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Enjoy the music! Mark Levine - Producer, Bay Area Jazz Archives
Bay Area Jazz Archives (BAJA) is a collaboration between myself and Jazzschool Records, an ongoing, archival record of Bay Area jazz and Latin jazz from approximately 1975-2000. Comprised mostly of unreleased demos from my collection -- demos that should have made it to release but didn't -- they fill in much-needed gaps in the history of jazz in the San Francisco area. Musicians that should have gotten wider recognition - Chuck Clark, Mike Morris, Don Weed, Bishop Norman Williams, David Ginsberg; bands that never made it to the next level - Esencia and Ellis Island; and recordings that were released but were never promoted and sank out of sight - by Wayne DeSilva and Que Calor; and a few musicians that made it out of the Bay Area to find success in NY - Peter Washington, Larry & Phil Grenadier, Eddie Henderson, Peck Allmond, Linda Goldstein, Kenny Wollesen - are represented as well. The CDs sell for the unheard of price of $9. Each is in a Limited edition of 500. They are sold only by the individual artists, as well as at the Jazzschool Book and Record Store. The releases so far (shown in bold), and those planned, are shown below:
Coming: George Cotsirilos, Khalil Shaheed, Don Weed, Benny Velarde
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Bay Area Jazz Archives (BAJA) is a unique collection of previously unreleased recordings of the San Francisco Bay Area's finest jazz artists from 1970 - 2000. The Jazzschool is proud to release the Bay Area Jazz Archives series on the Jazzschool Records label.
