Doug Carn – Infant Eyes - Remastered (Blue/Black Swirl LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record
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Doug Carn arrived at Black Jazz in 1971 as part of a wave of musician-composers who treated spiritual seeking and jazz vocabulary as inseparable, drawing a direct line from Coltrane's modal devotion to the soul and gospel currents running through the Black community in that era. The decision to set lyrics to existing jazz compositions wasn't a novelty move; it was a theological one, with Jean Carn's voice transforming instrumental meditations into something closer to sacred song.
Nobody recorded as much as keyboardist/composer Doug Carn did for the Black Jazz label; his four records for the imprint are recognized as spiritual/free/soul jazz classics, Carn's 1971 debut for Black Jazz, Infant Eyes, introduced his stylistic wrinkle of adding lyrics to jazz classics like John Coltrane's "Acknowlegement (A Love Supreme)," Horace Silver's "Peace," and Wayne Shorter's title track, all sung by the gorgeous, thrilling voice of his wife Jean Carn. A crack outfit of drummer Michael Carvin, saxophonist/flautist George Harper, trombonist Al Hall, Jr., trumpeter Bob Frazier, and bassist Henry Franklin (himself leader of two treasured Black Jazz releases) backs the couple. A moving, beautiful listen that sounds ever more contemporary, now remastered, annotated, and pressed in blue with black swirl vinyl limited to 500 copies.
Tracklist:
- Welcome
- Little B's Poem
- Moon Child
- Infant Eyes
- Passion Dance
- Acknowledgement
- Peace
UPC: 848064021698
Label: Real Gone Music
Release Date: 8.7.26
Format: LP Vinyl