Doug Carn & friends ~ Black Jazz Megadrop

Infant Eyes 1971
Spirit of the New Land 1972
Revelation 1973
Adam's Apple 1974

been listening to Doug Carn fer mosta the summer. the joints he dropped on Black Jazz are some of the most scintillating slabs in the spiritual jazz canon, the first 3 of which featuring the soaring vocals of his wife Jean. 'Revelation' from 73 & 'Adam's Apple' from 74 are likely me prevailing faves of the bunch as they are the most consistently catchy & feature prominent electric piano & moog. seriously stellar vibrations are pulsating thru these grooves & the lyrics are uplifting prayers of brotherhood. jazz like this won't likely happen again so do yerself a solid & grab 4 of the finest Black Jazz LP's extant, lovingly ripped at 320 & by far the toughest sounding transfers in blogland, bar none. to download just clic on any of the album covers above, but be sure to peep the source! there's plenty more honey to be harvested pon the benevolent blog o blog from whence deez treasures sprang, so go dwell like a ghost, black angel or simply snap up this torrent [thx reza for the tip!] & get sprung on the entire black jazz catalogue

Rudolph Johnson ~ The Second Coming [Black Jazz,1973]

A1 The Traveller 7:14
A2 Time And Space 7:19
A3 The Highest Pleasure 7:39

B1 The Water Bearer 6:42
B2 The Second Coming 8:56

Arranged By - Rudolph Johnson
Artwork By - Bud Doty
Bass - Kent L. Brinkley
Drums - Douglas J. Sides
Piano - Kirk Lightsey
Producer - Gene Russell
Saxophone [Tenor] - Rudolph Johnson

From the flip:
'One of the factors that keeps creative black music alive and changing is the ability of the musicians to blend their experience and emotions into the actual fibers(sic) of the music. RUDOLPH JOHNSON is a black musician who has reached that plane where spirit and techniques fuse to form free creative energy. This second album for Rudolph is like the transition between these two states, releasing the energies of rebirth.....THE SECOND COMING.'

black jazz #11. a gem of spiritual jazz, previously dropped here but since removed, allegedly at the request of the now notoriously corrupt black jazz imprint who still operate out of their po box in north highlands, california & ca$h folks' cheques without actually deliverin any records to em. so this truly is the 'second coming' & ought be heard by musicians & connoiss-ears alike, specially side a. likewise with rudy's spring rain album & really, the majority of the black jazz catalogue. 320 tanx to thee original illuminators