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Win a copy of Michel Petrucciani’s 1987 live album!

One copy of Kuumbwa will be given away to a paid subscriber.

Every month, The Vinyl Cut gives away a piece of choice vinyl to one of the excellent subscribers on our paid tier. And this month is no exception. For June, we’re giving away Michel Petrucciani’s Kuumbwa, a live album that came out earlier this year as part of Record Store Day in Europe and as a standard—albeit limited—release in the US. Released on Elemental Music and overseen by Zev Feldman, Kuumbwa was recorded at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California, on May 11, 1987 and is a double LP mastered by Matthew Lutthans from a digital transfer of the original tapes.

Petrucciani was only 24 at the time of the recording but had already proved himself as an excellent jazz pianist—one whose career would be cut short at age 36 after a lifelong battle with osteogenesis imperfecta, which impacted his ability to get to and from the piano but never his prodigious playing style. For the Kuumbwa live date, Petrucciani was joined by Dave Holland on bass and Eliot Zigmund on drums.

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