A Jazz Thread

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‘Night Owl’ from bassist Terje Gewelt’s 2022 album ‘Dusk To Dawn’, with John Surman bass recorder and Erlend Slettevoll keyboards.

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‘Jan Johansson’ from pianist Kit Downes’ 2013 album ‘Light From Old Stars’, with Lucy Railton cello, James Allsopp clarinet, Calun Gourlay bass and James Maddren drums.

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‘The Sun In September’ from trumpeter Matthew Halsall’s 2012 album ‘Fletcher Moss Park’, with Lisa Mallett flute, Rachel Gladwin harp, Taz Modi piano, Gavin Barras bass and Luke Flowers drums.

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A version of Radiohead’s ‘True Love Waits’ from Nils Petter Molvaer’s 2021 album ‘Stitches’, featuring Molvaer trumpet/electronics, Johan Lindstrom guitar and pedal steel guitar, Jo Berger Myhre bass/synthesizer and Erland Dahlen drums/percussion.

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‘Dance Of Ran’ from vibraphonist Mike Mainieri’s 2006 album ‘Northern Lights’, with Nils Petter Molvaer trumpet, Bendik Hofseth soprano saxophone, Eivind Aarset guitar/electronics, Bugge Wesseltoft keyboards, Lars Danielsson bass, Paolo Vinaccia percussion and Jan Bang samples/programming.

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‘The Angel’ from the 2013 album ‘What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes’ by the Moss Project, featuring Moss Freed guitar, Alice Zawadzki violin, Ruth Goller bass and Marek Dorcik drums.

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‘Speak Without Ears’ from the 2010 album ‘Quadrangle’ by Mercury Falls – Patrick Cress alto saxophone, Ryan Francesconi guitar/electronics, Eric Perney bass and Tim Bulkley drums.

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‘Advance’ from the 2009 album ‘By Proxy’ by Partisans – Julian Siegel soprano saxophone, Phil Robson guitar, Thaddeus Kelly bass and Gene Calderazzo drums.

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Three tracks this morning in memory of the great Brazilian drummer and founder member of Azymuth, Ivan ‘Mamao’ Conti, who passed away last week at the age of 76. This is ‘The House I Lived In’ from Azymuth’s 1982 album ‘Telecommunication’, with the late Jose Robert Bertrami on keyboards and Alex Malheiros bass.

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‘Nurnen Sun’ from DJ/producer Kirk Degiorgio’s 2001 album ‘Two Worlds’, which featured Bertrami, Malheiros and Conti.

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‘Poison Fruit’ from 2019 was the last of Ivan Conti’s four solo albums. This is 'Bacurau’, on which he sings and plays drums, percussion and keyboards.

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‘Little Auk’ from the Haftor Medboe Group’s 2006 album ‘In Perpetuity’, featuring Medboe on guitar, Susan McKenzie soprano saxophone, Chris Grieve trombone, Signy Jakobsdottir percussion and the Edinburgh String Quartet.

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‘Whisper’ from pianist Dave Stapleton’s 2012 album ‘Flight’, with Marius Neset tenor saxophone, Dave Kane bass and Olavi Louhivuori drums, accompanied by the Brodowski String Quartet – David Brodowski violin, Catrin Morgan violin, Felix Tanner viola and Reinoud Ford cello.

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‘L’omal’ from the 2008 album ‘The Grieg Code’ by the Geir Lysne Ensemble, featuring Geir Lysne on tenor saxophone and flute, Tore Brunborg tenor saxophone and flute, Morten Halle alto/soprano saxophones, Steffon Schorn baritone saxophone and clarinet, Helge Sund trombone, Eckhard Bauer trumpet, Jesper Riis trumpet, Arkady Shikloper French horn, Lars Haug tuba, Jorn Oien keyboards, Bjorn Kjellemyr bass, Andreas Bye drums and Terje Isungset percussion.

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‘Partida’ from the 2014 album ‘Deconstruccion’ by the Ensamble Chancho A Cuerda – Manuel Rodriguez Riva clarinet and bass clarinet, Joaquin Chiban violin/viola, Lautaro Matute guitar/bandonion, Nicolas Rallis guitar, Nahuel Carfi keyboards, Julian Galay bass and Agustin Lumerman drums/percussion, with guests Juan Cruz de Urquiza trumpet and Manuel Calvo trombone.

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‘Reunion’ from the Kairos 4tet’s 2013 album ‘Everything We Hold’, featuring Ivo Neame piano, Ama Waldmann tenor saxophone, Jasper Hoiby bass and Jon Scott drums, with Ben Davis cello.

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‘Tales Of The Old Country’ from trumpeter Laura Jurd’s 2012 album ‘Landing Ground’, featuring Elliot Galvin piano, Ben Davis cello, Conor Chaplin bass and Corrie Dick drums, with the Ligeti Quartet – Mandhira de Saram violin, Patrick Dawkins violin, Richard Jones viola and Val Welbanks cello.

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‘Up On The Moors’ from the 2019 album ‘Cause And Effect’ by The Casimir Connection – Diane McLoughlin alto/soprano saxophones, Pawel Grudzien piano, Kit Massey violin and Tim Fairhall bass.

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Lots of very good stuff put up on here in the last week or two.

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‘Africa’ from pianist Chick Corea’s 2012 album ‘The Continents: Concerto For Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra’, with Tim Garland saxophones, clarinet and flute, Steve Davis trombone, Hans Glawischnig bass, Marcus Gilmore drums and a small chamber orchestra made up by members of the Imani Winds ensemble and the Harlem String Quartet conducted by Steven Mercurio.

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‘Arches Of Nature: Circles’ from saxophonist Marius Neset’s 2016 album ‘Snowmelt’, with Torbjorn Hultmark trumpet, Petter Eldh bass, Anton Eger drums and the London Sinfonietta conducted by Geofrey Paterson.

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‘Lex’ from trumpeter Eric Vloieman’s 2013 album ‘Evensong’, with Hans Vroomans piano, Jeroen Vierdag bass, Dirk Peter Kolsch drums and the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jurjen Hempel.

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‘Unforgotten, Unforgiven’, the new single from Scrimshire, featuring Nat Birchall on tenor saxophone and Adam Scrimshire keyboards/programming.

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The title track from the 2005 album ‘The 11th Pill’ by MopMop (Italian drummer/producer Andrea Benini, with Enrico Farnedi trumpet, Federico Montefiori bass clarinet, Alessandro Trebo keyboards, Pasquale Mirra vibraphone and Gabriele Pesaresi bass.

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‘Long Time Of Darkness’ from the 2020 album ‘The Light Come Black’ by the Organic Pulse Ensemble, aka Swedish multi-instrumentalist Gustav Horneij, who plays saxophones, flute, clarinet, trumpet, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums and percussion.