Not every jazz standard stays instrumental. On Shout For Trane by Joe Lee Wilson & The Bond Street +1, “Song for My Father” (1965, Horace Silver) becomes a spiritual vocal soul-jazz piece.

At the centre is Joe Lee Wilson himself. Born in 1935 in Bristow, Oklahoma, he was not a typical jazz singer. After early years in Europe, he settled in New York in the 1970s and founded the legendary performance loft called Ladies’ Fort, an important meeting place for musicians of the avant-garde at the time.

Wilson worked with greats like Archie Shepp, Sonny Rollins, and Pharoah Sanders, moving stylistically between hard bop, spiritual and free jazz.

The record itself fits right in: released in Japan in 1976 on Whynot, strongly influenced by John Coltrane and typical of a time when many US jazz musicians made some of their most important recordings outside the United States.