HERBIE HANCOCK Rare Acoustic LP Rudy Van Gelder NOS SEALED ABERCROMBIE / PLUMERI

SUPER RARE

“HE WHO LIVES IN 

MANY PLACES”

TERRY PLUMERI

MICHAEL SMITH

HERBIE HANCOCK

JOHN ABERCROMBIE

ERIC GRAVATT

 ORIGINAL

SEALED 12” VINYL LP

AIRBORNE RECORDING COMPANY

WASHINGTON, DC

℗1975 

It was with great sorrow we read about the murder in Florida of Terry Plumeri, a wonderful and talented musician, conductor and composer, there can be no rational explanation for the taking of Terry’s life / Terry was the leader on this remarkable but little known title, “He Who Lives In Many Places,” his debut jazz album featuring Herbie Hanock, John Abercrombie and Eric Gravatt (prior to joining Weather Report) / although for a time this title was available on Japanese CD import, an original vinyl copy is nearly impossible to find, much less in pristine, brand new shrink-wrapped condition / recorded in 1971 at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs studio, it is an amazing snapshot of a wonderful period in each of the performer’s careers, capturing this era of Jazz so well / please read the review from Discogs at the very bottom of this listing

NOTES: unplayed, new old store stock (NOS), still sealed vinyl presumed to be in MINT (M) condition; cover is in MINT (M) condition, with  perfect corners and perhaps the very slightest of shelfwear over the shrink-wrap /  for best view, please supersize the photo at the very top of this webpage and examine all 4 pictures of representative copy for condition 

ARC #2

SEALED 12” VINYL

“ONGOING”

TERRY PLUMERI

JOHN ABERCROMBIE

RALPH TOWNER

MICHAEL SMITH

MARC COHEN

NATIONAL SYMPHONY 

STRING QUARTET

℗1978

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I remember picking this up toward the beginning of my record collecting odyssey, maybe around 9-10 years ago, it was in a bargain bin, I got it on the strength of Herbie Hancock being featured, I remember listening to it, digging Timeworn in particular, and filing it away, occasionally recommending it to my fellow crate diggers when we'd be in the wild and it'd be like a $5 thing.

Flash forward, having Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi, Miles Davis In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, tons and tons of electronic jazz of the early 1970's inspired by, or from the side players doing their own hustle... perhaps a couple hundred or more LP's....

I came back, gave this a full listen recently, and was just utterly blown away, it really seems like Herbie's Crossing phase of his Mwandishi era, like a forgotten relic.... B3 Soft Colored Lightstream, and A2 He Who Lives in Many Places are different, almost as if they were thrown in to make a complete album...

However B2 Bees seems in many ways to anticipate certain elements that would be found in Herbie Hancock's "Hornets" on Sextant, as if Bees is the preliminary prototype, something Herbie came back to, refining, and changing, but "Bees" is a great step that is in that direction.

A1 Underwater, B1 Dayspring America, and A3 Timeworn have those stylistic touches one finds in Herbie Hancock's Crossings. It's not a replica or one for one of course, but the feel is there, clearly Herbie being a quintessential artist found himself in some of his most creative periods during the Mwandishi era, and then of course the Head Hunter's era, so it's not unreasonable that he likely had dozens of compositions that didn't make his album, it feels like "Underwater" "Dayspring America" "Timeworn" and "Bees" are examples of this, of course Terry Plumeri was his collaborator in a sense for these, likely adding his own unique artistic spin that is evident. 

I am always shocked how underrated this LP is, especially because many crate diggers actually do have it, rep it, and acknowledge it is amazing. 

Anyone into Herbie Hancock's "Mwandishi" era (Mwandishi, Crossings, Sextant), or electronic jazz of Miles, Weather Report, etc. as well as anyone with a crate digger sense, or a fan of the early electronic jazz that took on a spiritual, experimental, sui generis feel, pick this up! It seems to have been pressed in a decent quantity, likely this small label wanting to capitalize on Herbie's internationally renowned success, hoped they would have a quiet, but high volume seller, perhaps many just ended up in the bargain bins.....

Anyhow, one can find this under $10 consistently, it is so worth the price of admission, again A2, and B3 are different, good in their own way, but I may recommend skipping those two on the first listen, then give it the full, so the four Mwandishi era tracks, that are superb can have full impact....

Listen to Timeworn alone even, if a private press LP had only that, and every other track was say shlocky solo noodling guitar, people would still cop it for Timeworn.

Thankfully, no track is bad, four are out of this world, the other two take time, but are solid, merely different in mood. 

Treat Yo Self, and allow your jazz soul to live in many places...

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