Sal Nistico

The early-1960s group the Jazz Brothers featured trumpeter Chuck Mangione and pianist Gap Mangione in a quintet also including up-and-coming tenor Sal Nistico (shortly before he joined Woody Herman's Orchestra), bassist Steve Davis and drummer Roy McCurdy; lots of young talent in that band. Their second of three recordings (the first has yet to be reissued) has reappeared as this CD. Those only familiar with Chuck Mangione's later work will be surprised to hear him playing bop-oriented music and showing the strong influence of Dizzy Gillespie. Four standards (including "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" and "Just You, Just Me") alternate with an obscurity and three group originals. The music has spirit, even if it is a bit derivative and predictable.

Bent Jaedig - Live at Montmartre 1969: Bent Jaedig Was Here (2012) {Stunt STUCD13092}
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© 1969, 2012 Stunt Records / Sundance Music | STUCD13092
Jazz / Bop / Post Bop / Saxophone

Danish tenor sax-man Bent Jaedig left his mark while he was here. At his funeral in 2004, one speaker said, “He lived jazz, and he was a jazz musician with a capitol J so large, that it reaches the sky”. He was a sharp, modern jazz musician, and for long periods, his home and career were south of the Danish border. A true cosmopolitan and jazz nomad, from the mid-1950’s and on he played with the most important modern European jazz musicians and visiting American stars: Chet Baker, Benny Bailey, Lucky Thompson, Dusko Goykovich, Tete Monoliu, Don Byas, Bill Coleman, George Coleman, Carlos Ward, Mal Waldron, Philly Joe Jones and many, many more. He was offered Sal Nistico’s chair in Woody Herman’s orchestra but had to turn the offer down due to difficulties obtaining an American green card.

Throughout the 1970s, Chuck Mangione was a celebrity. His purposely lightweight music was melodic pop that was upbeat, optimistic, and sometimes uplifting…