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Artist:	MCNEILL QUARTET, THE LLOYD
Title:	Asha
Label:	UNIVERSAL SOUND (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	US 031CD

"African-American flute player Lloyd McNeill's self-distributed record label ran from 1968-73. Lloyd McNeill is a multidisciplinary artist -- a painter who lived in Paris in 1965 and was a friend of Picasso, a musician who has worked with Nina Simone, Nana Vasconceles, Ron Carter, Cecil McBee and many more and a music anthropologist, poet and teacher. In the 1960s, he was involved in the Civil Rights Movement and produced music for ballet, paintings and installations. His music mixes jazz with Latin, Brazilian and African rhythms that McNeill learnt while studying anthropology in his travels through much of Africa and Brazil (where he joined with Dom Salvador, Paulinho da Viola, Paulo Maura and Martinho da Vila). The album comes with extensive sleevenotes, an interview with Lloyd McNeill as well as exclusive photos and text. CD comes in a Soul Jazz box package."

Artist:	MCNEILL QUARTET, THE LLOYD
Title:	Washington Suite
Label:	UNIVERSAL SOUND (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	US 039CD

"Soul Jazz is issuing this super-rare deep spiritual jazz album from the Lloyd McNeill Quartet. This album was originally released by flute player Lloyd McNeill on his own private-press Asha Recording Company in Washington, DC in 1969 (30 years ago!), it is the rarest most in-demand of McNeill's albums and only 1000 copies were ever pressed and Washington Suite has been an extremely rare serious collector's deep spiritual jazz album ever since, going for many hundreds of pounds at auction. African-American flute player Lloyd McNeill's self-distributed record label ran from 1968-73. Lloyd McNeill is a multidisciplinary artist -- a painter who lived in Paris in 1965 and was a friend of Picasso, a musician who has worked with Nina Simone, Nana Vasconceles, Ron Carter, Cecil McBee and many more and a music anthropologist, poet and teacher. In the 1960s he was involved in the civil-rights movement and produced music for ballet, paintings and installations. Washington Suite was composed for the Capital Ballet Company, Washington in 1970. Soul Jazz/Universal Sound reissued the first Lloyd McNeil album, Asha (US 031CD & US 031LP ) , earlier this year." Limited edition hard-case CD edition.

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