It was and probably remains so: Gerald Short, the man behind the label Jazzman Records digs so deeply into global record collections, cellars and archives more than almost anyone. Now there is the second edition of "Spiritual Jazz".
The subtitle "Esoteric, Modal and Deep Jazz from the undergound United States, 1960-1978" is saying even more about the content. There is experimental jazz piece of gold from the Eastern Bloc (Nicolai Gromin, Wroblewski Jazz Quintet Dusko Goykovic) which may well be classified as a music of resistance and opposition to the political restrictions of the people of Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Balkans on its own special way resisted. Findings from other parts of Europe from this period can be found on this compilation as well. So you can here from Finland Heikki and Pedro Iturralde Sarmanto from Spain to discover just how Barney Wilen from France. Short has here taken a subject that is still too little attention is paid. Here, musicians have used their art for free to define their idea of having their visions run free and defend against repression, war-mongering and bigotry with extravagant creativity. His revolutionary music from this period have not just the psychedelic rock music, incendiary brand. You can hear it go down a wild, multi-faceted jazz from the post-Coltrane era, the walls did. Modern, progressive jazz influences came here on the flamenco, Balkan folk and Latin.
Jazzman Records would not be what it is when you would not get the stories behind the music closer to even in the booklet, and most are found here-to-find tracks to date only on vinyl, which you could have then been limited and strictly controlled. Yes, this is rare, and for many over the entire length determined no less strenuous like a Coltrane-drive - but how do you know when exactly these plates, lit a true genius and beauty of the work only if you have the drive to grow.
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