About

Detroit's Wendell Harrison is an award-winning saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. With Phil Ranelin he co-founded the Tribe in 1971. Their acclaimed albums included 1972's Message from the Tribe and Harrison's 1973 classic An Evening with the Devil. Harrison founded the Wen-Ha and Rebirth labels. Dreams of a Love Supreme appeared in 1980. 1993's Something for Pops was recorded with Harold McKinney. Carl Craig produced 2009's Tribe: Rebirth. In 2021, Harrison's lost 1975 album Farewell to the Welfare saw release . Current effort Get Up Off Your Knees the following year. Harrison joined Ranelin, Adrian Younge, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad and recorded Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison JID016.

Wendell Harrison was born in Detroit in 1942. He began studying clarinet at age seven. He attended Northwestern High School, and his classmates included trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer, drummer Roy Brooks, and saxophonist Charles McPherson. Harrison began formal jazz studies during the mid- to late '50s with pianist and composer Barry Harris at the Detroit Conservatory of Music (now called the Center for Creative Studies). During the latter part of the decade, he played early sessions for Motown and backed Marvin Gaye, as well as Aretha Franklin for Columbia.

This is the Tribe Records co-founder’s lost album, recorded in 1975, rumored to exist no more. Mastered from the original tapes and lacquered by Bernie Grundman. Included in an extensive, oversized booklet, Larry Gabriel and Jeff “Chairman” Mao take us through the history of the Tribe, in a compelling story that delves not just into the history of the label and its principals, but into the story of Black American empowerment in the latter half of the 20th Century. This is the individual release of the same mastering as the edition for the Now-Again Records & Vinyl Me Please, Anthology boxset, The Story of Tribe Records.— via Label

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Label: Now Again Records, Tribe
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Remastered, Stereo
Released: 2022
Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul
Style: Space-Age, Jazz-Funk

File under: Soul-Jazz / Jazz-Funk
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