The Contemporary Jazz Quintet - Location (2018)

Following on from the welcome revival of Lyman Woodard’s classic ‘Saturday Night Special’ and drummer, Bert Myrick’s ‘Liv’n’Well’ – which features the epic ‘Scorpio’s Child’ – BBE Records continue to dig deeper into the vaults of Detroit’s Strata label. Working in conjunction with 180 Proof’s Amir Abdullah BBE are poised to unearth a steady fow of hard to fnd or previously unheard gems from the short-lived but consistently innovative community based initiative that was Strata. Next up on CD is the Contemporary Jazz Quartet (CJQ) who were recently described by Jazzwise magazine as “one of the best kept secrets in jazz”. That declaration arrived via a review of their one-and-only recording for Blue Note Records – ‘Introducing Kenny Cox and The Contemporary Jazz Quintet’ – an album that was recorded in 1968.