Pre-order Mal/2, Eastern Sounds, Waltz For Debby, and Sunday At The Village Vanguard.Jade Waltz lives in Illinois with her husband, two sons, and her three crazy cats.

The Bay Area label was also home to the likes of Cal Tjader, Gerry Mulligan, and Vince Guaraldi. Fantasy also had its own place in jazz history, beginning in 1949 with its very first signing, Dave Brubeck. It was heralded by the news of reissues of Workin’ With The Miles Davis Quintet and Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane.įirst launched in 1982 under Fantasy Records, Original Jazz Classics served as a home for the label’s impressive jazz catalog – which had grown to include thousands of celebrated titles from Prestige, Galaxy, Milestone, Riverside, Debut, Contemporary, Jazzland, and Pablo. The new announcement follows the confirmation in February of the first two records to relaunch the Original Jazz Classics series.

The album is, aside from its title track, comprised entirely of popular material, from Leonard Bernstein’s “Some Other Time” to Miles Davis’ “Milestones.” Waltz For Debby, meanwhile, picks up where that album left off and features additional highlights from the band’s final performance, which spanned five sets over the afternoon and evening. Between the bassist’s highlights are crowd-pleasing standards, like Cole Porter’s “All Of You” and George Gershwin’s “My Man’s Gone Now.” Sunday At The Village Vanguard was intended to pay tribute to LaFaro’s talents, opening and closing with two of his own compositions (“Gloria’s Step” and “Jade Visions”), as well as showcasing his best solos. The performance was the group’s last together, with bassist Scott LaFaro tragically killed in a car accident days later. The records served as the trio’s final two albums together and were both captured live on Jat New York’s legendary Village Vanguard club. Waltz For Debby will be reissued on June 30, 2023, followed by Sunday At The Village Vanguard on August 25, 2023. Rounding out this batch of Original Jazz Classics reissues is a pair of albums from the Bill Evans Trio. Joined by pianist Barry Harris, drummer Lex Humphries, and bassist Ernie Farrow – who also played the Afghani lute-like instrument known as a rubab – Lateef filled Eastern Sounds with engaging originals like “Blues For The Orient” and “The Three Faces Of Belal.” Among them, the group also delivered inspired renditions of Hollywood classics, including “Love Theme From Spartacus” and “Love Theme From The Robe.” The 1961 album saw Lateef show off his versatile skills, performing on the tenor saxophone, oboe, flute, and a Chinese xun – or ancient globular flute. The record was the multi-instrumentalist’s 16th album and fused influences from Middle Eastern and Asian music with the popular hard-bop sounds of the day. Yusef Lateef’s Eastern Sounds will be reissued on September 29, 2023.

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