Max Roach It's Time hard bop gatefold LP 1962 VG RARE

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Max Roach
His Chorus and Orchestra

It's Time

Impulse Records A-16 12" 33 1/3 rpm 1962 (USA)

It is easy to underestimate Max Roach, but nearly impossible to overestimate his work. He came out of the bop era, but was on the cutting edge of jazz into the 1990s.

Here, Max takes the Civil Rights themes of "Bitter Sweet" and applies a choir to them, giving his musical and political thrust an almost godly urgency. Donald Byrd was also working with choirs at the time with equal effectivenes, but here, the musical and the political are impossible to separate. Choirs were common in music in 1962 - Mitch Miller, Bing Crosby - but Roach uses these pretty voices to provoke and discomfort us.

There is a lot going on musically, too: blues tinge but with lots of substitutions and Dolphy-esqe inversions. The fact that Roach could apply a vocal section to this and make it work only shows you how smart his arranging was.

Great artifact and great music. A must buy .

Tracklist
A1   It's Time 6:45
A2   Another Valley 8:46
A3   Living Room 6:16
B1   The Profit 7:31
B2   Lonesome Lover 7:32
B3   Sunday Afternoon 7:01

    * Bass – Art Davis
    * Chorus Master, Conductor – Coleridge Perkinson
    * Drums, Composed By, Arranged By – Max Roach
    * Piano – Mal Waldron
    * Producer – Bob Thiele
    * Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
    * Saxophone [Tenor] – Clifford Jordan
    * Trumpet – Julian Priester, Richard Williams
    * Vocals – Abbey Lincoln (tracks: B3)

Recorded at Fine Recording Studio, New York City, on February 15 (tracks A1, B1), February 26 (tracks A2, B2), February 27 (tracks A3, B3), 1962.

LP is Near Mint in a Very Good gatefold sleeve, comes with plasti-lined inner sleeve and plastic outer protector

Max Roach
His Chorus and Orchestra

It's Time

Impulse Records A-16 12" 33 1/3 rpm 1962 (USA)

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