Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album

Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album
Studio album by Hasaan Ibn Ali
Released	April 23, 2021
Recorded	August 23, September 7, 1965
Studio	Atlantic Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Label	Omnivore

Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album is an album by Hasaan Ibn Ali. His quartet recorded the material on it in 1965 for Atlantic Records, which chose not to release it after he was imprisoned for drugs possession. The master tapes were destroyed in a fire in 1978, and by the time of Ibn Ali's death two years later, his only released recording remained The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan from 1964.

A tape copy of the 1965 sessions was long-rumored to exist and was located in 2017. This led to the release of the surviving material by Omnivore Recordings in 2021.