Future Days Recordings, an imprint of archival label Light in the Attic, have announced the long-awaited reissue of Pete Jolly’s 1970 album, Seasons, on vinyl for the first time in over 50 years. Sampled by everyone from Jay Dee and Cypress Hill to Busta Rhymes, the album was a stylistic departure for Jolly, full of atmospheric grooves.
Produced by Herb Alpert (who originally released the album on his label A&M Records), Seasons also features significant session musicians, including the Wrecking Crew’s Chuck Berghofer and Milt Holland, plus Emil Richards, Paul Humphrey, and John Pisano.
Due out March 29th, 2024, Seasons has been remastered from its original analog tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at RTI on two special color variants: clear amber and clear light green. Rounding out the album are new liner notes by music journalist Dave Segal (The Stranger, Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard), who interviewed Alpert and Berghofer about their memories of Jolly.
Two-time Grammy-nominee Pete Jolly (1932 – 2004) was a virtuosic multi-instrumentalist whose work on the piano, organ, and accordion, in particular, could be heard on classic West Coast Jazz albums, as well as on countless TV and film scores–including M*A*S*H, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Clint Eastwood’s Charlie Parker biopic Bird, during which he faithfully recreated Bud Powell’s piano performances with the horn player.
Jolly wrote about the album for its original liner notes:
We literally improvised as we went along–using visual and musical communications between ourselves to let the tunes happen, breathe, and expand. It’s as simple as that. Then we edited down the four hours of tape, did a little overdubbing, and this album is the result.
Throughout the album, Jolly and his fellow musicians move between Jazz and Pop. While Seasons never had significant commercial success upon its release, it has since amassed a cult following. Out of print since 1971, it has only been reissued once on CD.
