· 2-CD LIMITED EDITION

· ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED

· NEWLY DISCOVERED PERFORMANCE

· INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

CELEBRATING THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF WOODY SHAW. “THE LAST GREAT TRUMPET INNOVATOR” NPR MUSIC."

Elemental Music presents a complete previously unissued quintet performance by the great Woody Shaw recorded live at the Foyer Stadttheater, in Basel, Switzerland, on January 16, 1980. This outstanding concert features Shaw in the company of saxophonist Carter Jefferson, pianist Larry Willis, bassist Stafford James, and drumer Victor Lewis. This set contains a 16-page booklet with rare photographs, and special essays by famed jazz producer Michael Cuscuna and by Shaw's son Woody Shaw III. It also includes as a bonus an also previously unissued version of "We'll Be Together Again", taped in Austria in 1981, and which presents Shaw as the only horn in a quartet format

PERSONNEL:

• WOODY SHAW, trumpet, flugelhorn
• CARTER JEFFERSON, tenor & soprano sax
• LARRY WILLIS, piano
• STAFFORD JAMES, bass
• VICTOR LEWIS, drums

Recorded live at Foyer Stadttheater, Basel, Switzerland, January 16, 1980.

• (*) BONUS TRACK:
• Woody Shaw (tp), Mulgrew Miller (p),
• Stafford James (b), Tony Reedus (d).
• Recorded live in Lustenau, Austria, June 20, 1981.

CD 1: TOTAL TIME 63:57 Min:

• 01 INVITATION
• 02 SEVENTH AVENUE
• 03 IN YOUR OWN SWEET WAY
• 04 STEPPING STONE

CD 2: TOTAL TIME: 61:47 Min.:

• 01 LOVE DANCE
• 02 ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT
• 03 TEOTIHUACAN
• 04 THEME FOR MAXINE
• 05 WE’LL BE TOGETHER AGAIN (*)