Excellent 1972 Jazz Funk LP - GARY BARTZ NTU TROOP "Juju Street Songs" PRESTIGE
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Description
Juju Street Songs is an album by saxophonist Gary Bartz's NTU Troop recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label. 1st pressing. Label is dated 1972. Please view all photos before bidding. We carefully layer and pack all of our records for safe arrival. Record has been re-sleeved using a duble layer archival inner sleeve and poly resealable outer sleeve. Record has been ultrasonically cleaned.
This LP comes from a pristine collection of 1970's recordings. Sleeve shows slight shelf wear at best. A very nice example. Just some very slight bumped corners showing minimal wear. Cover is glossy and has no ring wear at all. Vinyl is very clean and play tested EX using a Shure V15 Type II cartridge and styli mounted to a Technics SL1200 MK5. Vinyl does show a few paper sleeve surface scuffs but they are superficial. A fine example for your collection.
Gary Bartz NTU Troop – Juju Street Songs
Label: Prestige – P 10057 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: 1, 1, Jazz Style: FusionTracklist
A1 I Wanna Be Where You Are 10:04 A2 Black Maybe 9:38 B1 Bertha Baptist 6:32 B2 Africans Unite 6:30 B3 Teheran 8:20Credits
- Alto Sax, Soprano Sax, Sopranino, Voice, Electric Piano, Percussion – Gary Bartz
- Bass, Electric Bass, Voice, Percussion – Stafford James
- Drums, Voice, Percussion – Howard King
- Vocals, Electric Piano, Percussion – Andy Bey
Notes
Recorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California, October 1972.BIO: Bartz studied at the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, he performed with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop. He worked as a sideman with Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln before joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. In 1968, he was a member of McCoy Tyner's band, Expansions.
In mid-1970, he joined Miles Davis' band, performing live at the Isle Of Wight festival in August; and at a series of December dates at The Cellar Door club in Washington, D.C. Portions of these shows were initially released on the 1971 Live-Evil album, with the entire six performance/four night run eventually released in full on the 2005 Cellar Door Sessions box set. He later formed the band Ntu Troop, which combined jazz, funk, and soul. Bartz was awarded the BNY Mellon Jazz 2015 Living Legacy Award, which was presented at a special ceremony at The Kennedy Center. In the liner notes to the album The Red and Orange Poems, jazz critic Stanley Crouch called Bartz "one of the very best who has ever picked up the instrument".
In 2019, Revive Music and Bartz celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his Another Earth album at Winter Jazzfest in New York City, alongside original member Pharoah Sanders. Later that year, in collaboration with Moon31, he celebrated the same album at the North Sea and Newport Jazz Festivals with original member Charles Tolliver and Nasheet Waits (son of Freddie Waits), alongside Ravi Coltrane.
He is Professor of Jazz Saxophone at Oberlin College.
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