Byard Lancaster “It’s Hot Up to Us”

Byard Lancaster

It’s Hot Up to Us

Vortex Records (US) 1968

2003 (LP) Original pressing. Promotional copy.

sleeve : VG+(SRW,WC,TEOC, slightly dirt. label on A: DJS)

media : EX-/EX-(some slightly noises caused by slightly hairlines. some light click noises.)

This is the first album released in 1968 by Byard Lancaster, an American lead player who began his career in the mid-1960s and worked with Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner, and Bill Dixon, and has left many masterpieces in his own leadership since the late 1960s. Quintet with Warren (Sonny) Sharrock (g), Jerome Hunter (b), Eric Grvatt (ds) and Kenny (Keno) Speller. Lancaster plays the flute as the main instrument, and the music ranges from ethnic jazz with a pleasantly light gypsy feel to psychedelic jazz with the electric guitar of Sharrock, who would release his masterpiece "Black Woman" on the same label the following year. A masterpiece among masterpieces with an extremely great rock approach that can only be heard in this work. The spiritual psychedelic jazz of the final track, B4, is the ultimate in the genre. Highly recommended. Original US pressing.

A1: It’s Hot Up to Us