LEO SMITH Creative Music I Rare Free Jazz ORIG 1972 private press on KABELL NM

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LEO SMITH: “Creative Music I”

LABEL: KABELL Records

Label Number: K-1

*** RARE US FIRST ORIGINAL PRESS FROM 1972

*** rare Private Press free jazz slide

*** TOP condition. ARCHIVE COPY!!!!

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint – perfectly preserved, shiny and glossy surface without any defects. Clean labels, top condition copy

Jacket: Near Mint – no defects. With fully readable spine/ sharp corners and straight edges.

Some words on this issue: SMITH, LEO: “Creative Music – 1- Six Solo Improvisations” (Kabell Records – K-1/ LS-18271) Original 1972 US pressing. “Subtitled "Six Solo Improvisations," this artist-produced record from 1972 remains an important historical document and will hopefully not be the only commercial release of this improvising master's solo performances from this era, which were in two words consistently outstanding. An all-encompassing vision exists around the musicSmith would create in his setup with various trumpets, woodflutes, and xylophone, along with a self-designed system of steel poles supporting various gongs and metal objects. It is a music in which the performer becomes the master not only of sound, but of silence. The ringing out and placement of various tones through these pieces makes one feel in the presence of some sort of all-knowing spirit. There is no nervousness, agitation, or over-eagerness to the movements. A joke at the time was that this album had been pressed on a waffle iron. The surface noise has become less of an issue as time marches on, although it is still a pity. During these years of the Kabell company, Smith was refusing to release his music on other labels out of fear of losing ownership of his compositional properties. The real plus of musician-run labels is that the listener has the possibility to receive a completely uncompromised, pure version of the artist's work, and, in the case of this album, that is one large treasure indeed.” (All Music Guide).

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