GRAZ 1961 2LP fg_Catalog Number_3020675005 " “Higher Ground” Stage [2018]

"  “Higher Ground” Stage [2018] comes on the heels of Rip It Up[2017

Live at Red Rocks

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and 4 previously unissued demos

GRAZ 1961 2LP fg_Catalog Number_3020675005 " “Higher Ground” Stage [2018]Jimmy Giuffres early collaborations with pianist Paul Bley and bassist Steve Swallow resulted in music that was far more complex and experimental than jazz audiences of the time had come to expect. While Giuffre may not be a marquee name, he should certainly be credited as one of the innovators who helped redirect jazz into new forms of improvised activity beginning in the early 1960s. This performance, recorded on October 27, 1961 in Graz, Austria,