Bobby Watson - Perpetual Groove (2025 Remastered) (1983) [Hi-Res]

This is an important record because it vividly and effectively captures a specific moment in the history of jazz. We are at the beginning of the 80s; jazz is experiencing new transformations; a fluid period in which not only its expressive intentions but also its audience are changing. The rhythmic intensity that pervades the entire album certainly evokes the spasmodic struggle for life of bebop, but also of a much more contemporary world. And then, most important, there is the embrace with the European musical spirit. “Perpetual Groove” remains unique in its surprising freshness. Something that is good to know exists and smacks of resistant revolutionarity. (Claudio Sessa, liner notes)

Bobby Watson, alto sax
Piero Bassini, piano
Attilio Zanchi, bass
Giampiero Prina, drums