LIGHTMEN, THE - FREE AS YOU WANNA BE Vinyl 2xLP THE SMITHS an album that allowed him

an album that allowed him to reinvent himself and start writing a separate chapter in his exciting career

Four singles were released from the album

Waldron's "Velvet Scene" inspires one of Coltrane's most poignant ballad performances

while simultaneously racing towards the future head on

in order for an artist to survive some kind of change

LIGHTMEN, THE - FREE AS YOU WANNA BE Vinyl 2xLP THE SMITHS an album that allowed him"Drummer, bandleader and activist Bubbha Thomas had toured America with R&B revues, served as a session musician for Peacock and Back Beat Records, and played straight ahead jazz with legends before the political and social upheaval of the late 1960s led him to a path first charted by Coltrane. Free As You Wanna Be predates the deep set, maverick jazz issued by the likes of Tribe and Strata East and is a harbinger of best of the 1970s jazz