Spiritual Jazz Vol.10: Prestige auf CD

»Esoterischer, modaler und Deep Jazz von Prestige Records, 1961-73« - Die zehnte Ausgabe von Jazzmans »Spiritual Jazz«-Serie wirft einen genaueren Blick auf die Musik, die das Label Prestige Anfang der 1960er Jahre aufgenommen hat. Dies war die Zeit, als der modale Jazz-Sound, der von Miles und Coltrane entwickelt wurde, begann, durch den Jazz-Untergrund zu sickern.

In seiner Blütezeit war Prestige das einzige Jazz-Label, das Blue Note eine Kerze aufsetzen konnte. Prestige war immer schnell bei der Aufnahme neuer Künstler, und in den Jahren nach Art of Blue war das Label schnell dabei, einige der innovativsten frühen Entdecker des neuen Stils zu veröffentlichen. Mit afro-östlichen Visionen von Yusef Lateef und Ahmed Abdul-Malik, tiefen modalen Exkursionen von Mal Waldron und Walt Dickerson und essentiellen spirituellen Jazz-Grooves von Gary Bartz und Idris Muhammed dokumentiert »Spiritual Jazz Vol. 10« den Klang des modalen Jazz im Vollflug, unerschrocken und authentisch von den Pionieren!

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Esoteric, modal and deep jazz from Prestige Records, 1961-73' - The tenth edition of our Spiritual Jazz series takes a closer look at the music Prestige was recording at the start of the 1960s. This was the period when the modal jazz sound pioneered by Miles and Coltrane was starting to percolate through the jazz underground.

In its heyday, Prestige was the only jazz label that could hold a candle to Blue Note. Prestige was always quick off the mark to record new artists, and in the years after Kind of Blue the label was quick to release some of the most innovative early explorers of the new style.

Founded as New Jazz in 1949 by 20-year old jazz fan and entrepreneur Bob Weinstock, Prestige was the only other imprint besides Blue Note to capture the iconic jazz sounds of the 1950s, and like its rival it grew to be an icon itself.

If Blue Note documented the sound of hard bop in its most carefully crafted and beautifully presented form, the low-key, jam-session approach that Weinstock preferred meant that the music captured by Prestige has a tough, unfiltered energy that was a lot closer to way it was being played live, night after night, by New York's most prominent jazz musicians.

Featuring Afro-Eastern visions from Yusef Lateef and Ahmed Abdul-Malik, deep modal excursions from Mal Waldron and Walt Dickerson, and essential spiritual jazz grooves from Gary Bartz and Idris Muhammed, Spiritual Jazz vol. 10 documents the sound of modal jazz in full flight, unabashed and authentic from the pioneers!