New Grass


		*New Grass*


[LP cover of Impulse AS-9175]


	[CD cover MVCI-23041]



	[45” cover of EMI/$tateside C006-90158] click the image for the full effect


	[Back cover of CD booklet]


			discography


		[Promo copy of 45” Impulse 273] click the image for larger size

NEW GRASS

Tracks

1. Message From Albert

2.   New Grass

3.   New Generation

4.   Sun Watcher

5.   New Ghosts

6.   Heart Love

7.   Everybody's Movin'

8.   Free At Last

Personnel

Albert Ayler (tenor saxophone,bagpipe chanter,ocarina,vocals)

Call Cobbs (piano, organ, harpsichord [out on track 2])

Bill Folwell (bass guitar)

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums [out on track 2])

The Soul Singers (Rose Marie McCoy and Mary Maria (Parks)) (vocals [tracks 3, 6, 7,8])

A horn section was added later to tracks 1, 3, 6, 7 and 8, consisting of:

Burt Collins (trumpet)

Joe Newman   (trumpet)

Garnett Brown   (trombone)

Seldon Powell   (tenor sax, flute)

Buddy Lucas   (baritone saxophone)

Bert DeCoteaux    (arranger, conductor)

Recording Details

September 5, 1968

New York

(Horn section recorded September 6, 1968, New York)

Release Details

Released as New Grass on Impulse AS-9175, (UK) MIPL/SIPL519, (Japan) IMJ80015, (CD versions) MVCJ-19051, MVCI-23041.

A 45 rpm single was also released in France, with “New Generation” as the A-side and “Heart Love” as the B, on EMI/$tateside C006-90158.
A white label promotional copy of a 45 rpm single, with “New Ghosts” on the A-side and “Free At Last” on the B (Impulse 273wlp), turned up on ebay in August 2005.

(A further title, ‘Thank God For Women’, was recorded at the 5th September session, but was never released. However, the Revenant Holy Ghost box set does include some tracks from a rehearsal session for New Grass recorded in late August 1968, one of which is ‘Thank God For Women’.)

(Review of New Grass)

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