A private press LP from early-eighties Youngstown, Ohio, featuring an absolutely killer Hammond B3 version of Chameleon, and an exceptionally funky The World Is A Ghetto, showcasing Lavorgna’s soulful saxophone, and more deep funk from David Thomas, on organ.

“An album of what one might consider Danish Spiritual Jazz, with songs inspired by and named for Pharaoh Sanders and Yusef Lateef” (Egon, Now Again).
“I’ve never come across an original of this Norwegian spiritual jazz masterpiece but happy enough with the reissue. They’ve put some work into it to make it sound and look good”
(Gerald Short, Jazzman).
“Killer spiritual jazz album from Denmark, superb repress” (Gilles Peterson, BBC Radio 6).

This quartet formed in 1969, and played for a while every Monday in the famous Jazzhouse Montmatre in Copenhagen. 
This is their sole record, released in 1970.


‘With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers — Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire — harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise’s unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise’s now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved.’

Still sealed.

Reaching solo-piano explorations in blues, jazz and classical music by the Free Jazz pioneer, in 1970; inspired by the revolutionary spirit of the times, and — opening with a dedication to Don Cherry — the New Thing.

A second set of piano improvisations, one year after the first, now more extended, percussive, insistent, and tumultuous; explicitly enraged by the recent murder of George Jackson by a San Quentin guard, and the massacre at Attica Prison.

‘There are relatively few places where members of the two great Arkestras — Ra’s and Tapscott’s — cross paths… As you might expect from such a line-up, Voyage From Jericho does not have a wasted note. Every light is most definitely on, the band are running hot, and the spirits are live in the set. Tyler’s compositions are ruggedly carved, heraldic and open; he leads on baritone, sculpting the songs, growling out blue-flamed multi-phonics, the flow in full spate. Boykins steps lightly with his familiar elasticity and glowing presence; Blythe and Cross duck and weave, and Reid clatters and baffles, following and leading, echoing and supporting, always right there in his sui genesis super-precision time-beyond-time. Top-tier fire music.’ (Francis Gooding, The Wire)

With Alice Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Gary Bartz, Ron Carter, Elvin Jones.

With Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones and Ron Carter in 1967. Arguably his greatest record as leader; a classic.

His 1963 recording with John Gilmore, Thad Jones, Frank Strozier, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, and co. Firing Trane-style modal jazz, a waltz, Night In Tunisia, brilliant soloing all round — it’s a classic.
‘Verve By Request.’