[Pre Order] Max Roach - Members, Don't Git Weary (2025 Pressing) - LP

Release Date: TBA Remastered in Mono from the Original Tapes by Bernie Grundman!180g Vinyl LP! Arc Records are overjoyed to reissue pioneering jazz drummer Max Roach's legendary 1968 album, Members, Don't Git Weary. This album marks the second installment in a series of special reissues from the storied Atlantic Jazz archives, personally curated by DJ and broadcaster Gilles Peterson. The LP is not only a personal all-time top ten for Peterson, but a hugely significant work in its own right from one of the true icons of modern jazz. Roach recorded the album during a deeply turbulent time in U.S. history, in the aftermath of the assassinations of U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. The record sees the bebop originator lean into the tumult, embracing a broiling churn of modal and post-bop sounds that prefigures the Afro-conscious spiritual jazz that would evolve further across the next decade.