Katanga! LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP O&O3465 plus others

plus others

drummer Brian Blade

Alan Jackson

Word for Word

On this night the good doctor took the stage with an expanded line-up featuring Jonathan Kreisberg on guitar

Katanga! LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP O&O3465 plus othersWho are these guys? Thats the usual reaction of anyone fortunate enough to have come across this remarkable (and remarkably rare) session from 1963. The last of six albums saxophonist Curtis Amy recorded for Pacific Jazz in the early 1960s, Katanga! transcends not only the rest but plenty of other recorded jazz from that period as well. Trumpeter Dupree Boltons brilliant playing here is simply breath taking in one of his very few recorded appearances