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Black Saint and Soul Note Overview

Source: Burning Ambulance.

From the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, some of the greatest jazz on Earth was made in Italy. The Black Saint and Soul Note labels provided creative support and exposure to visionary artists who couldn’t get American labels to put their records out. Their collective catalog includes titles by Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, Max Roach, Cecil Taylor and many others, and has remained in print pretty much constantly for the last 40 years. A few years ago, they put together a series of budget-priced single-artist box sets, many of which I snapped up, and still pull off the shelf on a regular basis.