Katanga! LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP 200topsellingUK2024 and the Turtle Island String

and the Turtle Island String Quartet

Herschel Boone

which reconvenes the same remarkable band featuring pianist Jason Moran

Nightingale

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

Katanga! LP (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP 200topsellingUK2024 and the Turtle Island StringWho 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