Elton Dean's Ninesense: Ninesense Suite/Natal – review

(Jazzwerkstatt)In 2009, a reissue of Ninesense's Happy Daze/Oh! For the Edge albums reminded longer-in-the-tooth jazz fans what a furnace this exciting band could stoke up, and maybe surprised some newcomers with the sharpness of the 1970s UK cutting-edge. These previously unreleased Berlin tapes from 1981/82 reveal Ninesense in its most unkempt and least thematic final phase on one long track, and the late trumpet star Harry Beckett with just the band's bassist Harry Miller and drummer Louis Mo...

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