The Jazzman label continues its excellent Spiritual Jazz compilation series with a focus on the SABA and MPS labels from Germany, who released tons of music by a diverse range of international jazz artists in the sixties and seventies. Few have heard of these labels next to colossuses like Blue Note and Impulse! - Spiritual Jazz 17 ought to change that, containing music from artists range from Elvin Jones to Pedro Iturralde and Hideo Shiraki.

Any of the Spiritual Jazz Compilations on Jazzman Records are worth your time. Now up to volume 17, they continue to deliver.

Every time I walk into Honest Jon’s in Granary Square, I usually walk out with what Andreas is playing.

It’s kind of impossible to find a duff record there really but the gentleman has impeccable taste and it’s like me being Mr Benn to his shop keeper giving me a new suit of clothes for my ears each time.

This wonder was playing: