Our Kind of Sabi (Remastered) Eddie Louiss

• 1 Our Kind of Sabi 10:49
• 2 Zafe Ko Ida 07:32
• 3 Song for Martine 16:42
• 4 Out of the Sorcellery 04:13
• Total Runtime 39:16

Info for Our Kind of Sabi (Remastered)

The brilliant French Hammond organist and pianist Eddy Louiss worked with the likes of Kenny Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Stan Getz; reed player John Surman and drummer Daniel Humair have long been major forces on the European scene. Louiss also recorded the title piece on Stan Getz’s “Dynasty” album – here the trio presents a wilder version with fiery solos from Surman’s baritone and Louiss on Hammond. This trio likes their Sabi hot with a Spanish tinge. On the Martinique folk song Zafe Ko Ida, the great Norwegian bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson joins Louiss on Marimba and Humair on drums, keeping with the tradition of the Caribbean before Eddy switches to piano and the three transform the sound of the islands into swinging jazz. Song For Martine brings Surman back on soprano and Louiss once again sitting behind the Hammond with a plaintive balladic feel before moving into an Afro-Latin groove that underpins passionate solos. On Humair’s Out Of The Sorcellery Louiss pedals the Latinesque two-beat bass line on Hammond as he and Humair conjure their magical interplay. A classy trio album with Louiss’ superb Hammond organ play front and center and a glimmering of the Caribbean dancing in the shadows.

John Surman, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, double bass
Daniel Humair, drums
Eddie Louiss, organ, piano, marimba

Recorded August 27, 28 and 29, 1970 At Nippon Columbia Studio Akasaka, Tokyo
Engineered by Norio Okada
Produced by Joachim E. Berendt

Digitally remastered

Eddy Louiss
has spent most of his career leading his own group in France, but twice has made particularly notable recordings, both on organ. He had sung as a member of the Double Six (1961-1963), played piano with Johnny Griffin in the mid-'60s, and worked at times with Kenny Clarke and Jean-Luc Ponty. But he is best-known for recording Dynasty with Stan Getz (1971) and for his duet set with pianist Michel Petrucciani (1994) on Dreyfus.

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