Woody Shaw: Song Of Songs (180g, Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf series) [CONCORD JAZZ]

Why you'll love it

Woody Shaw's 1972 session for Contemporary, back on vinyl for the first time in over 50 years. Four Shaw originals that sit, as AllMusic's Scott Yanow put it, between hard bop, modal musings and the avant-garde, with George Cables on piano, Henry Franklin on bass and Bennie Maupin among the saxophones.

This edition

• Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf series
• All-analog, cut by Bernie Grundman from the original master tapes
• 180g, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing
• Gatefold tip-on jacket

About the album

Shaw had the fire of Freddie Hubbard and a harmonic imagination all his own, and Song Of Songs catches him stretching out on long, searching modal pieces, from the title track to "The Awakening". Long overlooked, now done justice.

For anyone who loves 70s spiritual and post-bop jazz.

Also at Kops: more Jazz

Tracklist

1. Song Of Songs
2. The Goat And The Archer
3. Love: For The One You Can't Have
4. The Awakening

On Craft Recordings / Contemporary, a reissue of the 1973 album.