LLOYD McNEIL & MARSHALL HAWKINS : TANNER SUITE [Universal Sound]

Catalogue : Blue Note / BST-4195
Format : LP, Vinyl, Reissue, RM
Condition : USED / NM / NM
Country : UK
Released : 2015
Genre : Spiritual Jazz, Jazz

Soul Jazz Records/Universal Sound are releasing here the third album from deep jazz flautist and composer Lloyd McNeill. Tanner Suite is one of the most beautiful and by far the rarest of all of McNeill’s records, a unique piece of music especially commissioned by the Smithsonian National Gallery Of Art in the late 1960s to accompany an exhibition of the work of Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African-American painter ever to gain international success.
This beautiful and intense set of pieces based around improvisation was the soundscape to the significant exhibition of Tanner's work, created at an important point in post-civil rights African-American self-definition. The music is both profound and spiritual.
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