A Jazz Thread

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‘Pentandria’ from Robert Rockwell III’s 1974 album ‘Androids’, with Rockwell on bass clarinet and tenor saxophone, Bobby Lyle piano, Mike Elliott guitar, Willard Peterson bass and Bill Berg drums.

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‘Virgo Paths’ from Milt Ward and Virgo Spectrum’s self-titled 1975 album, with Ward on trumpet, Bill Pierce soprano saxophone, Carlos Garnett tenor saxophone, Eddie Alex alto saxophone, Glenn Barbour baritone saxophone, Delmar Brown electric piano and synthesizer, Cucho Martinez bass and Hugh Peterson drums.

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‘Logical Mystery’ from trumpeter Terumasa Hino’s 1975 album ‘Live In Concert’, with Sadao Watanabe alto saxophone, Hideo Miyata tenor saxophone, Shigeharu Mukai trombone, Fumio Itabashi electric piano, Kiyoshi Sugimoto guitar, Akira Okazawa electric bass, Tsutomu Okada acoustic bass, Motohiko Hino drums, Masahiko Togashi percussion and Yuhji Imamura percussion.

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‘Invader 7’ from the self-titled 1976 album by George Kawaguchi’s Big 4, with Hidehiko Matsumoto tenor saxophone, Hideo Ichikawa electric piano, Takashi Mizuhashi bass and George Kawaguchi drums.

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‘Witch Hunt’ from pianist Misha Tsiganov’s 2018 album ‘Playing With The Wind’, featuring Alex Sipiagin trumpet, Seamus Blake tenor saxophone, Matt Brewer bass and Dan Weiss drums.

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‘Nephthys’ from trumpeter Jeremy Pelt’s 2015 album ‘Tales, Musings And Other Reveries’, with Simona Premazzi piano, Ben Allison bass and Billy Drummond drums.

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‘Cubism’ from tenor saxophonist Mark Turner’s 2009 album ‘Yam Yam’, with Kurt Rosenwinkel guitar, Brad Mehldau piano, Larry Grenadier bass and Jorge Rossy drums.

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‘Speak No Evil’ from the Dave Liebman Big Band’s 2014 album ‘A Tribute To Wayne Shorter’, featuring Liebman on soprano saxophone and flute, Gunnar Mossblad alto/soprano saxophones and flute, Tom Christenson alto saxophone and flute, Chris Karlic clarinet and baritone saxophone, Tim Reis tenor saxophone and clarinet, Dave Reikenberg clarinet, flute and tenor saxophone, Danny Cahn, Dave Ballou, Bob Milllikan, Brian Pareschi and Patrick Dorian trumpets/flugelhorns, Jason Jackson, Jeff Nelson, Tim Sessions and Scott Reeves trombones, Vic Juris guitar, Jim Ridl piano, Tony Marino bass and Marko Marcinko drums, with all arrangements by Mats Holmquist.

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‘December Song’ from the Tobias Hoffman Jazz Orchestra’s 2022 album ‘Conspiracy’, featuring Patrick Dunst alto/soprano saxophones and flute, Andy Schofield alto saxophone, clarinet and flute, Robert Unterköfler tenor/soprano saxophones and clarinet, Martin Harms tenor saxophone and clarinet, Robert Bachner trombone/euphonium, Jonas Brinckmann baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, Jakob Helling trumpet/flugelhorn, Kasperi Sarikoski trombone, Vilkka Wahl guitar, Philipp Nykrin, piano, Ivar Roban Krizic bass and Reinhold Schmölzer drums/electronics.

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The title track from pianist Kristjan Randalu’s 2022 album ‘Sisu’, with Ben Monder guitar, Ingrid Jensen trumpet, Mihkel Malgand bass, Karl-Juhan Laanesaar drums and the New Wind Jazz Orchestra – Allan Kaljaste alto saxophone, Markus Eerman tenor saxophone and flute, Aleksander Paal alto/soprano saxophones, Tobias Tammearu tenor/soprano saxophones, Martin Kuusk baritone saxophone and clarinet, Ingvar Leerimaa, Artur Kiik, Andrus Karjel and Johannes Kiik trombones and Allan Jarve, Jason Hunter, Samuel Jalakas and Vallo Mand trumpets.

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‘Tundra’ from the 2022 album ‘Out Of The Fog’ by tuba player Daniel Herskedal, with Emilie Nicollas vocals, Eivind Aarset guitar/electronics and Helge Norbakken drums.

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‘Breeze’ from the 2019 album ‘Depart’ by Akku Quintet – Michael Gilsenan tenor saxophone, Maja Nydegger piano, Markus Ischer guitar, Andi Schnellmann bass and Manual Pasquinelli drums.

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‘Nightingales’ from the forthcoming album ‘Gift From The Trees’ by Mammal Hands – Jordan Smart soprano saxophone, Nick Smart piano and Jesse Barrett drums/percussion.

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‘Mr Pinononnk’ from the 2017 album ‘Tales And Tones’ by saxophonist Troy Roberts, with Silvano Monasterios piano, Robert Hurst bass and Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts drums.

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A version of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Visions’ from trumpeter Theo Croker’s 2014 album ‘Afro Physicist’, with Stefon Harris vibraphone, Sullivan Fortner keyboards, David Gilmore guitar, Michael Bowies bass and Karriem Riggins drums.

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‘Contra’ from tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III’s 2023 album ‘Return To Casual’, with Taylor Eigsti piano, Matt Stevens guitar, Harish Raghavan bass and Kendrick Scott drums.

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‘It Starts When We Disappear’ from guitarist Pat Metheny’s 2021 album ‘Side Eye NYC’, recorded live at the Sony Hall, New York in September 2019. With James Francies keyboards and Marcus Gilmore drums.

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‘Sunrise And Joshua Trees’ from the 2021 album ‘Sunrise Reprise’ by the Chris Potter Circuits Trio – Potter on saxophones, clarinets and flute, James Francies keyboards and Eric Harland drums.

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‘Striving After Wind’ from Brad Mehldau’s 2019 album ‘Finding Gabriel’, featuring Mehldau on keyboards, Becca Stevens vocals, Gabriel Kahane vocals and Mark Guiliana drums/electronics.

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‘Earopener’ from the self-titled 2002 debut album by Jacob Anderskov’s Accident, with Anderskov on electric piano, Ned Ferm tenor saxophone, Laura Toxvaerd alto saxophone, Kasper Tranberg trumpet, Gunnar Halle trumpet, Peter Dahlgren trombone, Jeppe Skoybakke bass and Rune Kielsgaard drums.

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‘Thoughtography’ from the 2021 album ‘Spectral Music’ by Ghost Rhythms - Camille Petit keyboards, Maxime Thiébaut alto, soprano and baritone saxophones, Guillaume Aventurin guitar, Julien Bigorgne flute/oud, Alexis Collin – accordion/electronics, Nadia Mejri-Chapelle cello, Tom Namias – guitars/bouzouki, Gregory Kosovski bass, Xavier Gelard drums and Morgan Lowenstein percussion, with guests Jerome Lacquet trumpet and Antoine Villedieu violin.

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‘Spirit Of Peace’ from pianist Dwiki Dharmawan’s 2016 album ‘Pasar Klewer’, with Gilad Atzmon clarinet, Nicolas Meier guitar, Yaron Stavi bass, Aris Daryono vocals/percussion and Asaf Sirkis drums/percussion.

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‘Cascade’ from Arun Ghosh’s 2022 album ‘Seclused In Light’, featuring Ghosh on clarinet, keyboards, guitar and bass, Idris Rahman tenor saxophone and bass clarinet and Dave Walsh drums/percussion.

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‘Tambura’ from the 1974 album ‘Sun Goddess’ by keyboard-player Ramsey Lewis, with Byron Gregory guitar, Cleveland Eaton bass and Maurice Jennings drums/percussion

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The title track from trumpeter Eddie Henderson’s 1975 album ‘Sunburst’, with Bennie Maupin tenor saxophone, Julian Priester trombone, George Duke keyboards, Alphonso Johnson bass and Harvey Mason drums.