LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

SINGLE CD Unable to release this as a double CD with its companion Alleycatas previously advertised (due to contractual problems), not to be deterred, BGO are now planning to release both LPs as single CDs, starting with this oneOriginally released in 1977, this album is now being released by BGO as a single CD with the express wish by Ian that we do soFull sleevenotes by noted author and broadcaster Alyn Shipton, who is also Ians biographerAppearing on the albums alongside Ian Carr are Brian Smith, Geoff Castle, Bill Kristian, Rogers Sellars & Alf DoddTrumpeter, composer, author, educator and broadcaster Ian Carr is a major force in British jazz and since 1970 has been one of Europes leading musicians. In 1969 he formed Nucleus, one of the earliest pioneers of electronic jazz-rock fusion, and their early albums had a wide seminal influence in Europe. Nucleus won first prize at the 1970 Montreaux International Jazz Festival and appeared that summer at the USA Newport Festival and the Village Gate, New York. In 1982, Ian received the Calabria (Southern Italy) award for outstanding contribution in the field of jazz, and in 1987 he was given Wiremagazines special award for services to British Jazz. In recent years, Ian has become almost as well known as an author; his 1982 book on Miles Davis remains the standard biography. He is now an associate Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he gives weekly lectures on jazz history track listing: Gestalt - Mysteries - Heyday - In Flagrante Delicto