Claudio Fasoli, Kenny Wheeler, J.-F. Jenny-Clark, Daniel Humair

Welcome is a quartet date led by the Venetian saxophonist Claudio Fasoli, recorded in Milan in March 1986 with the trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, the bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark and the drummer Daniel Humair. Fasoli had come to notice in the 1970s with the Perigeo quintet, with Franco D'Andrea and Giovanni Tommaso among its members, and after the group broke up in 1978 he led his own trios and quartets. This was his second album for Soul Note, after Lido in 1983 with Kenny Drew, Barry Altschul and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.

The music was recorded in a single day, March 26, 1986, at Barigozzi Studio in Milan. Fasoli plays tenor and soprano saxophone, and Wheeler both trumpet and flugelhorn. The eight tracks are short, and the whole album runs under forty minutes. Each side ends with a miniature, Epic at about two minutes and the title track at a minute and a half, next to longer pieces such as Emptiness, Oblivion and Zen, the longest at nearly eight minutes. The partnership with Wheeler and Jenny-Clark continued: both are on Fasoli's Land, from 1990.

This is the Soul Note LP SN 1171, the catalogue number printed on the sleeve, which CAM Jazz describes as a copy of the original 1987 pressing on 140 gram vinyl, found again in the label's vaults.