RARE LLOYD McNEILL "ELEGIA" ORIG PRIVATE LP

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This auction is for the privately pressed "ELEGIA"-LP by flutist LLOYD McNEILL, recorded in 1979.
This is the rarest release on the private BAOBAB-label - and it is by far the best on McNeill´s 70s label (after 60s ASHA label).

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The first thing to know about Lloyd McNeill is that his are the very best soul-jazz flute LPs, and each is first-rate, a masterpiece of self-direction. The second thing to know is there is much more to him than his recorded legacy. He is one of those incredible, super-sensitive people who excels at every artistic idiom and endeavor; making wonderful music is just part of his flowing creativity. A professor (at Rutgers University, earlier Dartmouth), he has much to say about music and creativity as well as an impeccable gift for saying it...sensibly. McNeill's writings on his musical experiences provide invaluable documents of "the period" (late 1960s-1970s) as well as a rare glimpse at the joy of a relatively unsung master.

McNeill has played with jazz legends --Andrew White (his longtime collaborator/producer), Eric Dolphy, Sabu Martinez, Mulatu Astatke, among many others-- and he has had a significant hand in the arts scene of Washington, D.C. The major galleries of art, including those of the Smithsonian, sponsored multi-media "happenings" that soared far above the hippie caricature of acid rock with light show. During the first flowering of post-Civil Rights, African-American culture, the Lloyd McNeill Quartet's improvisitory, simultaneuous jazz and large-scale painting "happened" while a lucky, perhaps unsuspecting public drank it in.

(excerpts, taken from HipWax)
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___LLOYD McNEILL .......  FLUTE and ALTO FLUTE.
___DOM SALVADOR ....... PIANO.
___CECIL McBEE ....... BASS.
___PORTINHO ....... BRAZILIAN PERCUSSIONS.
___CLAUDIO CELSO ....... GUITAR
___NANÁ VASCONCELOS ....... PERCUSSIONS & VOCALS
___SUSAN OSBORN ....... VOCALS

Compositions:

1.   Samaba For The Animlas
2.   Behind The Wind
3.   Asha II
4.   Elegia Suite For Elizabeth
      a) Time
      b) The Mighty River
      c) The Wind
5.   Striped Pants (With Cadenza)
6.   Memory Cycle

Recorded dec 18, 1979 New York City
(released one year later, 1980)




COVER: heavy cardboard sleeve with almost no wear, superb clean & tight jacket
>> NM-
VINYL: wax shines bright, minor streaking in parts at most, one or two faint supercialial hairlines nap
>> EX+ to NM-
Copy plays great!






Payment:
Airmail shipment overseas: $17.00
Airmail shipment Europe: $12.00
Germany: 7.00 EURO (Paket)



Seller will not be responsible for items lost or damaged in transit if buyer does not pay for insurance!
Additional fee for registered shipment (delivery upon signature, trackable): $5.00
Record will be packaged very safely in a sturdy record mailer with additional bubbble-wrap and
cardboard stiffeners, jacket and vinyl separated to avoid any seam split in transit.