Ali Hasaan Ibn Metaphysics The Lost Atlantic Vinyl LP 2021

1. Richard May Love Give Powell
2. Metaphysics
3. Epitome
4. True Train (Short Version) [Bonus Track]
5. Viceroy (Short Version) [Bonus Track]
6. Atlantic Ones (Short Version) [Bonus Track]

Recorded in 1965, Hasaan Ibn Ali's Lost Atlantic Album Found!. Includes Liner Notes by Alan Sukoenig and Lewis Porter. Contemporary and colleague of John Coltrane. Restored from long-lost acetate copies of the sessions"He had ideas as deep as the sea. I mean I never heard anybody, even today, play like that." - Odean Pope - tenor saxophonist"The pianist, Hasaan Ibn Ali, whom saxophonist Odean Pope calls "the most advanced player to ever develop [in Philadelphia]," had practiced intensively with John Coltrane in the early 1950s and is thought, by Pope and others, to have been the influence behind Coltrane's so-called sheets of sound as well as the harmonic approach that underlay Coltrane's breakthrough Giant Steps, and also, with Earl Bostic, one of the two role models behind Coltrane's strict work ethic. Yet he was rarely employed, even by musicians who respected his playing and his knowledge, thus leaving him with little chance to develop an audience. When he sat down at the piano at the Woodbine, an after-hours club in Philadelphia, all the horn players would leave the stand for they were unable to play with him, so unfamiliar were his harmonic concepts." - from the liner notesIn 1964, drummer/composer Max Roach convinced Atlantic Records to record him with producer Nusuhi Ertegun at the helm. Sessions were held in December of 1964 and the resulting album, The Max Roach Trio Featuring The Legendary Hasaan was released three months later. Atlantic invited Ali to record again in August and September of 1965, but before mixing sessions could turn the recorded material into a releasable album, Ali had become incarcerated on a narcotics possession. Atlantic shelved the album. Thirteen years later that tape went up in flames in an Atlantic Records warehouse in Long Branch, New Jersey. For years a rumor circulated, that a copy of the sessions had been made, but attempts to locate it never turned up a source.until now.Restored and mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer, Michael Graves