Minor works

27 Tracks 1 Disc

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1. Spanish lady
2. Ginger
3. Nick's kick
4. Dorian 0437
5. La Campimania
6. African dance
7. Softly as a morning sunrise
8. Blues for a blonde
9. Blue triptichon
10. Rain on the Grand Place
11. Night in Tunisia
12. Minor works
13. Tchak-tchak
14. Invitation
15. Minor 5
16. The preacher
17. Dong
18. Gemini
19. It might as well be spring
20. Night in Tunisia (live)
21. Taking a chance on love (live)
22. Zonky (live)
23. Blue Monk (live)
24. Swinging the blues (Live)
25. Walkin' (live)
26. Unknown title (live)
27. Broadway

Jack the hipster. A musician's musician. The white negro from the docks. Jack Sels has been given many nicknames throughout the years. The Antwerp saxophone player who died at the mere age of 48 in 1970, remains Belgium's most mythical jazz musician, both to those who knew him during his lifetime and those who only know him from the stories - and there are quite some stories to be told about Jack Sels. Throughout his career, he would play with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Lou Bennett and Lucky Thompson, but he remained virtually unknown outside Belgium due to his reluctance to leave Antwerp.

Almost fifty years after his death, Jack Sels remains Belgium's most intriguing jazz musician. Partly due to his limited discography, he is overlooked by a wider audience. Yet, his contribution to the development of the modern jazz scene in Belgium cannot be overestimated, and neither can his influence on his fellow musicians, to whom he was the embodiment of jazz. As vibraphone player Fats Sadi once said: 'I loved Jack. He had never studied music and didn't have the least bit of technique. But if Jack played, the gates of heaven opened. Jack was more jazz than jazz itself.'

'Minor Works' is a collection of rare, previously unreleased recordings paying homage to the life and jazz of the enigmatic musician.