SPIRITUAL JAZZ 5 - THE WORLD

Spiritual Jazz 5: The World

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In the shops early September - on our website late August!

Until it was swept aside by the pop explosion of the 1960s, jazz was the most popular modern sound on earth. From the New World and the Caribbean to Africa, across the Soviet Bloc and the British Empire to the Far East, jazz music was embraced, adopted, played and enjoyed. Having examined spiritual jazz as it was expressed in the US, and followed its messengers and influences in Europe, this fifth installment of our Spiritual Jazz series presents jazz from the rest of the world: a collection of jazz messages hailing from the four corners of the world that are united in their diverse treatment of the jazz idiom.

Jazz might have been the music of America, but in its beginnings it was not a purely American creation. The long story of its development stretches across the Atlantic, from Africa to the crucibles of slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas, both North and South. It was a music that ultimately emerged from the varied and resilient cultural achievements of Africans brought to the New World in bondage, and who brought with them a multiplicity of musical traditions. Evolution and development continued and, like a dandelion dispersing its airborne seeds via the wind, the sounds of jazz were carried around the world on the airwaves, record sales and by travelling musicians. In whichever continent the form took root, the individual, ethnic and cultural circumstances of the musicians decided the flavours and nuances of the jazz they created.

This volume of Spiritual Jazz presents some of the rarest and most extraordinary global jazz recordings. We have covered some of the wider world’s best known yet still underexposed jazz scenes – places such as Argentina and South Africa, as well as some of the world’s most obscure. There are recordings here made for major labels, and recordings issued privately. Very few of them have seen any release outside of their country of original prior to this collection. But all of them speak of a period when jazz was a global musical lingua franca, spoken with ease by musicians who headed out into the night to produce their own distinctly local translations.

This is esoteric jazz, modal jazz, spiritual jazz – as played by musicians from around the World.

·         All tracks fully licensed and digitally restored from the original master tapes

·         Comprehensive liner notes with added individual notes on each track and original stories direct from the musicians involvedA

·         CD with 16 page colour booklet with in-depth liner notes, album cover scans and previously unpublished photographs

·         Most tracks never before reissued – previously only available on rare LPs that change hands for hundreds of pounds!

·         Deluxe double vinyl LP pressing with thick, embossed gatefold sleeve

·         Only on Jazzman – all because WE DIG DEEPER!

Charlie Munro Quartet	Islamic Suite (edit)	Australia
Louiz Banks	Song for my Lady	India
Oladepo Ogomodede	Take Five	Jamaica
Jazz Work Shop	Mezare Israel	Israel
Jazz Semai	Koy Yolu	Turkey
Jorge Lopez Ruiz	Vicky	Argentina
Chivo Borraro	Half and Half	Argentina
Hideo Shiraki	Fiesta	Japan
Virgilio Armas Y Su Cuarteto	Sobre el Orinoco	Venezuela
London Experimental Jazz Quartet	Destroy the Nihilist Picnic	Canada
Ahmadu Jarr	Kathung Gbeng	Sierra Leone
The Braz Gonsalves 7	Raga Rock	India
Fitz Gore	Gisela (Lion Rock)	Jamaica
Eric Nomvete's Big Five	Pondo Blues	South Africa
Paul Winter Sextet	Winters Song	Brasil
Tete Mbambisa	Trane Ride	South Africa
Aquila	Um Allah	Chile