A Monastic Trio (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP Virgin Label Services This bluesy and spirited offering

This bluesy and spirited offering featured five evocative Hubbard originals including “Soul Surge

Leo Parker was the first bebop bari sax player and a member of Billy Eckstine’s Unholy Four saxophone section with Dexter Gordon in the mid-40s

the title track of which was described as “effervescent” by The New York Times and named one of NPR’s Best Songs of 2018

The album contains the funk driven track Third Road

Only Trust Your Heart

A Monastic Trio (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP Virgin Label Services This bluesy and spirited offeringRecorded in 1968 and intended as a tribute to her late husband, Alice Coltrane is supported in her first solo outing by Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison and Rashied Ali all members of John Coltranes last quintet. While initial reviews to the album were lukewarm upon release, looking at it in the context of her larger body of work, A Monastic Trio serves as a delightful foreshadowing of what was to come. This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180