MINOR WORKS

TRACKLISTING


A1. Jack Sels - Spanish Lady
A2. Jack Sels - Ginger
A3. Jack Sels - Nick's Kick
A4. Jack Sels - Dorian 0437
A 5. Jack Sels - La Campimania
B1. Jack Sels - African Dance
B2. Jack Sels - Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
B3. Jack Sels - Blues For A Blonde
B4. Ja ck Sels - Blue Triptichon
B5. Jack Sels - Rain On The Grand'Place

C1. Jack Sels - Night In Tunisia
C2. Jack Sels - Minor Works
C3. Jack Sels - T chak-Tchak
C4. Jack Sels - Invitation
C5. Jack Sels - Minor 5
D1. Jack Sels - The Preacher
D2. Jack Sels - Dong
D3. Jack Sels - Gemini
D4. Jac k Sels - It Might As Well Be Spring





INFO

Jack the hipster. A musician's musician. The white negro from the docks. Jack Sels has been given many nicknames throughout the years. The Antwerp saxophone p layer who died at the mere age of 48 in 1970, remains Belgium's most mythical ja zz musician, both to those who knew him during his lifetime and those who only k now him from the stories ? and there are quite some stories to be told about Jac k Sels. Throughout his career, he would play with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gil lespie, Lester Young, Lou Bennett and Lucky Thompson, but he remained virtually unknown outside Belgium due to his reluctance to leave Antwerp.

Almos t fifty years after his death, Jack Sels remains Belgium's most intriguing jazz musician. Partly due to his limited discography, he is overlooked by a wider aud ience. Yet, his contribution to the development of the modern jazz scene in Belg ium cannot be overestimated, and neither can his influence on his fellow musicia ns, to whom he was the embodiment of jazz. As vibraphone player Fats Sadi once s aid: 'I loved Jack. He had never studied music and didn't have the least bit of technique. But if Jack played, the gates of heaven opened. Jack was more jazz than jazz itself.'

'Minor Works' is a collection of rare, previously unreleased recordings paying homage to the life and jazz of the enigmatic musici an.