This article was first published at All About Jazz on March 6, 2001.

It wasn't but a few years ago that veteran record producer Joel Dorn and a business partner founded 32 Records, a label devoted to re-releasing the old Muse and Landmark catalogs and releasing previously unheard live recordings by major jazz artists. Previous to that, Dorn had been the founder of Night records and a producer and A&R guy for Nesuhi Ertegun's Atlantic Records. He has won eight Grammy? Awards, most notably for producing Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Her Face." In late 1999, Joel Dorn left 32 Records to head up his newest endeavor, Label M, a record label that is part of the larger multimedia company Paradise Music and Entertainment.

Label M has as it's core a collection of some 350 privately recorded live performances from the archives of Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society. These show were recorded, mostly on Sunday afternoons, between 1965 and 1980, capturing the cream of the jazz world performing at their peak, during a time when jazz as being supplanted by rock as the popular music. Dorn had been aware of these tapes since the mid-1980s, when he was at the helm of his self-started Night Records. At the time, he approached the society with the idea of releasing the music, but was spurned by the society who was unsure of the legal ramifications of releasing this music. After fifteen years of discussions, Dorn was able to secure a five-year exclusive deal where he had complete rights to release the Left Bank material. This gave rise to the formation of Label M Live, a series of Label M releases devoted to previously unreleased live recordings, both from the Left Bank Jazz Society Performances and elsewhere. To date, there have been five Live at the Left Bank releases. All of this music has been previously unheard by the general population, making them valuable additions to the discographies of the performing artists, many who have passed on.

Stan Getz
My Foolish Heart, Live at the Left Bank
(Label M 5702)

This is perhaps the best of this glut of releases. Getz is in relaxed lyrical form as he breathlessly spins his way through ballads "My Foolish Heart" and "Spring is Here." Recorded in May 1975, Getz tapped the considerable rhythm section of