From The Other Side Jazz Band

LP version. From The Other Side is the only album Discogs lists for the From The Other Side Jazz Band, a thirteen-piece group of horns, strings, rhythm section and two vocalists, released by Soul Note in 1989. It is one of the least documented records in the label's catalogue of that period, and it is built as an ensemble record rather than a vehicle for one soloist. The material comes from inside the band, and the line-up sets a jazz horn section beside a violin and two singers.

The thirteen musicians form a small big band with voices. Pianist Michael Greenblatt is credited as composer of the music. Saxophonists Paula Gabriel (alto), Simon Sternberg (tenor and soprano) and Daniel Hoffman (baritone) sit alongside two trumpets and a trombone, and a rhythm section of guitar, bass and drums supports violinist Vanessa Gordon and the two singers, Tzipora Batyehuda and Shevachia Bat-Israel, and others. The seven pieces run from about five to twelve minutes. Sometime Soon, Universal Salvation Blues and the twelve-minute Devotion make up the first half, and Owed To A Jazz Man, Run To The Rock, Business As Usual and Saturday's Child follow. The titles point to the blues and to the language of gospel and devotion.

This LP is one of the original 1989 Soul Note pressings, catalogue SN 121 106-1, on 140-gram vinyl, which CAM Jazz says it rediscovered in its own vaults and now sells as the original edition.