Katanga! LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP 200topsellingUK2024 and 9-piece afro-jazz outfit Nubiyan

and 9-piece afro-jazz outfit Nubiyan Twist’s fresh spin on Donald Byrd’s Through The Noise (Chant 2)

Flow Stream Flow

the ensemble returns with a marvelous follow-up that highlights the improvisational strength of its members as well as their respective gifts as composers

Wilkerson takes his listeners to church on the irrepressible shouters “Dem Tambourines” and “Camp Meetin’

Nightingale

Katanga! LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP 200topsellingUK2024 and 9-piece afro-jazz outfit NubiyanWho 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