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WERTMAN,DAVID & SUN ENSEMBLE – WIDE EYE CULTURE (DELUXE) - LP •

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WERTMAN,DAVID & SUN ENSEMBLE – WIDE EYE CULTURE (DELUXE) - LP •UPC: 195081075921 Label: BBE MUSIC Format: LP Release Date: March 18, 2022 In stock items ship within 48 hours Tracklist Forest Dance Camel Flute Song New Earth Sing My Love Song Dance Of The Mid East Madness Summer Heat How Come? Political Science Up In The Sky Sci Fi Fantasy Blessing of Love Golden Light You Are My Love Near My Heart BBE Music announces the first ever reissue of jazz bassist David Wertmans rare 1983 Sun Ensemble LP Wide Eye Culture,

UPC: 195081075921
Label: BBE MUSIC
Format: LP
Release Date: March 18, 2022
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Tracklist

  1. Forest Dance
  2. Camel
  3. Flute Song
  4. New Earth
  5. Sing My Love Song
  6. Dance Of The Mid-East Madness
  7. Summer Heat
  8. How Come?
  9. Political Science
  10. Up In The Sky
  11. Sci-Fi Fantasy
  12. Blessing of Love
  13. Golden Light
  14. You Are My Love
  15. Near My Heart

BBE Music announces the first ever reissue of jazz bassist David Wertman’s rare 1983 Sun Ensemble LP ‘Wide Eye Culture’, carefully remastered and presented as a deluxe expanded edition, with 8 bonus tracks. Five years after the release of his Sun Ensemble debut ‘Earthly Delights’, also reissued on BBE Music, spiritual jazz bassist and prolific composer David Wertman returned to the studio in 1983 to record the follow-up, ‘Wide Eye Culture’. Now, thanks to David’s wife and musical partner Lynne Meryl, in this special deluxe edition of the album we’ve been able to include three more obscure independent releases by Wertman and Meryl, which bridge the gap between the two LPs. Two impossibly rare 1981 flexi-discs and one 1982 two-track ’45 serve to chart Wertman’s musical evolution as he settled in the lush Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts and surrounded himself with a whole new array of talented collaborators and musical influences. Emerging from the ferment of New York’s infamous free jazz loft scene, where the music was free and ‘out’, the sessions went on for hours and the characters were dangerous and wild, David Wertman had spent his young adulthood attending what he described as “the college of ‘da streets’.” Having sharpened his skills against those of Billy Bang, Arthur Blythe, Steve Reid and Charles Tyler, among others, during the late ‘70s, Wertman made the move to Northampton, MA where his irrepressible, magnetic energy quickly drew a diverse, open-minded and talented group of players into his orbit. Alongside a core trio of vocalist Lynne Meryl, pianist Tom McClung and Wertman himself, the Wide Eye Culture album features future Sting/Don Cherry collaborator Tony Vacca on drums and Aretha Franklin/Tony Bennet band member turned music lecturer Tim Atherton on trombone. Other local musicians and friends feature on the 1981 flexi-disc ‘You Are My Love’, recorded under Lynne Meryl’s name only; the Sun Ensemble’s ‘Up In The Sky’, recorded that same year at Smith College’s John M. Greene Hall; and 1982’s 7” ’45RPM release, ‘Blessing of Love/Golden Light’, recorded as David Wertman & Lynne Meryl. Soon after these recordings, Tom McClung left for Europe to perform with Archie Shepp and Steve McCraven, where he remained until his death in 2017. With the addition of McClung’s lyrical, effortless piano playing, Lynne Meryl’s acrobatic vocals and Vacca’s expressive, visceral drumming, Wide Eye Culture is perhaps more accessible than Wertman’s earlier works, although flashes of his experimental freeform style still remain throughout these discs. “What Dave played was like nothing I’d heard before. I was inexperienced as a jazz singer, but I opened up quickly and started to improvise and scat. Coming from the New York loft free jazz scene, Dave had never played structured tunes before. So, he lifted me up and I grounded him. It was perfect.” – Lynne Meryl

The first ever reissue of David Wertman and Sun Ensemble’s rare 1983 album ‘Wide Eye Culture’. Featuring 8 bonus tracks, taken from three self-released singles and EPs recorded in the early 1980s. Featuring Sting / Don Cherry collaborator Tony Vacca and Aretha Franklin / Tony Bennet bandmember Tim Atherton, alongside Wertman’s wife, renowned jazz vocalist and songwriter Lynne Meryl. Full global press and radio campaign. USA by Scorepress, France by HIM Media, Japan by Rush Production.

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