Morris Nanton - Preface

Morris Nanton Trio - Preface - Prestige PR 7345 - Original Prestige pressing, Mono, Blue Label, Bergenfield, NJ address

Morris Nanton - Piano
Norman Edge - Bass
Oliver Jackson - Drums

Recorded - ? [no date listed on sleeve, but according to major Prestige discographies - August 14 & September 3, 1964 - Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ]

Produced by Cal Lampley
Recording - Rudy Van Gelder
Cover Design /Liner Photo - Don Schliten

Released - February 13, 1965

Here's another great discovery and Prestige piano side rarity - Morris Nanton's Preface! Dusty Groove once called Nanton one of the most obscure players ever to record for Prestige in the 60s (perhaps not? Try Eddie Bonnemere or Gildo Mahones ), but he was quite an accomplished pianist who had a nice sense of the soul jazz groove. I really like Nanton's playing which is very wide open, leaving a lot of space, block chords - very refreshing and reflective approach to add to the soul jazz canon. This is the first of her three sides on Prestige, and it achieved some moderate degree of radio air play when it was first released in 1965, and even received some foreign (German) pressings. A perhaps apocryphal story relates that B1, 'Ja Da' was even heard in outer space during one of the Apollo missions! Nice fidelity off the original mono Prestige vinyl.

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