Esa Pethman

• LIMITED 7 INCH EDITION

We Jazz Records kicks off their new series of archival 7" releases with Esa Pethman In Belgium 1967. The two-tracker is licensed from the Belgian VRT radio archives and both of the pieces are previously unreleased. Finnish jazz legend Pethman, heard here on alto flute and tenor sax, joins forces with European jazz greats such as Heinz Bigler, Uffe Karskov and Jean Fanis.

This is a small but valuable piece of unheard European jazz history from the early heyday of modern jazz. The physical release is a quality "inside-out"-styled EP with 3mm spine and small center hole on the 45rpm vinyl.

PERSONNEL:

• Heinz Bigler - (alto sax)
• Francesco Santucci - (trumpet)
• Uffe Karskov - (baritone sax)
• Esa Pethman - (tenor sax)
• Jean Fanis - (piano)
• Roger Vanhaverbeke - (bass)
• Al Jones - (drums)

Recorded at the Decca studios in Brussels, Belgium, 15 December 1967

TRACKS:

• SIDE A: The Flame

• SIDE B: Like Steel