Thursday, April 2, 2020

Discovery: The Nathan Davis Quartet, Live in a Swiss Monastery

In a post I did last year discussing the trumpeter Dusko Goykovich, I said that the saxophonist Nathan Davis was "seriously underrated." Because most of his recordings were made in Europe in the Sixties and Seventies, he never got much acclaim in the U.S. They're either available in vinyl only or in very pricey used CDs. Yesterday, someone posted Jazz Concert in a benedictine  Monastery, a rather obscure LP on the Edici label, on YouTube. I clicked on it and was totally blown away. Davis plays wonderfully on tenor, soprano, and flute, accompanied by the always interesting Mal Waldron on piano, Jimmy Woode on bass, and Art Taylor on drums. I didn't want to waste any time drawing it to your attention, so here it is. Enjoy!




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