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SPACED: COLLECTED WO [Vinyl]

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superlatives dont come easy.
this guy blew me away - what a talent.how longineu parsons has remained relatively undiscovered is beyond me.
thanks to 'ubiquity' for releasing the best album i've heard in recent years.listen to 'party in morocco' and a truly brilliant version of 'seach for the new land' and prepare to be astounded.
take 'don cherry' 'freddie hubbard' 'lee morgan'
'blue mitchell' and 'donald byrd' now add the name 'longineu parsons'.

Longineu Parsons'Collected Works 1980-1999 is one of the best CDs I purchased recently. Fans of early-seventies McCoy Tyner (Asante, Atlantis, Expansions, etc.) will love this stuff. These are all out free-flowing, jazz-funk jams. It's freejazz that never loses melody and soul.

Buy this now. You won't regret it.

[DW]

This is an intense album. There's no good way to describe it. It reminds me of a weird dream that is interesting enough to make you want to stay asleep but creepy enough to make you want to wake up. It's jazz at its core, but there are tons of spacy effects and trippy beats and just plain crazy stuff on it. The first time I heard it I loved it; the more I listened to it, the more the novelty wore off, but it's still a great album, if for nothing else than for its innovativeness.

Parsons is a great musician-- he has the kind of talent that spans jazz to blues to funk with ease. This is an incredible CD-- anyone who makes this selection will be delighted with the superb musicianship found here. Wow--this gets an A+