{"product_id":"david-wertman-kara-suite-2023-reissue","title":"DAVID WERTMAN - Kara Suite (2023 Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs one of the three inaugural 1976 releases to ignite the mythical \u003cstrong\u003eMustevic Music\u003c\/strong\u003e catalogue, \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Wertman\u003c\/strong\u003e’s elusive ‘\u003cem\u003eKara Suite\u003c\/em\u003e’ LP was the first record to turn jazz drummer Steve Reid’s vanity imprint into an bona fide cooperative record label with a multi-artist repertoire. Entrusting his own bass player with the limelight, Reid’s unlikely A\u0026amp;R decision would typify his oblique strategies and challenge the common perception of a soloist within jazz’s shifting landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing few comparisons amongst independent label releases of the time, save for rare standalone LP by \u003cstrong\u003eRonnie Boykins\u003c\/strong\u003e (ESP 1975) and cellist \u003cstrong\u003eAbdul Wadoud\u003c\/strong\u003e (Bisharra 1978), Wertman’s only solo album (preceding his work with Sun Ensemble and The New Life Trio) combined frenetic bow work, intricate spiritual exchanges and raucous rock solid cyclic riffage to underpin his own compositional complexities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProviding a platform for first-time players like \u003cstrong\u003eRichard Schatzberg\u003c\/strong\u003e (French horn) and future avant jazz punk participant \u003cstrong\u003eKen Simon\u003c\/strong\u003e (tenor \/ soprano sax) ‘\u003cem\u003eKara Suite\u003c\/em\u003e’ provides an early indication of Wertman’s multilayered and non-conformist blueprint from which the hallowed New Life Trio would eventually illuminate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album’s off-kilter commitment is further cemented by the inclusion of worldly free jazz luminary Charles Tyler (alto sax) and the naturalistic back- beat of Steve Reid himself to complete the dream team - albeit a sleepless one, on account of this one-off quintet’s wide-eyed innovation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented in four parts, ‘\u003cem\u003eKara Suite\u003c\/em\u003e’ documents Wertman’s very first musical directorial commitment to vinyl, preceded only by guest appearances, months earlier, on Steve Reid’s classic ‘\u003cem\u003eRhythmatism\u003c\/em\u003e’ and the ultra-rare ‘\u003cem\u003eThe Universal Jazz Symphonette\u003c\/em\u003e’ LP which chronicles Wertman’s deep-end New York baptism alongside Billy Bang and Earl Freeman before his relocation to Northampton forged this unique and oblique chapter in America’s independent jazz narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs one of the final pages to be turned in the Mustevic reappraisal legacy, this album perhaps remains the best kept secret for aficionados who actively choose to blur the lines between spiritual jazz and free jazz with no discrimination against art rock and the genre that might soon be christened punk (but not as we know it).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally resurrected via the \u003cstrong\u003eFinders Keepers\u003c\/strong\u003e \/ \u003cstrong\u003eEarly Future\u003c\/strong\u003e unison, complete with full cooperation and sleeve note narration by David’s partner Lynne Meryl, it might come as little surprise that amongst these pillars of alternative, privately pressed jazz is a story that also intertwines names such as Alice Cooper, Archie Shepp, KISS and DJ Shadow and many mutating musical genres that have made this music so hard to pin down over the subsequent five decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented on black wax with illustrated insert.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finders Keepers","offers":[{"title":"LP - Vinyl","offer_id":47168914587993,"sku":"SDZ-08641","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/David_Wertman_-Kara_Suite_-_2023.jpg?v=1695741640","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/david-wertman-kara-suite-2023-reissue","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}