AIG High Resolution Recordings: Chuck Israels, The Bellingham Sessions Vols. 1 and 2
“During the summer of 1998, Audio Ideas Recordings had an extraordinary opportunity: the chance to make a jazz recording with a great player, and his superbly talented and creative quartet. Chuck Israels was bassist with the Bill Evans Trio in the 60s, after earning a music degree at Brandeis University. However, after six years of gigs and recording, he tired of the insecurity and travel, ending up in recent years as a professor of music (specifically, jazz) at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, just south of Vancouver. Chuck is also an AIG reader….”