Balladyna Shogun Audio and bassist Jermaine Paul

and bassist Jermaine Paul

1943) a band extraordinary in every respect

This purple fur ball wasted no time moving into Shipes’ crib

Discos Fuentes pioneered the sound of ‘Tropical’ music - Afro-Colombian dance music that originated in the north coast of Colombia bringing it to a new worldwide audience

Balladyna Shogun Audio and bassist Jermaine PaulAn essential document of European jazz in the 1970s, and a recording that still sounds magnificent today, Balladyna exerted an enduring influence on successive generations of improvising musicians in Poland and Finland above all, though it also cast its spell more widely. As Tomasz Stanko once said, My international name was built on Balladyna. On the record, the Polish trumpeter is joined by his close collaborator Edward Vesala on drums (We were like