Release Date: 21 April 2023
Label: Cadillac Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5020675000339
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
The Jazz Doctors or the Billy Bang Quartet toured Europe in the early 80s, featuring spiritual jazz pioneer saxophonist Frank Lowe and Vietnam vet turned free jazz violinist Billy Bang, the group recorded in 1983 and 1984 in London.
With legendary rhythm section Rafael Garrett and Dennis Charles, they recorded an album for Cadillac that fast became a sought after classic.
The '84 session, with the different but equally astonishing rhythm of Wilber Morris and Thurman Barker, never appeared. Studio problems led to half the album being rendered unusable. Here for the very first time is the music that remained, including a unique and astonishing suite composed by Billy Bang.
Newly remastered from the original tapes at Gearbox studio and including a previously unreleased session, and all on CD for the first time, with new sleeve notes and images by acclaimed author/photographer Val Wilmer.
Tracklisting
Albert Nicholas
Mike Westbrook
The Crane River Jazz Band
Bobby Wellins Quartet
Evan Parker Quartet
Dudu Pukwana & Bob Stuckey
Mike Osborne Trio, Harry Miller & Tony Levin
Harry Beckett
The Jazz Doctors
