Over the past few years especially, new releases by contemporary jazz musicians have had to vie for attention with recently discovered, decades-old recordings by some of their legendary (and long-deceased) forebears. Among the most notable examples of such “lost albums” are John Coltrane’s Offering: Live at Temple University, a searing 1966 performance by the saxophonist, taped just months before his death; and the aptly titled Some Other Time: The Lost Session From the Black Forest, a radiant standards-centric Bill Evans studio session captured in ’68.
Both of these recordings were brought to light by Los Angeles-based Resonance Records. Not surprisingly, when the founders of two French reissue labels unearthed boxes of audiotape that had been gathering dust for over half a century in the archive of a Paris-based jazz insider, they turned to Resonance’s Executive VP and General Manager, Zev Feldman, to collaborate on the launch of their own rare relic.
