Beasts

Jones, Elvin - Poly-Currents (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) Wild BeastsAfter his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet, the master drummer Elvin Jones signed with Blue Note in 1968 and began building his own career as a bandleader. His first two albums for the label were spare trio outingsPuttin It Together and The Ultimateboth featuring saxophonist Joe Farrell and bassist Jimmy Garrison. For his next album1969s unfettered post bop exploration Poly CurrentsJones expanded his ensemble with additional woodwinds

2 Procession

Unavailable on vinyl for more than three decades

"The riffs are thick

School's Out

The band's sound

Our Love to Admire

which now includes Steve Gere and Samantha Stidham

the 13-song set delivers freshly recorded originals - including "Christmas in April

5 Castor 2:18

The Verve By Request Series features 180-gram vinyl

a battler of convention

10 Living is the answer to the question that is asked by being alive