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Elvin Jones – Revival: Live at Pookie’s Pub – Triple Vinyl Record
Revival: Live at Pookie’s Pub captures Elvin Jones in July 1967, shortly after leaving the John Coltrane Quartet and while establishing his first working band as a leader. The recordings place Jones in a small New York room with saxophonist Joe Farrell, keyboardist Billy Greene, and bassist Wilbur Little.
The club setting makes the drummer’s physical sound unusually immediate. Jones does not simply keep time behind the soloists; rolling triplets, cymbal swells, and shifting accents continuously reshape the performances. Farrell responds with tenor, soprano, and flute, giving the quartet a wide tonal range.
The repertoire combines originals with standards such as “My Funny Valentine,” “On the Trail,” “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise,” “Oleo,” and “A Night in Tunisia.” Familiar material becomes a framework for long interaction rather than a fixed arrangement.
Pieces associated with the band, including “Keiko’s Birthday March,” “13 Avenue B,” and “Raunchy Rita,” reveal how Jones was developing a post-Coltrane identity that remained rhythmically expansive without copying the quartet he had left.
Issued from previously unreleased tapes, this triple-vinyl set offers a substantial portrait of the residency rather than a short highlights disc. Revival is historically important, but its real value is musical: it catches a new band discovering its balance in front of a live audience.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Record Details
Artist: Elvin Jones
Title: Revival: Live at Pookie’s Pub
Format: Triple Vinyl Record
Label: Blue Note Records
Release year: 2022
UPC: 602445872053
Track Listing
LP 1. Keiko’s Birthday March
Ginger Bread Boy
13 Avenue B
My Funny Valentine
LP 2. M.E.
On the Trail
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
Raunchy Rita
LP 3. Oleo
A Night in Tunisia
H.M. on F.M.
The Witching Hour
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