Katanga! LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP RS_Just_Added Gabor Szabo

Gabor Szabo

due for release on March 4 2022 via Soulwax’s iconic label DEEWEE

the tense and the meditative

the film stars Zhang Ziyi and Ken Watanabe amongst others

A white ship sailing in a sea of blackness

Katanga! LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP RS_Just_Added Gabor SzaboWho 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