This autumn Ray Charles would have been 90 and to mark the date Tangerine Records are releasing a new box set titled True Genius, out on 10 September. Comprised of six discs the collection includes recordings from an unreleased 1972 Stockholm concert. Check the tracks streaming so far ahead of release, above. Pick your jaw up off the floor time. Again!
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Going trad on Albert’s Blues & The 44 Gerrard Street Session in September London jazz indie Cadillac are bringing out a lively reissue of traditional jazz by the iconic New Orleans clarinettist and vocalist Albert Nicholas (1900-1973).
Cadillac note that besides additional unheard Brussels tracks on the release there is unissued material included that has Nicholas and the English jazz trumpet icon Humphrey Lyttelton with his band drawn from an acetate recorded at the Richardson's Rehearsal Rooms on Gerrard Street made on 4 January, 1956.
Gerrard Street, in Chinatown, close to Leicester Square and hard by the Charing Cross Road, as a location is important in UK jazz history because on the same street three years later Ronnie Scott's opened its doors for the first time before later decamping to Frith Street a short walk away beyond Shaftesbury Avenue and into Soho itself.