Nathan Davis
The Hip Walk
Villingen, 1965. Nathan Davis, the Kansas City tenor who had shared a Paris band with Eric Dolphy, records his second SABA album with a fellow Kansas Citian, Carmell Jones, just off Song for My Father, and the Clarke-Boland rhythm section: Francy Bol…
Happy Girl
Nathan Davis's first record as a leader, cut at the SABA studio in Villingen on 31 January 1965 with a twenty-year-old Woody Shaw on trumpet, Larry Young on piano rather than organ, Jimmy Woode on bass and Billy Brooks on drums. Tenor, soprano and fl…
Live in Paris – The ORTF Recordings 1966/67 (3LP)
A never-before released Nathan Davis 1966/67 live recordings. Official release with the full permission and cooperation of the Nathan Davis Estate & INA (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel). "Style is not a given. Not many musicians reach the level o…
Theme From Zoltan / Mister E
Another highly collectable Nathan Davis release on SABA, also recorded in 1965, ‘Happy Girl’ has remained unissued on vinyl since the 1960s. The date gathers together another top drawer line-up, with Woody Shaw on Trumpet and Larry Young, the Coltran…
Carmell's Black Forest Waltz / B's Blues
Nathan Davis recorded ‘The Hip Walk’ in 1965 alongside his school mate, trumpeter Carmell Jones (who a month later went on to record the Song for My Father album with Horace Silver). The quintet is backed by the tightest of rhythm sections: Francy Bo…
Rules Of Freedom
Exact LP repro edition A grey-area edition of the legendary 1967 modal masterwork by one of the greatest unsung jazz pioneers of the 20th century. A ture lost underground jazz classic from the late '60, filled with long, flowing tunes that have treme…