Soul Jazz Records/Universal Sound is releasing the third album from deep jazz
flautist and composer Lloyd McNeill (alongside the earlier ‘Asha’ and
‘Washington Suite’). Tanner Suite is one of the most beautiful and by far
the rarest of all of McNeill’s records.
A unique piece of music especially commissioned by the Smithsonian National
Gallery Of Art in the late 1960s, to accompany an exhibition of the work of
Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first AfricanTAmerican painter ever to gain
international success.
Tanner Suite was originally released in 1969 as a private, individually
numbered pressing of 1000 copies on McNeill’s own Asha Record company and
has never been issued since. Soul Jazz Records new pressing of this album is
also limited to 1000 copies each on vinyl and CD. Both editions come in
heavyweight exactTreplica hard tipTon USA
card sleeve original artwork. In addition, there will be a worldwide
digital release.
Lloyd McNeill is a flautist, composer and painter. As a musician he studied with Eric Dolphy, played with Nina Simone, Mulatu Astatke, Nana Vasconceles, Ron Carter, Dom um Romao and Sabu Martinez. In the mid-1960s McNeill headed to Paris and became friends with Pablo Picasso.