SPIRITS-ALAN JONES with THE GHOST HUNTERS - 2001 BOP FUNK & spectacular drumming

featuring :

Alan Jones : drums

Gary Versace - hammond B3

David Friesen-Bass

Rob Davis - horns-reeds

Jay Thomas - horns-brass

Janet Chvatal - Soprano vocals

Kamau Sadiki - berimbau

This independently released "highDefinition" Cd HDCD was produced for a theatre play in 2001. 

It sounds like a labor of love. It's a compilation of 2 very talented people, and of course a cast of 

Many other talented folks. The topic is the resonate life behind  the 3rd dimension. It's a predominant 

master class musical affair as Alan Jones is a very talented Drummer coming from the jazz swing funk bop

side of the spectrum, and a healthy dose of experimentation. He's in the pocket and then swinging like

it's no-ting.

 The music structure does the topic very well, being very weird at times, going ambient 

to full bodied and interweaving different time signatures for the spritual gumbo being offered up.

I don't know how this was originally distro'd because I found this only a few weeks ago at a thrift store

on the pacific west coast of Canada, and it appears it's from Portland Oregon. It appears this was reissued

just with Alan Jones as the title credit and different package/graphics. 

The recording is awesome. They use the seldom used HDCD algorhythm..(which honestly I have to find out more

about) but due to the initial signal chain (which they discuss a bit in the liner notes) they used care to use really

nice analogue gear. It looks like the only digital aspect was the mix down to the HDCD. There is real hammond

organ, real horns, real drums. :D And the drums are mic'd in a very tasty method, not too future, a bit grit but 

very clear. I figure this needs more exposure, especially for those that like spiritual jazz music.

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