Nuages Young Afric Pepperbird was released on

Afric Pepperbird was released on New Year’s Day in 1971

Lovano and Motian had been intimate colleagues for many years with their most notable collaboration being the groundbreaking trio featuring Bill Frisell – the lineup released three albums on ECM

ESP-Disk’ will be reissuing some of his great early work that’s gone out of print:

His unmistakable

but retains its musical personality

Nuages Young Afric Pepperbird was released onThe music on this album is among the last recorded by the great Django Reinhardt. Soon after he cut these sessions, he unexpectedly died on May 16, 1953, at the age of 43. The quartet date was made by the French company Blue Star, but produced from the other side of the ocean by Norman Granz, who issued it in the United States on his Clef label. It was planned to be the start of an intense collaboration between Django and Granz which, unfortunately,