Khan Jamal - Give The Vibes Some LP

Label: seriE.WOC

Release Date: May 24th, 2024

Limited to 500 copies. Officially licensed from Khan Jamal's family.

It's quite simple, if you have a good connection with music, to find things that should be reissued due to their exceptional quality, but, like a diviner, being able to unravel the problems related to the licensing of a record, well, that's much more difficult. Finding someone is Sherlock's job! After 4 years, Khan Jamal II (son of Khan Jamal) delighted us with a "let's go my guy".

Khan Jamal doesn't need much introduction: Born Warren Robert Cheeseboro, he was a jazz vibraphone and marimba player from Philly. He founded the band Sounds Of Liberation in 1970 with Byard Lancaster. In 1974, during one of his many trips to the old continent, he recorded this album in France at Jeff Gilson's Palm studio.

It is a delicate game of lucid and intense contrasts between Christian Vander's drums provides a rock oriented touch, the marimba and the vibes with influences from the lands of the rising sun of Jamal and the composed trumpet of Clint Jackson III which anchor Give The Vibes Some in a sort of Space Age Jazz era.

In the end, you know what? This album is a transcendent journey into yourself, like an intense session of meditation ... even if "35.007 Feet Up" could easily be played by Jeff MiIls in his DJ Set.