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Spiritual Jazz 3: Europe

Label: Jazzman Records

Format: CD

Genre: Jazz

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Esoteric, modal and deep jazz from the European underground, 1963-1972. At the end of the '50s, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue heralded the revelatory arrival of modal jazz. As the vibrations of these giant steps resonated across the world, European jazz musicians reassessed their bearings and began to steer a new course. Across the continent, they sent roots down into the rich soil of the European folk and Christian liturgical traditions, extended their music along ancient routes of communication and trade to the Middle East, and reached across the crumbling ramparts of the European empires to the music of Asia Africa and Latin America. The music collected here follows the richly tangled threads of meditative, modal and religious European jazz, picking up where Spiritual Jazz 2: Europe (JMAN 046CD/LP) left off, with volume 3 continuing our excavation of private releases, underrepresented artists and visionary one-offs that stud the European jazz landscape like standing stones. Just as it had waxed, so the cult of American jazz waned, and these recordings are the compelling documents of a musical world in imaginative transition and virtuoso transformation -- a second trail of determined footprints on the pathways of European jazz. Sublime choral jazz in an ecclesiastical setting, revolutionary sounds deep within the USSR, radical modal experiments inspired by excursions to the Asian continent and Latin America, advances in rhythm and sound where modern jazz combines with Balkan and Scandinavian folk traditions. This is Spiritual Jazz -- European style. All tracks fully licensed and digitally restored from the original master tapes. Includes a 16-page color CD booklet featuring comprehensive liner notes with individual notes on each track and original stories direct from the artists, as well as album cover scans and previously-unpublished photographs.
Details
Cat. number: JMAN 050CD
Year: 2012
Notes:
Modal, Esoteric And Ethereal Jazz From The European Underground 1963 - 1972.'

Track 1 - Copyright Control. Unknown recording date, unknown location. From an unmarked acetate in the archive of Jef Gilson.
Track 2 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1969 in Dússeldorf, Germany. From the LP 'Jazz Messe 66' Schwann AMS-Studio 600.
Track 3 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1967 in Denmark. From the LP 'The Mysterious Corona' Debut SDEB 150.
Track 4 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1972 in France. From the LP 'Chorus' Saravah 10030. Licensed courtesy of Editions Saravah.
Track 5 - Zoom Music (SABAM). Recorded 1970 at the GST-Studio, Ghent, Belgium. From the LP 'Babs Robert & the Love Planet' Alpha 7003.
Track 6 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1971 at Roger Arnhoff Sound Studio, Oslo, Norway. From the LP 'That's Why Vol. 2' Lu-Mi LU200/29.
Track 7 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1983 in Budapest, Hungary. From the LP 'Binder Quintet featuring John Tchicai' Krém SLPX 17759.
Track 8 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1967 in Moscow, Russia. From the LP 'The 4th Moscow Jazz Festival '67' Melodija 020983-4.
Track 9 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1966 in Cologne, Germany. From the LP 'Swinging Macedonia' Philips 843 942 PY. Licensed courtesy of Enja & Yellowbird Records.
Track 10 - Edition Modern. Recorded 1964 at the Walldorff Tonstudio, Frankfurt, Germany. From the LP 'Now Jazz Ramwong' CBS 62 398. ℗ 1980 L+R Records. L+R CD rerelease in 1993 as CDLR71001. Distributed by Bellaphon Records GmbH. Licensed courtesy of Bellaphon Records. ISRC-DE-R38-80-00172.
Track 11 - Aisha Music Company. Recorded November 1963 at the Walldorff Tonstudio, Frankfurt, Germany. From the LP 'Yogi Jazz' CBS 62 273. ℗ 1981 L+R Records. L+R CD rerelease in 2009 as CDLR710320. Distributed by Bellaphon Records GmbH. Licensed courtesy of Bellaphon Records. ISRC-DE-R38-81-00126.
Track 12 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1969 at Metronome Studio, Stockholm, Sweden. From the LP 'Jan Allan - 70' Four Leaf Clover FLC5035. Licensed courtesy of Phono Suecia.
Track 13 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1972 in Paris, France. From the LP 'Centre International de la Danse' C-I-D 103.
Track 14 - Copyright Control. Recorded 1970 at Studio Davout, Paris, France. From the LP 'Crowded with Loneliness' CBS S64267.
Track 15 - Dayvis Song. Recorded 1972 in Paris, France. From the 7" single 'Synchro Rythmic Ecclectic Language' Edition Dayvis-Song SR04.
Track 16 - Guard Music, BMI. Recorded 1972 in Zurich, Switzerland. From the LP 'Antithesis' Arre 1001.

Sound restoration at See Why Audio.

This compilation ℗ & © 2012 Jazzman Records Ltd.