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LOW STOCK LEVEL
1-2 Weeks
01. BOBBY JACKSON - Paul's Ark
02. BOBBY JACKSON - Ya Kum Ba
03. BOBBY JACKSON - Bobby's Blues
04. BOBBY JACKSON - Understanding
05. BOBBY JACKSON - Peepin
06. BOBBY JACKSON - Fluck Flick
07. BOBBY JACKSON - Ebonite
ARTIST
TITLE
The Café Extra-Ordinaire Story
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
JMAN 035CD JMAN 035CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/20/2010

Jazzman Records reissues this private press jazz LP from Bobby Jackson. You won't find the name Bobby Jackson in the jazz books. Yet here is a remarkable man who did more than anyone to promote live jazz in his hometown of Minneapolis, risking everything to open a venue for jazz lovers and putting on such luminaries as Freddie Hubbard, Roland Kirk and Elvin Jones. In so doing, he rode the wave of financial insecurity, dealt with problems involving drugs, the law and the police, not to mention the issues and temperaments of the musicians themselves. Yet he still managed to keep things together enough to record a truly deep and inspired album with his band -- although it took another 8 years before it was finally released, albeit in minimal quantities and with zero distribution! And so, the seventh release in Jazzman's Holy Grail series tells the story of Bobby Jackson and his Café Extra-Ordinaire. The music is deep, modal and progressive jazz. The story is one of bearded, coffee-drinking jazz-heads, Elvin Jones shedding tears, silver foil backdrops, and Jazzman also reveals what happened when a young man named Prince ventured into the café one day with the intention to sit in on a jam session! The CD also contains a 12-page color booklet with previously-unpublished pictures provided by Bobby Jackson himself. Interviews with Jackson and his band help to make up the extensive liner notes, telling the engaging story of the Café Extra-Ordinaire and all who took part in it.