Greetings folks,
Hope you're all doing okay. Here in Amsterdam it was 20°C and gloriously sunny earlier in the week, and there's snow forecast for tomorrow. Good old April, eh?
Two weeks previous, we left the frisb in the hands of @wojsvenwoj, and here's what he has to say by way of introduction to tonight's pick...
"I don't know much about jazz. I've heard the classics and have picked up on things i like and don't care for as much. Unsurprisingly, i veer towards the weirder stuff. Even so, I still don't know much about all that there is to learn and explore in that genre. So I was a bit surprised to learn that the artist who released this record was well known, influential, and involved with some of the bigger names of the big band era.
I had come across her via a mixtape that included the final song on this record. It's a soulful, religious barnstormer of a celebration that caught my ear, perhaps because it was kind of unjazzy, and resulted in an album purchase (it was a bit hard to find but eventually found it digitally). The rest of the record is a mixture of some really nice combo work and a few other idiosyncratic pieces, including a really striking opening number which is just as unjazzy as the closer but in a completely different way.
Anyway, enough clues. This is a re-issue so includes a few extra tracks bringing its length a little above the optimum but hey! It's Sunday and you have nothing else to do!
P.S. I was not thinking about Easter when making this selection - it's been in the back of my head as a Listening Club pick for a while now - but it's apropos. Everybody clap your hands!"
Okaydoke. Direct download's here, stream's below.
See you at 8pm BST (GMT+1)
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