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Retrospect philly3/12/2023 Alan Sukoenig and saxophonist David Shrier were students at the University of Pennsylvania in 1962, when Shrier told Sukoenig about this amazing pianist he had just heard a club. This one, being unreleased until now, has a story too. The only other recording is Atlantic’s 1965 The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan, which stunned the jazz world and led to the aforementioned lost album referenced above. This makes only the third recording of the pianist described by local saxophone legend Odean Pope as “the most advanced player ever to develop in Philadelphia.” Hasaan had practiced intensively with John Coltrane in the early ‘50s and is thought by Pope and others to have been the influence behind Coltrane’s so-called sheets of sound as well as the harmonic approach that underlay Coltrane’s breakthrough Giant Steps, and, with Earl Bostic, one of the two role models behind Coltrane’s strict work ethic. As with most of their releases of this type, the enclosed booklet is rich with essays and photographs – essays by Sukoenig, Porter, and pianist Matthew Shipp and unseen photographs from Sukoenig. Now the same team that delivered that release – Alan Sukoenig, Lewis Porter, and Grammy winners producer Cheryl Pawelski and engineer Michael Graves have issued a 2-CD, 21-track collection of originals and standards from the pianist entitled Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings via Omnivore Recordings. That was the acclaimed quartet album Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album. We wrote about the legendary Philadelphia pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali on these pages last March, covering one of the most important never-released-until-now albums of this year 2021 which is stock full of them.
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