{"title":"Jazz Dispensary","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"woody-shaw-song-of-songs-jazz-dispensary-top-shelf-series","title":"Woody Shaw - Song Of Songs (Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series 180g Black Vinyl LP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCraft Recordings issues Song of Songs here under its Jazz Dispensary imprint as part of the Top Shelf Series, the line the label is using to mark Jazz Dispensary's tenth anniversary. This edition, catalog number CR00971, is an all-analog (AAA) cut from the original tapes, pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing and housed in a tip-on jacket built around the original Contemporary Records cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back of the jacket reproduces the original sleeve's long liner essay: Shaw's own account of learning the trumpet in Newark, his years with Horace Silver and the thinking behind each of the four pieces, transcribed from a taped interview at Contemporary on October 4, 1972. Cover and liner photographs are by Bret Lopez, with design by George Kershaw.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSong of Songs was Shaw's second album as a leader, coming after Blackstone Legacy and before The Moontrane. It was recorded at Contemporary's studio in Los Angeles on September 15 and 18, 1972, produced by Lester Koenig and John Koenig with Michael Denecke as session engineer, and released by Contemporary in 1973. Shaw plays trumpet alongside Emanuel Boyd on flute and tenor saxophone, Ramon Morris on tenor saxophone, George Cables on piano and electric piano, Henry Franklin on bass and Woodrow Theus II on drums and percussion; Bennie Maupin takes the tenor chair on \"The Goat and the Archer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShaw wrote all four compositions. Craft's notes say the nearly 12-minute title track is built on an Indonesian five-note scale and was dedicated to the people of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, that \"The Goat and the Archer\" takes its name from his Capricorn sign, and that \"Love: For the One You Can't Have\" was written after his separation from his wife. 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Craft Recordings limited the run to 4,800 copies worldwide and issued it through Record Store Day as a U.S. exclusive, with select international retailers carrying smaller allocations. The label states that the U.S. edition carries a \"prescription\" insert and comes housed in an oversized bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe record marks ten years of Jazz Dispensary, the imprint Craft Recordings launched in 2016 with the Cosmic Stash box set on Record Store Day. That set ran to four LPs, each a themed \"blend\" (Soul Diesel, Purple Funk, OG Kush and Astral Travelin') pressed on translucent-colored vinyl. HIGH Lights pulls selections from all four blends into one nine-track sequence drawn from the Prestige, Milestone and Fantasy catalogs. The imprint's later Record Store Day compilations include The Dank D-Funk Blend (2019) and Night Lights (2025), and Craft Recordings president Sig Sigworth is its founder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lineup runs through Patrice Rushen, Funk, Inc., David Axelrod, The Blackbyrds, Gary Bartz NTU Troop, Johnny Lytle, Jack DeJohnette and Johnny Hammond. Side A opens on a 7-inch edit of Rusty Bryant's \"Fire Eater,\" the title track of the tenor saxophonist's 1971 Prestige album, recorded at Van Gelder Studio with Bob Porter producing. 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Jazz Dispensary is Craft's imprint for music drawn from the Prestige, Fantasy, Contemporary and Milestone catalogs, and Craft describes this set as the first wide reissue since the album's original 1971 release on Contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll four sides were cut from the original analog tapes and pressed on 180-gram black vinyl at RTI. The two discs sit in a tip-on gatefold jacket that reproduces the original Contemporary design and carries Nat Hentoff's original liner notes, including commentary from Shaw himself. The reissue's catalog number is CR00520; the 1971 Contemporary issue was S7627\/8.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShaw recorded the album at A\u0026amp;R Studios in New York City on December 8 and 9, 1970, with Lester Koenig producing. He had no working band of his own at the time. Pianist George Cables and drummer Lenny White came from Joe Henderson's group, while bassist Ron Carter and reed players Bennie Maupin and Gary Bartz had all worked for Miles Davis in the preceding years. Clint Houston joined on electric bass, and he and Carter play together on four of the six tracks. The stereo mix places Bartz and Carter on the left channel and Maupin and Houston on the right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShaw dedicated the record to the youth of the era and, in his own words, to \"the freedom of Black people all over the world.\" The title track runs past sixteen minutes and fills side A on its own, as the Cables composition \"New World\" does side C. \"Boo-Ann's Grand\" is named for Shaw's wife, Betty Ann, and was first recorded with Jackie McLean in 1967 as \"Boo-Ann's Grind.\" The closing \"A Deed for Dolphy\" honors Eric Dolphy, the mentor Shaw had played alongside as a sideman. 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Kevin Gray cut the lacquers at Cohearent Audio from the original analog master tapes, keeping the chain all-analog (AAA). RTI pressed the record on 180-gram black vinyl. It ships in a tip-on gatefold jacket that restores the Milestone label design under catalog number CR00655.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe session took place at Plaza Sound Studios in New York on May 23 and 29, 1969, with Orrin Keepnews producing. Milestone issued the album that same year as Henderson's third studio album for the label, following Tetragon. Herbie Hancock moves between acoustic piano and Fender Rhodes, Ron Carter between double bass and electric bass, and Jack DeJohnette plays drums throughout. Trumpeter Mike Lawrence joins on the two quintet numbers recorded on the first day, \"Afro-Centric\" and the title track. Hancock's electric piano and Carter's bass guitar were the first electric instruments to appear on a Henderson record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album holds the first recording of Henderson's \"Black Narcissus,\" a tune he returned to as the title track of a 1977 Milestone album. 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The label's announcement calls it the album's first return to vinyl in more than 50 years. Kevin Gray cut the lacquers from the original analog tapes, all-analog (AAA), at Cohearent Audio. Fidelity Record Pressing pressed the two 180-gram LPs, and they are housed in a gatefold tip-on jacket that keeps the Prestige logo of the first issue and carries catalog number CR00972.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe double album was recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 7, 1973, and Prestige released it later that year. The quartet is Gary Bartz on soprano and alto saxophone and vocals, Hubert Eaves on acoustic and electric piano, Stafford James on bass and Howard King on drums. Over more than seventy minutes the band moves between original compositions and long stretches of improvisation, and the back cover credits Bartz as arranger and producer. \"Bertha Baptist\" is a Stafford James composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title track sets lines from Langston Hughes' poem \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers,\" sung by Bartz with the trio behind him. The National Endowment for the Arts, which named Bartz a 2024 NEA Jazz Master, describes the album as based on Hughes' poetry and counts it among his first classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBartz was born in Baltimore and joined Miles Davis's band in 1970, playing the Isle of Wight Festival that year; he has since won two Grammy Awards. He named NTU Troop after the Bantu word for \"essence,\" and the group drew soul, funk, African folk music, hard bop and avant-garde jazz into one band. 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