For those unaware, originally released in 1978 on Muse Records, Double Exposure is a rare and genre-blurring session that brings together two visionary musicians in a highly personal, exploratory setting.

Drummer-composer Joe Chambers — best known for his work with Wayne Shorter, Bobby Hutcherson, and Freddie Hubbard — is joined by Larry Young, a pioneering jazz organist whose modal and avant-garde leanings helped define Tony Williams’ Lifetime and Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew era.

Remastered & Cut AAA directly from the original analog tapes by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal Media and housed in Stoughton Old Style Tip-On Jackets. Including an insert with newly written liner notes by Bill Milkowski and Barney Fields with rare photographs by Jan Persson and Raymond Ross.

Double Exposure isn’t a conventional organ-and-drums record - it’s a deeply textural and often introspective album where post-bop, spiritual jazz, and early fusion sensibilities converge. Tracks like Mind Rain (later sampled by Nas for N.Y. State of Mind) showcase Chambers’ emotional range as a composer.

Larry Young’s organ and synthesizer work is atmospheric and searching, veering far from soul-jazz clichés into modal abstraction and cosmic drift.

It was re-released on vinyl back in January 2026 and remastered directly from the original analog tapes by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. The CD is packaged in a 4-panel digipak with 8-page booklet with newly written liner notes by Bill Milkowski and Barney Fields with rare photographs by Jan Persson and Raymond Ross.

1. Hello To the Wind
2. The Orge
3. Mind Rain
1. After The Rain
2. Message From Mars
3. Rock Pile

The American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer opens his historic recording on the veritably translucently glistening Hello To the Wind and the, to my mind at least, some Charlie Brown-esque notes wrapped within a formidably nuanced The Orge, before bringing us the heavily sampled, melodiously sculpted Mind Rain, an wholly engaging After The Rain, and the pulsatingly spirited Message From Mars, the set coming to a close on the stoically cultured, yet affectingly funk-grooved Rock Pile.

Joe Chambers has worked with some of the most influential jazz figures of the last several decades and is a recognized performer and composer whose works have been performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. As a sideman and leader, Chambers has recorded more than 500 albums. He has recorded with Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Andrew Hill and many more.

His recording credits include Hubbard’s Breaking Point, Joe Henderson’s Mode for Joe, Bobby Hutcherson’s Components, Wayne Shorter’s Schizophrenia and Etcetera, McCoy Tyner’s Tender Moments, Archie Shepp’s New Thing at Newport, Charles Mingus’ Like a Bird, Chick Corea’s Tones for Joan’s Bones, and many others.

Chambers’ compositions have been covered by Hutcherson, Hubbard and M’Boom; he has also contributed to soundtracks for several Spike Lee films, including Mo’ Better Blues. Chambers is the first Thomas S. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Jazz in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His most recent recording is Joe Chambers Dance Kobina, released in 2023 (UMG/Blue Note).

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