Joki Freund Sextet. Yogi Jazz. New Arrival

After the excellent New Jazz Ramwong (TB 6171LP, 2024), Tiger Bay is back with another and almost overlooked gem from the German jazz scene of the '60s by one of its most dazzling figures, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Joki Freund. Yogi Jazz is without doubts his masterpiece, for which he gathered a group of young European musicians who later would achieve great notoriety. Although the influence of Coltrane is clear throughout the album, the sextet reaches here an outstanding "cool" and original quality of rare beauty.

A1 Caravan

Flute – Emil Mangelsdorff

Soprano Saxophone – Joki Freund

Written-By – Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol

9:11

A2 Aisha

Flute – Emil Mangelsdorff

Tenor Saxophone – Joki Freund

Written-By – McCoy Tyner

3:48

A3 The Carribean Ringo

Flute – Emil Mangelsdorff

Soprano Saxophone, Written-By – Joki Freund

4:21

A4 Killer Joe

Alto Saxophone – Emil Mangelsdorff

Tenor Saxophone – Joki Freund

Written-By – Benny Golson

5:31

B1 HL 20

Alto Saxophone – Emil Mangelsdorff

Tenor Saxophone, Written-By – Joki Freund

11:24

B2 Yogiana

Alto Saxophone, Flute – Emil Mangelsdorff

Tenor Saxophone, Written-By – Joki Freund

10:56

Recorded At – Tonstudio Walldorf

Remastered At – Studio 512

Printed By – Song Cycle Ltd.

Arranged By, Leader – Joki Freund

Bass – Eberhard Weber, Karl Theodor Geier

Design [Album Design], Graphics, Photography By – Günther Kieser, Hans Michel

Drums – Peter Baumeister

Engineer [Recording] – Dieter Von Goetze

Piano – Wolfgang Dauner

Producer – Horst Lippmann

Recorded on November 20, 1963. Gatefold cover with original liner notes.