A Jazz Thread

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Fuller was a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers for five years in the early 60’s, and more than held his own with Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter as part of probably the strongest front-line trio to play under the Jazz Messengers banner. From the album ‘Kyoto’ recorded in 1964, this is his composition ‘The High Priest’, featuring Art Blakey drums, Cedar Walton piano, Reggie Workman bass, Hubbard trumpet, Shorter tenor saxophone and Fuller trombone.

[Tony C]

Two albums I came across via the ‘Jazz Bastard’ podcast. Both very good.

[Tony C]

[gjw100]

I hadn't heard of Todd Sickafoose, Tony, but I've been listening to 'Tiny Resistors' this evening and have to agree that it's very good indeed. Thanks for highlighting it.

The Yussef Kamaal album has been a favourite of mine for a while now and you probably won't be surprised to hear that it's on Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label. Since 'Black Focus' both Yussef Dayes and Kamaal Williams have released albums under their own names that are equally as good, and Dayes also recorded an album with Tom Misch last year that is worth you checking out.

This is 'Salaam' from keyboard-player Williams album 'The Return' (2018), with Pete Martin bass and Joshua McKenzie drums.

[gjw100]

‘Odyssey’ from the Yussef Dayes Trio live album ‘Welcome To The Hills’ that was released earlier this year. Featuring Dayes on drums, Rocco Palladino (son of Pino) on bass and Charlie Stacey keyboards.

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‘Heritage’ from the 2013 album ‘Isle Of Magic’ by MopMop (Italian drummer/producer Andrea Benini), with UK-based Trinidadian poet Anthony Joseph vocals, Alex Trebo keyboards, Pasquale Mirra vibraphone/marimba, Bruno Briscik bass, Danilo Mineo percussion and Benini drums.

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‘Epiphany’ from the 2016 album ‘We Be All Africans’ by Idris Ackamoor And The Pyramids, featuring Ackamoor on alto saxophone and keyboards, Sandra Poindexter violin, Kimathi Asante electric bass, Heshima Mark Williams acoustic bass, Babatunde Lea drums/percussion and Max Weissenfeldt percussion.

[gjw100]

‘Journey Through Time’ from the 2011 album ‘Flight Of The Ancients’ by Australian band the Shaolin Afronauts, with Chris Weber trumpet, Chris Soole alto saxophone, Jon Hunt baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, Adam Page tenor saxophone, Dylan Marshall guitar, Kahil Nayton guitar, Lachlan Ridge guitar, Ross McHenry bass, Kevin van der Zwaag drums, David van der Zwaag percussion, Tim Wilsdon percussion.

[gjw100]

Spotify playlist OTF Jazz #5 is now available.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2C...155fc0e47942ea

[Tony C]

That’s great work. Downloading it right now.

[gjw100]

‘Sais (Egypt)’ from Lonnie Liston Smith’s 1974 album ‘Cosmic Funk’, with Smith on keyboards, George Barron soprano saxophone, Al Anderson bass, Art Gore drums and Lawrence Killian percussion.

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‘Carlos II’ from the 1973 album ‘Love From The Sun’ by drummer Norman Connors, with Carlos Garnett soprano saxophone, Gary Bartz alto saxophone, Eddie Henderson trumpet, Herbie Hancock electric piano, Buster Williams bass, Kenneth Nash percussion and Bill Summers percussion.

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‘Black Renaissance’ from the 1977 album ‘Body Mind And Spirit’ by Harry Whitaker’s Black Renaissance, with Whitaker on piano, Woody Shaw trumpet, David Schnitter tenor saxophone, Azar Lawrence tenor/soprano saxophones, Buster Williams bass, Billy Hart drums, Earl Bennett percussion and Mtume percussion.

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'Ulla / Trance' from the Steve Kuhn Trio's 1986 album 'Life's Magic', recorded live at the Village Vanguard in March of that year, with Kuhn on piano, Ron Carter bass and Al Foster drums. An appropriate venue given that the interplay of the three musicians here is on a par with the Bill Evans Trio at their finest.

[gjw100]

‘Time To Go’ from Steve Kuhn’s self-titled 1971 album, with Billy Cobham drums, Ron Carter bass, Airto Moreira percussion, a string quarter arranged and conducted by Gary McFarland and Kuhn on electric piano and vocals. His voice is not the strongest to put it mildly, but there is an understated charm to this recording that I’ve always liked.

[gjw100]

Steve Kuhn and Gary McFarland had worked together four years previously on ‘The October Suite’ from 1967. This is ‘Childhood Dreams’ with McFarland again on arranging/conducting duties, Kuhn piano, Ron Carter bass, Corky Hale harp and a small woodwind section. The album cover is an interesting one – McFarland in front with his black polo-neck and lit cigarette the very epitome of mid-60's cool, and Kuhn hovering over his left shoulder like a photo-bombing bank-manager played by Stephen Merchant.

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The title track from drummer Quin Kirchner’s 2020 album ‘The Shadows And The Light’, with Nate Lepine tenor saxophone and flute, Nick Mazzarella alto saxophone, Jason Stein bass clarinet, Nick Broste trombone, Rob Clearfield keyboards and Matt Ulery bass.

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‘Puls’ from the Tingvall Trio’s 2020 album ‘Dance’, with Martin Tingvall piano, Omar Rodriguez Calvo bass and Jurgen Spiegel drums.

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‘Source’ from guitarist Tom Guarna’s 2020 album ‘Spirit Science’, with Ben Wendel tenor saxophone, Aaron Parks piano, Joe Martin bass and Justin Faulkner drums.

[gjw100]

The title track from Dinosaur’s 2020 album ‘To The Earth’, with Elliot Galvin piano/synthesizer, Laura Jurd trumpet, flugelhorn and tenor horn, Conor Chaplin bass and Corrie Dick drums.

[gjw100]

‘Callisto’ from Aaron Burnett And The Big Machine’s 2020 album ‘Jupiter Conjunct’, with Burnett on tenor saxophone, Adam O’Farrill trumpet, Joel Ross vibraphone, Nick Jozwiak bass and Kush Abadey drums.

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‘Balance’ from the self-titled 2018 album by Scopes – Ben van Gelder alto saxophone, Tony Tixier piano/synthesizer, Tom Berkman bass and Mathias Ruppnig drums.

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The title track from the effortlessly cool Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet’s 2019 album ‘When Angels Fall’, with Mazolewski on bass, Joanna Duda electric piano, Marek Pospieszalski tenor saxophone, Oskar Torok trumpet and Oba Janicki drums.

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‘Origine’ from Jacques Kuba Segun’s 2019 album ‘Migration’, with Seguin on trumpet, Yannick Rieu tenor saxophone, Olivier Salazar vibraphone, Jean-Michel Pilc piano, Adrian Vedady bass and Kevin Warren drums.

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‘Campinas’ from the 2019 album ‘The Hope I Hold’ by Ryan Keberle And Catharsis, with Camila Meza guitar/vocals, Scott Robinson tenor saxophone, Jorge Roeder bass, Eric Doob drums and Keberle trombone/keyboards.