By All Means - Vinyl Takeoff and the production ideas

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An album that would remain in the upper echelon of Rolling Stone’s "best albums of all-time" lists for the next 50 years

Featuring tracks such as “6 ‘N The Morning” and “Squeeze The Trigger” the album is widely considered to have defined the gangsta rap genre

By All Means - Vinyl Takeoff and the production ideasPianist & composer Aaron Parks expands his trio with bassist Ben Street & drummer Billy Hart into a quartet with the addition of tenor saxophonist Ben Solomon to explore a new color palette on his luminous 3rd Blue Note album By All Means. Although Parks has made his band Little Big the center of his recorded output in recent years, he never stopped writing music that belonged to a different harmonic universe influenced by the likes of Wayne Shorter,