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The Awakening

Recorded	c. 1972
Label	Black Jazz Records
Released	1972
Personnel	8 credited players
Discogs	master 430670

The record

Frank Gordon and Ken Chaney co-led this sextet through Black Jazz Records' catalog with flugelhorn and electric piano tangled over Richard Evans' bass, Monica Chaney's spoken awakening poem framing the whole session.

Session personnel

Reggie Willis — bass
Arlington Davis, Jr. — drums
Richard Evans — electric bass
Frank Gordon — flugelhorn, trumpet, leader [co]
Ken Chaney — piano, electric piano, leader [co]
Ari Brown — tenor saxophone, flute
Steve Galloway — trombone
Monica Chaney — voice [awakening poem]

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 19 pressings on file.

1972	Black Jazz Records · BJQD/9 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Quadraphonic earliest on file
1972	Black Jazz Records · YX-6045 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Quadraphonic
1972	Black Jazz Records · BJQD/9 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo, Quadraphonic
1972	Black Jazz Records · BJQD/9 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Quadraphonic, Red Labels
1997	P-Vine Records · PCD-5228 — CD, Album
2005	Black Jazz Records · BJQD/9 — CD, Album, Reissue, Paper Sleeve
2006	Black Jazz Records · BJQD/9 — CD, Album, Reissue
2012	Black Jazz Records · BJQD/9 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2020	Black Jazz Records — STEREO
2020	Real Gone Music · RGM-1087 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
2020	Black Jazz Records · RGM-1085 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Clear Black Swirl
2020	Black Jazz Records · RGM-1085 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
2020	Real Gone Music · RGM-1085 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Test Pressing, Stereo
2020	Black Jazz Records · RGM-1087 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered