*Warehouse find* After the convincing performance at the fifth Jazz Festival di Sanremo 1960, Basso and Valdambrini realized for Jolly the third album, adding to the original formation of the quintet that has recorded the album LPM 2079, the promising trombonist Dino Piana. Also included you will find a track of Valdambrini and Basso dedicated to Turin, in perfect California style: the folk song “Ciao Turin”.
Original 1971 Italian edition on BYG Records' "Actuel" series of the 1969 album featuring Alan Silva, Clifford Thornton, Sunny Murray, Archie Shepp and Grachan Moncur III.
1974 US re-issue on Impulse!/ABC of the 1971 double-album with a 1965 live recording featuring Pharoah Sanders, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner. With original innersleeve.
Original Japanese edition on Atlantic of the 1970 compilation (edited by Ilhan Mimaroglu) with previously unreleased recordings by The John Coltrane Quartet, The John Coltrane Sextet and The Milt Jackson - John Coltrane Group.
*2026 repress!!!* What an unbelievable record. From the wild cover to the iconic breakbeats, Roots from Ian Carr’s Nucleus is one of the dopest albums we know. This is seriously thick, funky-prog jazz-rock heaven. Originally released on Vertigo in 1973, other than a couple of versions at the time for other territories, Roots was never re-pressed since so it’s gone on to become another one of those impossible to find records. Maybe it was a little too out there for the time, but it’s aged very, v…