MAX ROACH - Members, Don’t Git Weary (2023 Arc Records Mono Mastered Edition) - LP - Deluxe 180g Vinyl

LP - 180g Black Vinyl. Mastered in Mono from the original analogue master tapes by the multi-Grammy winning Bernie Grundman. Features a full-colour 4-page insert with brand new sleeve-notes featuring Charles Tolliver and Gary Bartz.

Max Roach wasn't just one of the greatest drummers and percussionists in jazz history; he was also one of the greatest bandleaders in all of jazz, able to adapt his playing to an innumerable array of styles, from bop to free, and blessed with a keen eye and ear for talent. And he always, always kept pushing himself and his bandmates to find new modes of musical expression throughout his six-decade career. Speaking of modes, this 1968 release on the Atlantic label is one of his finest albums, a masterpiece of modal jazz featuring a crack outfit of saxman Gary Bartz, trumpeter Charles Tolliver, bassist Jymie Merritt, pianist Stanley Cowell (composer of half the tracks on the album including the gem "Equipoise"), and, on the title track, vocalist Andy Bey. Discerning ears might detect the first hints of jazz fusion, but Members, Don't Git Weary is simply modern jazz of the highest order. 

This Arc Records reissue of Members, Don’t Git Weary is mastered in Mono from the original analogue master tapes by the multi-Grammy winning Bernie Grundman (Steely Dan, Michael Jackson, Prince, Dr Dre), pressed on 180g vinyl and features a full-colour 4-page insert with brand new sleeve-notes featuring Charles Tolliver and Gary Bartz as well as never before published images of Max Roach from 1968 from the Warners Archive. The entire release is presented with the original artwork printed on heavy-weight card with a matte finish and wrapped in the signature Arc Records bellyband.

Tracklist:

A1. Abstrutions [3:38]
A2. Libra [5:55]
A3. Effi [6:11]

B1. Equipoise [6:20]
B2. Members, Don't Git Weary [5:28]
B3. Absolutions [4:40]