The Complete "Is" Sessions

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Release Date: 2002

Label: Blue Note

Recorded at Bell Sound, New York City on May 11, 12 and 13, 1969
Mastered at the Malcolm Addey Studio, New York City
Cover and liner photographs © Mosaic Images

Note: The alternate take of "Sundance" was transferred from an LP; no tape source could be found.

1-1, 1-3, 2-1, 2-3 were on the original "Is", released in 1969 on Solid State Records. 1-2, 1-4, 1-5 and 2-2, recorded at the same sessions, were released three years later as "Sundance" on Groove Merchant. The rest are alternate takes, never released before. Bennie Maupin was not credited on the original release of "Is".

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