Musik: Hasaan Ibn Ali – The lost Album – likehifi.de

The previously unpublished material was unearthed by Hasaan Ibn Ali like a sunken treasure. The lost album with previously unreleased material from 1965 is released by the Omnivore Recordings label “Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album” on CD and as a double LP.

Hasaan Ibn Ali hung up again

The then almost unknown, but now highly respected jazz pianist and composer Hasaan Ibn Ali, born in 1931, recorded with greats like Max Roach in the 1960s and played alongside them John Coltrane. The American influences this immensely and is therefore considered to be the pioneer of Coltrane’s world career. It is Roach who moves Atlantic Records to record an album with Ibn Ali. The sessions for this took place in August and September 1965 in New York’s Atlantic Studios. But even before the mixing, the artist was arrested for a narcotic offense. The recordings disappear in the archive and go up in flames 13 years later in a warehouse fire. The work seems lost … Until a copy of the material was recently rediscovered.

Time travel into jazz history

“Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album” will be released on April 23rd on Omnivore Recordings on CD and double LP. The work, prepared by the Grammy-winning sound engineer Michael Graves, contains seven original songs from the sessions and three alternative song versions as bonus tracks. In addition to Hasaan Ibn Ali on piano, Odean Pope (tenor saxophone), Art Davis (bass) and Kalil Madi (drums) play. If the circumstances under which the songs disappeared in the drawer for over half a century were not a reason to buy the “new” jazz record, it is definitely the sound. Record lovers who are particularly audiophile can expect fireworks. Assuming the right hardware, it beams “Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album” directly into a smoky jazz club in Philadelphia in the 1960s. Piano, bass, saxophone and drums are the main characters here.