ASTRAL TRAVELING (LIMITED CLEAR YELLOW 'SUNRAY' VINYL EDITION)

For his 1973 debut album as a bandleader,
Lonnie Liston Smith assembled a killer band
of Cecil McBee on bass, George Barron on
sax, James Mtume and Sonny Morgan on
percussion, David Lee, Jr. on drums, Badal
Roy on table, Geeta Vashi on tamboura, and
Joe Beck on guitar. Such a multifaceted
ensemble was perfectly suited to explore the
spiritual jazz that Smith had encountered
while playing with Pharoah Sanders ("Let Us Go
into the House of the Lord" appears here and on Sanders' 1970 album Summun
Bukmun Umyun which featured Smith), all presided over by Flying Dutchman label
owner and former John Coltrane producer Bob Thiele. We've re-created the original
gatefold artwork with Nat Hentoff's liner notes...one of the great jazz albums of its
era, now pressed on clear yellow "sunray" vinyl limited to 600 copies!