Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye (1967 Japanese-distributed US Blue Note BST 84219 LP)

Vinyl: VG+
Sleeve: VG+
Obi: None

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Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye | Vinyl LP - 1967 US Blue Note (BST 84219, Liberty Records label, Japanese distribution via Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd.)

This is the original US Liberty-era pressing of The All Seeing Eye, distributed in Japan through Toshiba Musical Industries with a Japanese obi and insert. The blue/white label carries the "A Division of Liberty Records, Inc." identifier, dating it to the period after Liberty acquired Blue Note in 1966. Alfred Lion produced the original October 1965 session; Rudy Van Gelder engineered; Reid Miles designed the cover; Francis Wolff photographed it. Nat Hentoff wrote the liner notes from an extended interview with Shorter.

The album is five pieces and was planned as a suite rather than a collection of separate tracks. Shorter told Hentoff what each piece meant: "The All Seeing Eye" is about creation and God's role in it; "Genesis" starts in free tempo and moves into 4/4 as the world settles; "Chaos" is war and human misunderstanding; "Face of the Deep" is a minor-key ballad meant to be hopeful, God looking at what has been made; "Mephistopheles" — written by Alan Shorter, who plays flugelhorn on it — closes the suite with the demonic counterweight. The ensemble Shorter assembled was a septet: Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Grachan Moncur III on trombone, James Spaulding on alto saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Joe Chambers on drums. Shorter was a year into the Miles Davis Quintet when this was recorded, and the space that quintet opened up is audible in every bar.