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Album Info
Release Date: 1998Label: Rearward
On this one "SAHIB" and "THOSE" are printed thicker and set in a different font on front, back and spine of the slipcase compared to the other release.Digipack carrier, insert booklet and slipcover box.
Some copies had a stickered barcode with 7 8066-19302-2 8 over original barcode 8 018344 021027.
Slipcover mentions: "featuring Fats Sadi, Joe Harris, Benny Bailey, Åke Persson, Francy Boland, Jimmy Woode Jr., Kenny Clarke" with the text being set with a hanging indent.
Unlike on the other release Johnny Griffin is not being mentioned on the slipcover.
Tracks 1, 2, 4 recorded in Cologne, June 9th 1968.
Track 3 recorded in Rolandseck, September 25th 1965.
Tracks 5, 6 recorded in Cologne, 1964/1965.
Tracks 7 to 10 recorded in Cologne, May 8th & 9th 1964.
Tracks 11 to 15 recorded in Cologne, July 1970.
Nearly half the tracks can also be found on Sahib Shihab – Companionship / Jazz Joint, Vol. 2, a German compilation originally released on double vinyl in 1971, which was re-released by the Italian Rearward label on vinyl and CD (RW 119LP, RW 119CD) in 2008 (the very same label that had compiled ''And All Those Cats'' ten years before).
''Jay - Jay'' ist deutschen Fernsehzuschauern als Titelmelodie der ARD-TV-Reihe "Der 7. Sinn" bekannt.
''Jay - Jay'' was used at the start of each epsiode of a long-running German TV programme.