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Saturday Night Special

by The Lyman Woodard Organization

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Following Woodard’s death in 2009, this incredible album was reissued in highly limited numbers by Wax Poetics; now just as hard to come by as the original pressings. It’s our pleasure to make this important and influential chapter in the story of contemporary jazz available on vinyl once again.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saturday Night Special via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      £30 GBP or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Tracklist:
    1. Saturday Night Special (Part I)
    2. Saturday Night Special (Part II)
    3. Joy Road
    4. Belle Isle Daze (Part I)
    5. Belle Isle Daze (Part II)
    6. Creative Musicians
    7. Cheeba (Part II)
    8. Cheeba (Part II)
    9. Allen Barnes
    10. On Your Mind
    11. Help Me Get Away
    12. Saturday Night Special (Alternate Take)
    13. Saturday Night Special (Lost Alternative Mix)
    14. Belle Isle Daze (Lost Alternative Mix)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saturday Night Special via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Purchasable with gift card

      £25 GBP or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      £8 GBP  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saturday Night Special via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    edition of 4  3 remaining
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      £70 GBP or more 

     

  • Limited Edition 7" Vinyl (Japanese Pressing)
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Side A - Creative Musicians
    Side B - Saturday Night Special (Part 1)

    Limited edition Japanese pressing 7" Vinyl. Only available from BBE outside of Japan. On for the collectors!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saturday Night Special via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • CD Album
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Saturday Night Special CD comes in a lovely gatefold card case

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saturday Night Special via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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about

In association with DJ Amir’s 180 Proof Records, BBE is honoured to present another gem from the small yet significant Strata catalogue. A precursor to New York’s Strata East, Detroit’s Strata Records was founded in the late 1960s by former Blue Note artist Kenny Cox.
Starting life as a music-led community organisation, coffee shop studio and venue, Strata released only a few titles as a record label, gaining the imprint a cult following among record collectors and jazz lovers across the globe.

Possibly the best known of Strata’s releases, The Lyman Woodard Organization’s ‘Saturday Night Special’ is rightly heralded as a jazz fusion classic. Recorded in 1975, ‘Saturday Night Special’ features organ, electric piano and Mellotron by bandleader Lyman Woodard
alongside guitar and bass by Ron English, with drums and percussion by Leonard King, Bud Spangler & Lorenzo "Mr. Rhythm" Brown respectively. Despite the fairly sparse instrumentation, ‘Saturday Night Special’ lays down an impressive wall of sound, powerfully atmospheric in its almost low-fi aesthetic. Hinting at more traditional jazz, rhythm & blues, afrocuban styles and more, the uniqueness of this album is surely in its feel: summoning up images of a vast industrial landscape, assembly lines and urban decay. In other words, this record sounds like Detroit.

No great album artwork is complete without a good story to match, and ‘Saturday Night Special’ does not disappoint. Snapped by photographer and political activist Leni Sinclair (responsible for seminal pictures of Miles Davis, Fela Kuti and John Coltrane and many others), the cover image shows the contents of Lyman
Woodard’s pockets placed on the hotel bed after a show: cigarette papers, cash and a pistol.

Following Woodard’s death in 2009, this incredible album was reissued in highly limited numbers by Wax Poetics; now just as hard to come by as the original pressings. It’s our pleasure to make this important and influential chapter in the story of contemporary jazz available on vinyl once again.

For Fans Of: J Dilla, Nostalgia 77, Herbie
Hancock, Roy Ayers, Miles Davis.

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released November 17, 2017

2017, BBE

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