Asante (Blue Note Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP testing SW As the original sleeve notes

As the original sleeve notes stated

A collection of sonic mantras to live by

Montara is a feel-good album that found the vibraphonist conjuring up an intoxicating hybrid of Latin jazz and fusion grooves from the percolating rhythms of ‘La Malanga’

Backed by her superb trio

LP1 Side B

Asante (Blue Note Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP testing SW As the original sleeve notesPianist McCoy Tyner had been increasingly looking to Mother Africa for inspiration on his Blue Note recordings of the late 1960s on pieces like African Village and Message from the Nile. With his 1970 album Asante, Tyner brought those influences to the fore with a powerful set rooted in the swirling percussive rhythmic bed laid by drummer Billy Hart and percussionist Mtume. Bassist Buster Williams, guitarist Ted Dunbar, and alto saxophonist Andrew