Soul Jazz Records is issuing the debut 1976 album from the legendary Steve Reid. As a radical jazz artist, Reid played with an extraordinary group of artists ' including Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Fela Kuti, James Brown, and many more!
For Django, recorded for Pacific Jazz in 1964, has long been considered a classic by jazz guitarist Joe Pass. He pays tribute to Django Reinhardt without attempting to emulate him in any way. Rather, he honors him by using his own style.
Pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor, among the most important ones in the history of European jazz, was among the first Italian musicians to develop a "European" concept of jazz.
Stanley Turrentine's 1966 soul jazz classic finds a deep, bluesy groove that doesn't let up from start to finish. Joining him are trumpeter Blue Mitchell, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams, alto saxophonist James Spaulding, and drummer Mickey Roker.
"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos...Music is a language, you see, a universal language...What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth." -Sun R
