Three and a half-plus years in development, the deluxe edition was a 6CD, 94-track edition that for the first time ever chronicled Jess entire career from his late-teens fronting the Mod-Soulof The Alan Bown during the late 60s to his long Island Records sojurn with Bronco, The Butts Band his first solo album recorded with Allen Toussaint and Chris Blackwell. That led to the Brit-Funk of The Jess Roden Band before his move to New York and further, highly acclaimed, solo recordings and into the 80 s by way of The Rivits and, post Island with the Seven Windowsand The Humans albums.
Containing well over 50 of previously unreleased material, the Anthology included never-before-heard demos, alternative mixes, long-thought-lost masters, completed but discarded tracks, alternate takes as well as a wealth of live recordings.
All of the selections were re-mastered in the UK and US from the original 1 4 , 1 or 2 analog tapes.
The 1st edition was limited to 950 hand-numbered copies and presented in a 12 hard-back, casebound book format in which the 32-page booklet contains the first interview Jess has given in 30 years discussing many of the song selections.
Will ship worldwide: Europe 15, USA 25. Thanks for looking
