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Throughout his career, Chicago-born pianist and composer Jack Wilson had the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of musical projects with top-class artists such as Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Lou Rawls, Gerald Wilson, and Roy Ayers. He recorded several albums as a bandleader for Atlantic Records before making his debut for Blue Note in 1966 with the highly original “Something Personal”. The second of the three albums Wilson recorded for the renowned label, and – according to many critics – by far the best, is “Easterly Winds”, on which he is accompanied by a hand-picked hard bop sextet consisting of renowned trumpeter Lee Morgan, trombonist Garnett Brown, alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, double bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Billy Higgins. The program includes four original pieces by Wilson, including the groovy “Do It”, which opens the album and the sublime ballad “Nirvanna”. The delicate reinterpretation of Johnny Mandel's well-known standard “A Time For Love” and Frank Strozier's “Frank's Tune”, recently revisited by Makaya McCraven in his remix “Deciphering The Message”, make “Easterly Winds” a must-have in the Blue Note catalog.
As part of the extremely popular “Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series” Universal Music Japan presents the sonically impressive remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for Blue Note US's analog reissues such as “Tone Poet” and “Classic Vinyl” – as a limited Japan only UHQCD with OBI stripe. The original recording sessions for “Easterly Winds” took place on September 22, 1967 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
UHQCD
1. Do It
2. On Children
3. A Time For Love
4. Easterly Winds
5. Nirvana
6. Frank’s Tune