Inventions & Dimensions LP fg_Catalog Number_S 45537 THE ATLANTIC SINGLES COLLECTION 1967-1970

THE ATLANTIC SINGLES COLLECTION 1967-1970 features singles which Franklin released during her first three years with Atlantic Records

We wanted to get away from the faster stuff

though sunny “Amplifier” should shame all the lightweight singer-songwriter types into pawning Lucille and patching things up with their fathers

from its “quick draw” cover art to the songs it contains—“Big Iron

the cathartic vocals

Inventions & Dimensions LP fg_Catalog Number_S 45537 THE ATLANTIC SINGLES COLLECTION 1967-1970For his third Blue Note album Inventions & Dimensions (1963), pianist Herbie Hancock began moving away from the modernist hard bop sound that defined his first two albums Takin' Off and My Point Of View. Inspired by explorers like Eric Dolphy and Tony Williams, Hancock went in search of greater musical freedom by composing a set of ingenious originals each with their own unique inner logic that did away with what he considered the established jazz