In May 1960, the quartet's performance at the club was recorded by RR, a Swiss private label. The recording—The Remo Rau Quartet: An Evening at the Club Africana—gives us a rare listen to Swiss jazz at the start of a new decade and features an artist whose jazz approach was singular.
The recording is super rare. Only 150 copies were printed. Now, the music can be found streaming or as a download at Bandcamp. Sonorama, a German label, issued the recording using an LP on loan from a collector. To read the album's liner notes, go here.
Here's the Remo Rau Quartet's An Evening at the Cafe Africana, without ad interruptions...
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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