Jeanne Lee – Conspiracy (1975)

There’s hopefully already someone writing a book or two about the story of Jeanne Lee, but in the meanwhile this reissue of her solo debut, out of print since the 1970s (yup, the Discogs median will absolutely make your skin crawl), could mark the starting point of a broader exploration of the work of the lyricist, singer, choreographer and composer, who has worked with Anthony Braxton as well as with John Cage or Pauline Oliveros. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? And so does Conspiracy. There’s traces of spiritual jazz as well as an air of a poetry slam in a smoky New York dive bar, of avant-garde music and pure bliss. It is, in short, the best record you’ve never heard. Kristoffer Cornils