“There’s been a slow but steady resurgence in the interest of the deep spiritual jazz sound of the 1960s and 1970s, as more and more record labels strive to find and reissue obscure private press and long out of print works to meet the insatiable tastes of record collectors and modern-day music historians. Labels like London’s Jazzman Records and Universal Sound imprints, the Parisian Heavenly Sweetness, and Porter Records based out of Wisconsin, USA have all recently put out compilations or completely remastered releases of long-lost (or highly sought after) records that remain relevant in a genre that often is deemed to have lost its way. ... Luckily, however, we have the man Black Classical on hand to shine a little light into that chest with this mammoth 12 hour selection of spiritual jazz music, curated from his collection and featuring an absolutely astounding number of artists and tracks from this most in-demand of sub-genres. …”
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