Dream Queen, by Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited

Dream Queen

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Now-Again Records’ officially-sanctioned Record Store Day 2022 Release. Reissue of the sought-after deep/spiritual jazz album – the first time it’s been pressed from the master tapes. All analog lacquer by Bernie Grundman.

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1.	Roll Your Own 06:05	buy track
2.	Dream Queen 11:06	buy track
3.	Priscilla 03:33	buy track
4.	Pearl (Among The Swine) 05:52	buy track
5.	In The Mouth Of The Beast 10:02	buy track

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Reissue of the sought-after deep/spiritual jazz album - the first time it’s been pressed from the master tapes. All analog lacquer by Bernie Grundman.

Spiritual Jazz meets spiritual yearning: pianist and songwriter Bobby Hamilton’s magnum opus, his secret, his raw love letter to the music that didn’t seem to love him back.

Bernie Grundman resequenced Bobby’s long lost master tape and lacquered this album in an all-analog transfer.

Extensive liner notes by Torii MacAdams tell Bobby’s story of battling for deep jazz in the paranoiac polyester-and-cocaine 1970s. He founded the band Anubis in Syracuse, New York, and they put out the single “Ecology” on Charles Bazen’s Salt City imprint (later reissued on Now-Again's Soul Cal anthology). Shortly after issuing that single, Bobby put together the Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited and recorded and issued Dream Queen in 1972.

The last clean copy Bobby Hamilton had, he sold to the musician Jamie XX in 2021 for a princely sum. Few originals will ever surface again – its original run of 500 units having disappeared into the ether decades ago. We hope music fans are ready to dream again.

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released June 17, 2022

Personnel:
Bobby Hamilton: Fender Rhodes, Percussion, Vocals; Pete Manning: Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass Percussion; Duane Walker: Congas, Percussion, Vocals; Drums, Vocals: Jason Jeffers; Mike Gipson (Brother Fundi): Electronics, Percussion, Musser Electric Vibraphone; Mike Spengler: Flugelhorn, Percussion, Trumpet; Abram Brown: Percussion, Tenor Saxophone.

Recorded at Dell Studios, Utica, N.Y., by Gene Rice in March, 1972. Originally issued on Alafia Enterprises ALP-372 in late 1972.

Original session produced, and all music written and arranged, by Bobby Hamilton. Produced for reissue by Eothen Alapatt.

Master tape resequencing, and all-analog lacquering from the original master tape, by Bernie Grundman. Master tape remediation and transfer by Dan Johnson. Liner notes by Torii MacAdams.

Original cover design by Susan Blake with a photo by Richard Lent. Reissue art direction by Errol Richardson.

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