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Joe Lee Wilson
Livin’ High Off Nickels and Dimes

1. The Theme/Aquarian Melody
2. It’s You Or No One
3. Strollin’
4. Jazz Ain’t Nothin’ But Soul
5. God Bless The Child
6. You Make Me Want To Dance

Arranged by Joe Lee Wilson

The selections on this record are excerpted from a live radio concert on Columbia University’s WKCR.FM.NYC.
Recorded on July 16, 1972.

Joe Lee Wilson. Vocals
Ray McKinley. Piano
Bob Ralston. Tenor saxophone
Stafford James. Bass
Napoleon Revels. Drums
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Original LP credits and liner notes
Oblivion Records OD-5

Joe Lee Wilson
Livin’ High Off Nickels and Dimes

Joe Lee Wilson. Vocals, Ray McKinley. Piano, Bob Ralston. Tenor saxophone, Stafford James. Bass, Napoleon Revels. Drums

Produced by Fred Seibert

Production Consultant. Honest Tom Pomposello
Advice and Consent. Richard H. Pennington, Jr.
Engineering. Don Zimmerman
Editing. Fred Seibert
Rerecording. Bob Blank. 3.26.74
Mastering. John Bittner
Pressing. Wakefield Manufacturing

Cover design. Susan Rivoir
Graphics. the Oblivionettes
Photography. Bridget Deale, Fred Seibert, and Enea Cairati
Confucius, Nick Moy and Sherry Wolf*
*courtesy of Bonitza Melodies

Should this disk be unavailable at your local superior record store, send $5.98:

OBLIVION RECORDSs. incorporated
P.O. BOX X. ROSLYN HEIGHTS. N.Y. 11577

(P)© 1974, Oblivion Records. inc.
Printed in the USA
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Jazz is makin’ do with taters and grits
Standin’ up each time you get hit
Jazz ain’t nothin’ but soul.

Jazz is livin’ high off nickels and dimes
Tellin’ folks ‘bout what’s on your mind
Jazz, it ain’t nothin’ but soul.

Trumpets cussin’, saxophones, rhythm makin’ love,
Hustlers wearin’ fancy clothes
The voice of my people.

For me, it’s all the truth to be found
Never mind who’s puttin’ it down
Jazz ain’t nothin’ but soul.

© by Norman Mapp, Brian Music, BMI
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This recording of Joe Lee Wilson Plus Five (actually plus four here, due to a previous engagement on the part of percussionist Rashied Ali) grew out of a series of events comprising the first New York Musicians Jazz Festival. The Festival responded to the urgent need for presenting newer and more positive music and musicians in an organized context: a need which the Newport Jazz Festival in New York had largely failed to satisfy. To assist the New York musicians in their self-help effort, radio station WKCR-FM sponsored several live radio broadcasts; from one of those broadcast, these performances emerged.

The session took place on an extremely hot and sticky July evening, in a room that more resembled a steambox than a studio. But as you can hear, nothing – not even the sweltering heat – bothered Joe Lee Wilson and his group. Joe’s broadcast sparked a groundswell of calls and letters from astounded listeners – ample testimony, we think to the stature he has earned among knowing observers of new music.

Joe Lee Wilson truly represents an outstanding case of a musician whose original and considerable talents never found true recognition in more commericial media. In this respect, he is one among many. This recording attempts to support Joe and musicians like him in their efforts.

All praise is due to the Creator and the credit belongs to the musicians.

Ed Michael
WKCR.FM Columbia University
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I’m posting many of my out-of-print record productions from the 1970s. Travis Pomposello and I are the owners of these master recordings.