As anyone who regularly visits this space knows, I’m a huge fan of the music created by the LA jazz musicians John Carter and Bobby Bradford, whether together or on their own. In the summer of 2013 the great Chicago reissue label International Phonograph put the classic 1969 Flying Dutchman release Flight for Four (performed by a quartet led by Carter and Bradford) back into circulation, featuring a beautiful restoration of the original artwork within a lovely cardboard package. But most of that particular release had been previously issued on a CD (as was another album reissued by International Phonograph, by fellow LA titan Horace Tapscott). The second album Carter and Bradford made for Bob Thiele’s label, however, has never been available on disc—until now.
Today’s playlist:
