Fuschia Swing Song (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP Released This Month - June The (Shipped) Gold Standard

The (Shipped) Gold Standard

Album opener "Finding Ways" uses a spiraling bass line

” Few songwriters not only fail to match Shalom’s excavating introspection but also the grace with which she deals with these uncomfortable truths

That’s about the way we justify the bad things we do

with De Roubaix’ son Benjamin commenting that the “composer achieves a perfect balance and the result is a bleak and eerie soundtrack that stands on a par with the music of Ennio Morricone in A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin or - in a different style - that of Isaac Hayes for Shaft”

Fuschia Swing Song (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP Released This Month - June The (Shipped) Gold StandardA saxophonist of striking originality, Sam Rivers arrived fully formed on his debut album Fuchsia Swing Song recorded for Blue Note in 1964. Though a strong avant garde undercurrent flowed through his music, Rivers kept a foot planted firmly in post bop and the blues on this impressive set of originals including his stunning ballad Beatrice. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master