A Jazz Thread

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‘Eternal Flame’ from Bennie Maupin’s 1977 album ‘Slow Traffic To The Right’, with Maupin on soprano saxophone, Eddie Henderson trumpet, Patrice Rushen keyboards, DeWayne ‘Blackbyrd’ McKnight guitar, Paul Jackson bass and James Levi drums.

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‘Skyline’ from pianist Yelena Eckemoff’s 2015 album ‘Everblue’, featuring Tore Brunborg tenor saxophone, Arild Andersen bass and Jon Christensen drums.

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‘Swallow’ from pianist Wolfert Brederode’s 2022 ECM album ‘Ruins And Remains’, with drummer Joost Lijbaart and the Matangi Quartet – Karsten Kleijer viola, Daniel Torrico Menacho violin, Maria-Paula Majoor violin and Arno van der Vuurst violoncello.

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‘Mary Shelley’ from bassist Matt Ulery’s 2014 album ‘In The Ivory’, featuring Timothy Munro flute, Michael Maccaferri clarinet, Lisa Kaplan piano, Gregory Beyer marimba/vibraphone, Yvonne Lam violin, Zach Brock violin, Dominic Johnson viola, Nicholas Photinos cello and Jon Deltemyer drums/percussion.

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‘Becoming Brothers’ from bassist Ben Wolfe’s 2015 album ‘The Whisperer’, with Stacey Dillard tenor/soprano saxophone, Orrin Evans piano and Donald Edwards drums.

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‘Fire Of Benevolence’ from the 2023 album ‘Life to Life’ by pianist Jason Rebello and saxophonist Tim Garland.

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‘A Short Diary’, a 2022 collaboration between drummer Seb Rochford and pianist Kit Downes is the former's musical tribute to his late father, poet and composer Gerald Rochford. This track ‘Even Now I Think Of Her’ is one of Gerald’s last compositions, sung over the telephone to Seb shortly before his death in 2019 and subsequently arranged for the album by Downes.

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‘Acceptance’ from tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana’s 2019 album ‘Visions’, with Joel Ross vibraphone, Sam Harris piano, Pablo Menares bass and Tommy Crane drums.

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‘Mediterranean Sun’ from bassist Avishai Cohen’s 2005 album ‘At Home’, with Anne Drummond flute, Diego Urcola flugelhorn, Mark Guiliana percussion and Yosvany Terry percussion.

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The title track from the Florian Hoefner Group’s 2015 album ‘Luminosity’, with Hoefner on piano, Seamus Blake soprano saxophone, Sam Anning bass and Peter Kronreif drums.

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‘Malcolm X’ from tenor saxophonist Hal Singer’s 1971 album ‘Blues And News’, with Jacques Bolognesi trombone, Siegfried Kessler piano, Jean-Claude Andre guitar, Patrice Caratini bass, Art Taylor drums and Alain Charlety percussion.

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‘Shorter’s Vibe’ from the1978 album ‘Reality’ by trumpeter Frank Walton, with Ari Brown soprano/tenor saxophones, Henry Threadgill alto saxophone, Jodie Christian electric piano, Rudolph Penson bass and Bob McCamant drums.

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‘El Sertao’ from tenor saxophonist Gato Barbieri’s 1973 album ‘Under Fire’, with an all-star line-up of Lonnie Liston-Smith electric piano, John Abercrombie guitar, Stanley Clarke bass, Roy Haynes drums and Airto Moreira percussion.

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‘Disco Suicide’ from ‘Moroccan Roll’ (1977). Same line up as before.

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A couple of tracks this morning to mark the recent death of keyboard-player Robin Lumley, founder-member of Brand X, one of the few British jazz-fusion bands of the 1970’s capable of holding their own with the likes of Mahavishnu and Return To Forever. This is ‘Nuclear Burn’ from their debut ‘Unorthodox Behaviour’ (1976), featuring Lumley, John Goodsall guitar, Percy Jones bass and of course Phil Collins on drums, taking time away from the day job and demonstrating what a very fine drummer he was at his peak.

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‘Sleep Safe And Warm’ from the 2014 album ‘Spark Of Life’ by the Marcin Wasilewski Trio – Slawomir Kurkiewicz bass, Michal Miskiewicz drums and Wasilewski piano, with guest Joachim Milder tenor saxophone.

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‘Dissolving Points’ from the 2023 album ‘Wide Open’ by Little North – Benjamin Norholm Jacobsen piano, Marin Brunberg Rasmussen bass and Lasse Jacobsen drums.

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‘March Of The Sad Ones’ from the 2015 album ‘Minor Dispute’ by bassist Petros Klampanis, with Gilad Hekselman guitar, Jean-Michel Pilc piano, Lev Zhurbin viola, Maria Manousaki violin, Megan Gould violin, Yoed Nir cello and John Hadfield drums/percussion.

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From the ‘Night Dreamer’ album that Wayne Shorter made with Lee Morgan amongst others.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdyEWvXpIg

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‘July’ from singer Janne Mark’s 2020 album ‘Kontinent’, with Nils Okland violin, Arve Henriksen trumpet/electronics, Henrik Gunde keyboards, Esben Eyermann bass and Bjorn Heeboll drums.

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‘Fly Away’ from trumpeter Airelle Besson’s 2021 album ‘Try!’, with Isabel Sorling vocals, Benjamin Moussay piano/synthesizer/synth bass and Fabrice Moreau drums.

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The title track from the 2022 album ‘In The Mountains’ by the Espen Eriksen Trio – Eriksen on piano, Lars Tormod Jenset bass and Andreas Bye drums, with guest Andy Sheppard tenor saxophone.

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The title track from Frank Foster’s 1972 album ‘The Loud Minority’, featuring Foster on soprano/alto/tenor saxophones, Kenny Rodgers baritone saxophone, Cecil Bridgewater trumpet, Hannibal Marvin Peterson trumpet, Dick Griffin trombone, Harold Mabern piano, Earl Dunbar guitar, Stanley Clarke bass, Elvin Jones drums, Airto Moreira percussion and Dee Dee Bridgewater vocals.

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‘Reachin Searchin’ from alto saxophonist Robert Watson’s 1978 album ‘Estimated Time Of Arrival’, with Walter Davis Jr keyboards, Curtis Lundy bass, Joe Caro guitar, Billy Hart drums and an 11-piece horn section.

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‘First Come First Serve’ from the 1973 album ‘Sweet Sister Funk’ by tenor saxophonist Ramon Morris, with Cecil Bridgewater trumpet, Albert Dailey electric piano, Lloyd Davis guitar, Mickey Bass bass, Mickey Roker drums and Tony Waters percussion.