{"product_id":"chico-freeman-tradition-in-transition-1982-japanese-elektra-musician-vinyl-lp","title":"Chico Freeman - Tradition in Transition (1982 Japanese Elektra Musician Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChico Freeman - \u003cem\u003eTradition in Transition\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1982 Japanese Elektra Musician (P-11249, Warner-Pioneer Corporation)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1982 Chico Freeman had been recording prolifically since his 1976 debut, moving across India Navigation, Black Saint and Contemporary in a run of albums that traced the post-Coltrane avant-garde from Chicago to New York. \"Tradition in Transition\" was his Elektra Musician debut and his most accessible major-label statement, not because it softened anything but because Freeman was willing to let the tradition into the room alongside the experiment. \"Jackie-Ing\" opens on Monk's angular melodic logic; \"Mys-Story\" and \"The Trespasser\" push further out; the closing \"A Prayer\" and the brief interlude \"At A Glance\" demonstrate a compositional range that short-form jazz often doesn't allow. DeJohnette's doubling on piano and drums across different tracks gives the session an unusual textural flexibility, and McBee's bass is the constant, grounding a band that could otherwise tip toward abstraction. The record appeared the same year Freeman participated in the Young Lions concert at Lincoln Center alongside Wynton Marsalis and Paquito D'Rivera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced by Freeman and John Koenig, recorded at Eurosound in New York, mastered by Bernie Grundman, this is the 1982 Japanese Elektra Musician pressing manufactured by Warner-Pioneer Corporation. The catalogue number P-11249 appears on the label.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elektra Musician","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43864012423227,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_7932.jpg?v=1785016349","url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/products\/chico-freeman-tradition-in-transition-1982-japanese-elektra-musician-vinyl-lp","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}