Released: 15/03/24
David Lee Jr.’s Evolution (1974) is a rare and radical deep jazz masterpiece blending New Orleans parade rhythms with the spiritual experimentalism of John Coltrane and Sun Ra. Pressed in just 400 copies on Lee’s own Supernal Records, the album showcases his fiery, avant-garde drumming and compositional vision. Rooted in New Orleans but steeped in Afro-Futurist ideals, Evolution stands as one of the most groundbreaking and elusive spiritual jazz albums of its era.