Ahmed Abdul Malik - The Eastern Moods of Ahmed Abdul Malik [updated]

Ahmed Abdul Malik - The Eastern Moods of Ahmed Abdul Malik - Prestige PR 16003 - Blue Trident Label, Mono [updated version, additional digital sound processing and art restoration by JD]

Ahmed Abdul Malik - Bass (Side A) & Oud (Side B)
Bilal Abdurrahman - Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Korean Reed Flute (Side A) & Percussion (Side B)
William Henry Allen - Bass (Side B) & Percussion (Side A)

Recorded - June 13, 1963, Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Supervision- Ozzie Cadena
Recording - Rudy Van Gelder [RVG in deadwax]
Cover - [uncredited]

Released - February 1964?

Apologies (in advance) for the profanity but this side is a motherfucker..... I posted Ahmed Abdul Malik's Spellbound last year - and now here's 'The Eastern Moods of Ahmed Abdul Malik'!

This is one of my personal holy grails of jazz vinyl collecting- long sought after by collectors, it would be an understatement to say that this side is rare... In any event it's not a conventional jazz side either, but a riveting experiment in proto-world music c. 1963.