Hear O Israel
Jonny
JAZZ
‘Hear, O Israel’ has to be one of the rarest and most extraordinary jazz recordings ever.
Originally privately pressed in 1968 in minute numbers and only for sale by mail order that year, the album was written by 17 year old JONATHON KLEIN and played by one of the greatest jazz line ups of all time: HERBIE HANCOCK leading on piano, JEROME RICHARDSON flute / tenor / alto sax, THAD JONES trumpet / flugelhorn, RON CARTER bass, Jonathan Klein french horn / baritone & GRADY TATE drums. The recording also features two vocalists and a Rabbi! In 1968 Klein had written an alternative concert for Friday Night Jewish prayers. The decision was made by a Jewish charitable organisation to take this concert a little further and record it properly. An extraordinary line up was put together (we have no idea how this came about), and the recording was made. It was pressed in very, very limited numbers without a real label, with no catalogue number and was only offered for sale at various prayer gatherings. Musically the album is quite superb, and like no other, with its awesome and wholly unique mixture of spiritual New York jazz, Hebrew praises and modal phrases.
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CD |
JBH025CD |
$27.95 |
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