A Jazz Thread

[gjw100]

‘It’s My Life I’m Fighting For’ from the 1973 album ‘Full Circle’ by singer Leon Thomas, featuring Jimmy Owens trumpet, Pee Wee Ellis flute, Neil Creque electric piano, Lloyd Davis guitar, Richard Davis bass, Herbie Lovelle drums, Richard Landrum percussion and Sonny Morgan percussion.

[diggedy derek]

gjw, this is where I've been spending this weekend:

https://videos.qwest.tv

It has some beautiful videos: Coltrane in 1965 with Elvin Jones a few months before Jones left the group, Bill Evans and Lee Konitz trio, Chet Baker both playing and singing with his group, and so much more. Worth a look and might be worth a bit of your money.

[gjw100]

Cheers, Derek. That's an incredible treasure trove of material. I now feel like a junkie who's been offered a back door key to the local crystal meth lab! I can quite see how you may have lost a weekend in there.

[gjw100]

‘Scavenger’ from Shelly Manne’s 1972 album ‘Mannekind’, with Manne on drums/percussion, Mike Wofford piano, John Gross tenor saxophone and flute, Gary Barone trumpet, John Morell guitar and Jeffrey Castleman bass.

[gjw100]

The title track from trombonist Phil Ranelin’s 1976 album ‘Vibes From The Tribe’, with Marcus Belgrave trumpet, Wendell Harrison tenor saxophone, Kenny Cox electric piano, Ron English bass and George Davidson drums.

[gjw100]

‘Love Song’ from alto saxophonist/flautist Sylvester ‘Sonny Red’ Kyner’s 1971 album ‘Sonny Red’, with Cedar Walton piano, Herbie Lewis bass and Billy Higgins drums.

[gjw100]

‘Black Pride’ from the 1971 album ‘I Stand Alone’ by Charles Owens’ Mother Lode, with Owens on tenor and soprano saxophones, Oscar Brashear trumpet, Thurman Green trombone, Dwight Dickerson electric piano, Woody Murray vibraphone, Paul Smith bass, Bobby Thompson drums and Ricardo Torres percussion.

[Satchmo Distel]

Thelonious Monk - Nutty

Thelonious Monk - Rhythm A Ning

[gjw100]

‘Mr T’ from Chester Thompson’s 1971 album ‘Powerhouse’, with Thompson on organ, Rudolph Johnson tenor saxophone, Al Hall trombone, and Ray Pounds drums. In case you are wondering, this is not the Chester Thompson who played drums for Zappa, Weather Report, etc.

[gjw100]

‘Don’t Look Back’ from Shirley Scott’s 1974 album ‘One For Me’, with Scott on organ and mellotron (quite possibly the only time a mellotron was used on a mainstream jazz recording), Harold Vick tenor saxophone and Billy Higgins drums.

[gjw100]

‘Off Minor’ from Cedar Walton’s 1975 album ‘Mobius’, with Walton on keyboards, Charles Davis alto/baritone saxophone, Frank Foster tenor saxophone, Roy Burrowes trumpet, Wayne Andre trombone, Ryo Kawasaki guitar, Steve Gadd drums, Gordon Edwards bass and Ray Mantilla percussion.

[gjw100]

Batidos was a short-lived collaboration between DJ/producer Ron Trent and Jay Rodriguez, that produced just one excellent album, ‘Olajope’, in 2001. This is the title track, with Trent on programming/percussion and Rodriguez on tenor saxophone.

[gjw100]

‘The Mosquito Coast 94-96' from the 1997 album ‘Looking At The Future In The Rear-View Mirror’ by bassist Simon Bramley’s Mr Gone, featuring Neil Hunter on keyboards.

[gjw100]

'Goddess’ from the 1998 album ‘Distraction’ by Wai Wan (aka Waiwan), which, as far as I know, is the only record that he has ever released. All instruments and programming by Wai except for Andrew Darlison’s flute and Audrey Okwere-Fosu's vocals.

[gjw100]

‘Black Light’ from (son of Clint) Kyle Eastwood’s 2009 album ‘Metropolitan’, with Eastwood on bass, Till Bronner trumpet, Graeme Blevins tenor saxophone, Eric Legnini organ, Andrew McCormack electric piano and Franck Agulhon drums.

[gjw100]

‘The Goat And The Ramjam’ from the Jesse Sharps Quintet’s 2004 album ‘Sharps And Flats’, with Sharps on soprano and tenor saxophones, Nate Morgan piano, Steve Smith trumpet, Joel Ector bass and Carl Burnett drums.

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'Credo' from Norwegian saxophonist Tore Brunborg’s 2003 album ‘Gravity’, with Bugge Wesseltoft piano, Lars Danielsson bass and Anders Engen drums.

[gjw100]

In memory of bassist Paul Jackson, who has just died at the age of 73, this is perhaps his finest recorded moment - ‘Actual Proof’ from Herbie Hancock’s 1974 album ‘Thrust’, with Hancock on keyboards, Bennie Maupin saxophone/flute, Bill Summers percussion and Jackson’s long-time rhythm partner, Mike Clark drums. The tightness of the bass and drums here is simply astonishing, particularly as Jackson came up with a completely new and unrehearsed bass line on the day of recording and Clark, in defiance of producer David Rubinson, who wanted a simpler backbeat, was given just one chance to lay down the drum track that he thought would work better and completely nailed it from start to finish. There were better bassists and better drummers, but as a pair they were hard to beat.

[gjw100]

‘Sigo’s Garden’ from the 1973 live album ‘Swinging East’ by the rather splendidly named Bosko Petrovic’s Nonconvertible All Stars, with Croatian Petrovic on marimba and vibraphone, Tihomir Asanovic organ, Dan Mandrila tenor saxophone, Ozren Depolo alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Michal Urbaniak electric violin, Simeon Shterev flute, Salko Mujicic flute, Miljenko Prohaska bass and Batko Divjak drums.

[gjw100]

‘Ruyadaki Sesler’ from the 1978 album ‘Jazz Semai’ by the Turkish trio drummer/percussionist Erol Pekcan, bassist Kudret Oztoprak and band-leader, alto saxophonist and pianist Tuna Ortonel.

[gjw100]

‘Haze’s Dance’ by Swiss band Antithesis, from their self-titled 1973 album, with Denis Baggi soprano and tenor saxophones, Urs Voerkel piano, Bob Egloff bass and Herbert Hartmann drums/percussion.

[gjw100]

Like Catalyst, who were featured on this thread a few weeks back, The Awakening were a band who had everything going for them but inexplicably slipped between the cracks. This is ‘When Will It Ever End’ from their 1972 debut album ‘Hear, Sense And Feel’, with Ken Chaney electric piano, Richard Brown tenor saxophone and flute, Frank Gordon flugelhorn/trumpet, Steve Galloway trombone, Reggie Willis bass and Arlington Davis drums.

[gjw100]

‘Glory To The Sun’ from the The Awakening’s second and final album ‘Mirage’ (1973), with the same line up as before except for this track, where Rufus Reid came in on bass. A ‘third’ album, ‘Brand New Feelings’, released in 1976, was compiled from the first two releases.

[gjw100]

‘Ode To Africa’ from Harold McKinney’s 1974 album ‘Voices And Rhythms Of The Creative Profile’, with McKinney piano/vocals, Marcus Belgrave trumpet, Wendell Harrison flute, Darryl Dybka synthesizer, Ed Pickins bass, Ron Jackson drums, Charles Miles congas and Billy Turner percussion.

[Satchmo Distel]

Ella Fitzgerald - Oh! Lady Be Good (her first bebop recording), 1947:

Charlie Parker, Lester Young et al - Oh! Lady Be Good, January 1946 (possibly Ella's model for her version; interesting to contrast the Bird and Prez solos):

Same composition performed by Lionel Hampton All Stars 1947: