New Grass

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[LP cover of Impulse AS-9175]

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[CD cover Verve/Impulse
B000426902]

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[Cover of EMI/$tateside C006-90158]
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[CD cover MVCI-23041]

The Singles

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[Impulse 45-273]
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discography

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[Back cover of CD booklet]

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[Promo copy of 45” Impulse 273]
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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. 2005 CD release (US) B000426902 (remastered, digipack format).

A 45 rpm single (Impulse 45-273) was released with ‘Free At Last’ on the A-side and ‘New Ghosts’ on the B.
A 45 rpm single (with a bizarre sleeve) was also released in France, with “New Generation” as the A-side and “Heart Love” as the B, on EMI/$tateside C006-90158.
 

(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’.)

 

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