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Improvised Meditations and Excursions

Improvised Meditations & Excursions
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Studio album by John Lewis
Released 1959 (1959)
Recorded May 7-8, 1959
Genre Jazz
Label Atlantic Records
John Lewis chronology
European Windows
(1958)
Improvised Meditations & Excursions
(1959)
Odds Against Tomorrow (Soundtrack)
(1959)

Improvised Meditations & Excursions is a jazz recording by John Lewis as a solo artist, released in 1959.

This work represents Lewis away from his Modern Jazz Quartet mates. This LP on Atlantic SD-1313 (stereo) released in both mono and stereo pressings.

Informative liner notes by Horst Lippmann, a German jazz critic of the time, provide an additional notes and influences in Lewis' jazz work on this and some of his other releases.

On "Now's The Time", "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", "Delaunay's Dilemma", and "September Song":

On "Love Me", "Yesterdays", and "How Long Has This Been Going On":

All tracks engineered by Earle Brown and Frank Abbey.


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