Midnight Special (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP SOVRSAPRIL24SALE Rakei’s music is revered for

Rakei’s music is revered for its iconic DIY sound

Lee Alexander stayed on the bass

The prodigiously talented trumpeter Theodore “Fats” Navarro was a bebop innovator whose career was cut tragically short when he died in 1950 at the age of 26

A Voice Through the Door

Midnight Special (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP SOVRSAPRIL24SALE Rakei’s music is revered forIts a testament to Jimmy Smiths volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classicsMidnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shackin a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25, 1960 with Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Donald Bailey on drums. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master