Billy Valentine/ ‘Billy Valentine & The Universal Truth’/ Flying Dutchman Records | Shore Fire Media

17 March 2023

Billy Valentine/ ‘Billy Valentine & The Universal Truth’/ Flying Dutchman Records

Billy Valentine/ ‘Billy Valentine & The Universal Truth’/ Flying Dutchman Records

After nearly 40 years of dormancy, Flying Dutchman Records — the storied imprint founded by legendary record producer Bob Thiele (John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World”) and known for releases by Duke Ellington, Gil-Scott Heron, and Leon Thomas as well as recorded speeches by Black intellectuals like Angela Davis and Stanley Crouch — will return with the March 17 release of Billy Valentine & The Universal Truth, a record that is in tune with Flying Dutchman’s musical and political legacy while charting a new path for the label’s 21st century rebirth.