David Axelrod - Messiah (2000 US RCA LSP-4636 Reissue LP)

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David Axelrod - Messiah | Vinyl LP - 2000 RCA Reissue (LSP-4636, Rainbo Records pressing)

David 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.

Messiah — the full title is David Axelrod's Rock Interpretation of Handel's Messiah — 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 Black Messiah, his own large-ensemble album, with Axelrod producing.

The 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.