Limited 180 gram audiophile vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Prelude To Heart Is A Lotus is a 1968 BBC Jazz in Britain recording now released for the first time. Pianist and composer Michael Garrick was 35 years old and together with close associates - saxophonist Don Rendell and trumpeter Ian Carr - was defining innovative new directions in British jazz. Prelude To Heart Is A Lotus is the precursor to the Argo Records Heart Is A Lotus studio album which was released two years later, and this remarkable music shines a new light on an extraordinary period of creativity in Garrick's long career.