“STONE ALLIANCE” s/t LP PM orig jazz funk fusion ’76 NM in shrink SUPERB

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Artist:  STONE ALLIANCE

Title: “Stone Alliance” 

Label:  P.M. RECORDS (Woodcliff Lake, NJ).  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Labels are white with black text.  Catalog number is PMR-013. 

Year:  1976.

Personnel: 

Gene Perla – bass

Don Alias – percussion

Steve Grossman – saxophone.

Condition:

Vinyl:   NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Side One has a few very faint paper scuffs that do not affect playback.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Fidelity is superb.  Labels are flawless with no spindle trail marks or other issues. 

A stunningly beautiful NM disc, which is exactly the way you want this one to be. 

Jacket:   Jacket is EXCELLENT in original factory shrink wrap.  Flawless front and back panels.  Shrink wrap is sparkling clean and fully intact.  Excellent seams and corners except for a small worn spot at bottom right corner, and a clipped corner at top left to indicate the album was originally sold as a cutout/deleted item.  No writing, stickers, or other issues.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display. 

Track Listing:

Side One:

• Vaya Mulatto
• King Tut
• Duet 

Side Two:

• Sweetie-Pie
• Creepin’
• Samba de Negro

Review: 

“Stone Alliance's eponymous debut album begins with percussionist Don Alias and bassist Gene Perla setting the table with a subtle Afro-Cuban rhythm and then, before the album is even 90 seconds in, the rhythm catches fire and in comes saxophonist Steve Grossman with a torrential solo.  The power trio rarely lets up from there.  Whether it's the breakneck, white-flame burn on tracks like the aforementioned "Vaya Mulatto" or "Duet" or "Samba De Negro," Stone Alliance is like a sonic hurricane.  Yeah, it slows down for a hip rendering of Stevie Wonder's "Creepin'," but that's about the only breather you get.  "Sweetie Pie" -- probably the album's best known song, sampled for '90s rap group Original Flavor's "Blowin Up the Spot" -- might not feel like an assault, but the funk is so nasty it makes you scowl.  And then there's the album's highlight, "King Tut," a smoldering, deliberate, militant march with Alias and Grossman challenging each other to frenzy and Perla in the cut like a jazzy Bootsy Collins.  These three musicians had teamed up two years prior for Grossman's debut Some Shapes to Come.  That was a much more cohesive, ambitious album from an artistic standpoint.  This album is a looser, more rebellious effort and a must hear for '70s jazz fans.”

(courtesy Vincent Thomas, allmusic.com.)

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