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Court Is Closed

by Del Jones

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    This is the 23rd release in the deluxe Now-Again Reserve Edition, and the version available at Bandcamp includes a bonus third LP, with previously unissued rehearsal tapes and rare 7" single cuts by Del and his band. A detailed book is included with the album, and that book is included as a bonus, digital PDF.
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      $10 USD

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Triple album, with bonus 3rd LP available to Bandcamp purchasers, packaged in a gatefold sleeve w/ OBI and resealable plastic bag. Contains an oversized booklet that contains Del Jones' incredible story and the story behind these recordings, including many previously unpublished photographs.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Court Is Closed via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $60 USD or more 

     

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Underground Philadelphia’s response to Amiri Baraka’s and Gil Scott-Heron’s indictments of the Black American experience: poet, proto-rapper and catalyst Del Jones’ call to action not just for his city, but for the nation.

Equal parts psychedelic rock and deep funk, the rarely heard 'Court Is Closed' saw only the scantest of issues before Jones overdubbed horns on the album, remixed and augmented it with additional music, and issued it as the better-known 'Positive Vibes'. Here we present both versions of the album, with Bandcamp customers also receiving bonus LP containing Jones’ rare 7” single tracks and rehearsals, including unreleased tracks heard here for the first time.

Jones’ story, and that of his family, is like his music: a loud, vital voice long silenced. Understanding it now is not just a visceral musical experience, but an essential dissection of racism and classism in America.

A detailed book - included here as a bonus PDF - delves into Jones’ music, milieu and life as an author, activist and orator, shining a light not only on his prescient awareness of hip-hop, but also on the struggles he confronted, and his urgent, current mandate.

This is the 23rd release in the deluxe Now-Again Reserve Edition, formerly a subscription service, and now offered as a la carte issues, with bonus material on vinyl available for Bandcamp purchasers.

credits

released March 10, 2023

This anthology produced by Eothen Alapatt
Licensed by Wayman Jones
Liner notes by Jeremeigh A.M. Kergylle (fka Jeremy Cargill), with contributions and editing by Eothen Alapatt
Restoration and remastering by Jason Bitner
Tape restoration and transfers by Dan Johnson for Audio Archiving
Vinyl transfers by Ben Lowrie
Art direction by Errol Richardson

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Del Jones Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Del Jones' story is like his music: loud and vital, long silenced.

Understanding his story and music now is not just a visceral experience, but an essential one: a dissertation on racism and classism in America.

Funk was Del's foundation, the harder edges of rock, his band’s chisels, and his ferocious desire to be heard—the voice of the voiceless—his forge.
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