{"title":"David Axelrod","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eDavid Axelrod came up in Los Angeles as a session musician before joining Capitol Records as a producer and A\u0026amp;R man in late 1963, where he quickly proved himself one of the most ambitious thinkers in the building. His production of Cannonball Adderley's \"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'\" in 1967 was a genuine crossover success, and his work with Lou Rawls generated a run of gold albums and R\u0026amp;B hits through the mid-decade. By 1968, Capitol gave him space to pursue his own records. The three solo albums that followed, \"Song of Innocence\" (1968), \"Songs of Experience\" (1969), and \"Earth Rot\" (1970), are the ones collectors come for: heavy-bottomed, baroque orchestrations built around booming drums and themes drawn from William Blake's poetry, environmental collapse, and Black consciousness. Axelrod worked with a core group of Los Angeles session players including Carol Kaye on bass and Earl Palmer on drums, and the results sit in a zone that jazz, soul, rock, and classical all touch without quite claiming. Obscure for most of the 1980s, his catalogue was systematically excavated by crate-digging producers in the 1990s. DJ Shadow, Dr. Dre, Madlib, and Lauryn Hill all drew from it. Original Capitol pressings of the solo albums are genuinely sought-after objects; the 2005 Capitol Jazz compilation \"The Edge\" remains the best single-volume introduction to his work.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"david-axelrod-messiah-2000-us-rca-lsp-4636-reissue-lp","title":"David Axelrod - Messiah (2000 US RCA LSP-4636 Reissue LP)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinyl\u003c\/b\u003e: NM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSleeve\u003c\/b\u003e: EX\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur grading system explained \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dpbg4u-d1.myshopify.com\/pages\/secondhand-grading-guide\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhoto is of the actual item.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Axelrod - \u003cem\u003eMessiah\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2000 RCA Reissue (LSP-4636, Rainbo Records pressing)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Axelrod spent the 1960s producing Cannonball Adderley and Lou Rawls for Capitol Records, building a reputation for orchestrated arrangements that refused to stay inside any single category. In 1968, Capitol gave him his own album projects, and he produced a run of records that took literary, religious and classical texts and ran them through a mixture of jazz, soul, psychedelic rock and orchestral writing. By 1971, working with producer Ronald Budnik at RCA, he turned to Handel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMessiah\u003c\/em\u003e — the full title is \u003cem\u003eDavid Axelrod's Rock Interpretation of Handel's Messiah\u003c\/em\u003e — draws nine movements from Handel's 1741 oratorio and rearranges them for a 38-piece orchestra. Electric instruments fill the role that organ and harpsichord play in Handel's original. Carol Kaye plays bass; Mike Deasy plays guitar. Vocal group The Dillons handle the choral parts. Cannonball Adderley, who had been conducting orchestral sessions with Axelrod for years, led the orchestra and appears briefly on the closing track \"Worthy Is the Lamb.\" Adderley at the same time was recording \u003cem\u003eBlack Messiah\u003c\/em\u003e, his own large-ensemble album, with Axelrod producing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sessions were recorded at RCA's Music Center of the World in Hollywood. This is the 2000 US reissue, mastered at Better Quality Sound and pressed at Rainbo Records.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RCA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43432441184315,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_6647.jpg?v=1776600454"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/david-axelrod.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}