Gary Bartz

Featuring: Pharoah Sanders

condition (record/cover): VG+ (surface noise at the beginning of both sides) / VG (spine and ring wear and tape repair of top seam)

Gatefold sleeve.

Second copy of the 1968 Milestone statement, and no surprise - Another Earth moves whenever it lands in the racks, and lately it barely lands at all. Gary Bartz surrounded by Pharoah Sanders, Charles Tolliver, Stanley Cowell, Reggie Workman and Freddie Waits: a summit of the post-Coltrane generation, playing music that is astral in ambition and completely grounded in craft, the two qualities feeding each other across the full program. The alto-tenor exchanges between Bartz and Sanders alone justify the record - two very different temperaments finding common orbit - and the compositional sweep of the title suite does the rest, building and releasing across a whole side with total confidence. One of the key documents of late-sixties spiritual jazz before the term existed, from the label run that gave this generation room to think big.

US pressing, ready for the shelf that already knows, or the one about to find out.