Jack Sels - Minor Works (2018) lossless

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.

Tracklist:
01. Jack Sels - Spanish Lady
02. Jack Sels - Ginger
03. Jack Sels - Nick's Kick
04. Jack Sels - Dorian 0437
05. Jack Sels - La Campimania
06. Jack Sels - African Dance
07. Jack Sels - Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
08. Jack Sels - Blues For A Blonde
09. Jack Sels - Blue Triptichon
10. Jack Sels - Rain On The Grand'Place
11. Jack Sels - Night In Tunisia
12. Lucky Thompson & Jack Sels Sextet - Minor Works
13. Jack Sels - Tchak-Tchak
14. Jack Sels - Invitation
15. Saxorama & Jack Sels - Minor 5
16. Jack Sels - The Preacher
17. Jack Sels - Dong
18. Jack Sels - Gemini
19. Jack Sels - It Might As Well Be Spring
20. Jack Sels - Night In Tunisia (Live)
21. Jack Sels - Taking A Chance On Love (Live)
22. Jack Sels - Zonky (Live)
23. Jack Sels - Blue Monk (Live)
24. Jack Sels - Swingin' The Blues (Live)
25. Jack Sels - Walkin' (Live)
26. Jack Sels - Unknown Title (Live)
27. Jack Sels - Broadway (Live)