Joki Freund Sextet's lyrics & chords

Tremendous early work from German saxophonist Joki Freund -- a player who would go onto much greater fame in the progressive years at the end of the 60s, but who already sounds plenty darn great on this early combo side from 1963! The style of the work is incredibly hip -- with a definite John Coltrane modal groove in place, but also a sense of globally conscious jazz that's very much in the spirit of classic Saba/MPS work, but which predates most of that by a number of years! Freund plays tenor and soprano sax here -- in a sextet with Wolfgang...read more