Charles Lloyd - Manhattan Stories (RSD 2021)

This is a Record Store Day 2021 release.

Back by popular demand, the critically acclaimed 2014 Resonance release, Manhattan Stories, by tenor saxophone icon Charles Lloyd is available once again as a deluxe, limited-edition (of 3,000 copies worldwide) 180gram 2-LP 2nd pressing newly remastered by renowned engineer Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, cut at 33 1/3 RPM and pressed by Record Technology Inc. (RTI). This previously unissued album features guitarist Gbor Szbo, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Pete La Roca captured live in 1965 at Judson Hall and Slugs in New York City. The extensive booklet includes essays by the late, esteemed music critic Stanley Crouch, along with Willard Jenkins, Don Heckman and Michael Cuscuna; plus rare photos by Hank Parker, Francis Wolff, Lee Tanner and Raymond Ross.