A Jazz Thread

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‘Pink Pepper’ from the 2020 album ‘Piano Forte Brutto Netto’ by Polish band Pink Freud – Wojciech Mazolewski bass, Karol Gola baritone saxophone, Adam Baron trumpet/electronics and Rafal Klimczuk drums.

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‘Fjord’ from the 2020 album ‘Genius Noci’ by Czech band Fanfan Tulipan – Eliska Vidomus keyboards/kannel/voice, Stepan Zbytovsky flute, Petr Svoboda piano, Pavel Husa bass and Simon Hajdovsky drums, with Oskar Torok trumpet, Radek Dolezal vibraphone and Simon Janak tuba.

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‘Sky Circle’ from Glasshopper’s 2020 album ‘Fortune Rules’ with Jonathan Chung tenor saxophone and effects, James Kitchen guitar and effects, Corrie Dick drums/percussion and Sylvia Silas vocals.

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Charles Mingus Triumph of the Underdog (Documentary)

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One for diggedy derek to start this morning - ‘Copasetic’ from the 2020 album ‘Connect’ by trumpeter Charles Tolliver, playing as well as ever with Jesse Davis alto saxophone, Keith Brown piano and a pretty stellar rhythm section in Buster Williams bass and Lenny White drums.

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‘Relentlessness’ from the 2018 album ‘People Of The Sun’ by Marcus Strickland’s Twi-Life, with Strickland on tenor saxophone, Mitch Henry keyboards, Kyle Miles bass and Charles Haynes drums.

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‘Uvumilivu’ from the 2018 album ‘Warrior For Peace’ by the E.J Strickland Quintet, with Strickland (identical twin of Marcus) on drums, Godwin Louis alto saxophone, Jure Puki tenor saxophone, Taber Gable piano and Joshua Ginsburg bass.

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‘Still (Drifts)’ the beautiful new single from London-based collective Kinkajous, featuring Adrian Cau tenor saxophone, Maria Chiara Argiro piano, Jack Doherty electric piano, Alan Keary violin, Benoit Parmentier drums/synthesizer and Andres Castellanos drums.

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‘Unglued’ the 2020 single from Italian duo 72-Hour Post Fight - Carlo Luciano Porrini (aka Fight Pausa) keyboards/electronics and Luca Bolognese (aka Palazzi D’Oriente) keyboards/electronics, with Adelberto Valsecchi tenor saxophone and Andrea Dissimile drums.

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‘Sanctuary’ from the ‘The Algorithm Smiles Upon You’, the 2021 collaboration between OK DJ/producer Aver and German band Move 78 – Doron Seagal keyboards, Hal Strewe bass and Nir Sabag drums/percussion, with Merav Goldman French horn, Omri Abramov tenor saxophone and Geoff Kernback violin.

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‘Madiba’ from trombonist Ryan Porter’s 2019 album ‘Force For Good’, with Kamasi Washington tenor saxophone, Cameron Graves electric piano, Josef Leimberg trumpet/percussion, Miles Mosley bassand TonyAustin drums.

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The title track from trumpeter Ryan Quigley’s 2016 album ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’, with Quigley on trumpet, Paul Booth tenor saxophone, Steve Hamilton electric piano, Michael Janisch bass and Clarence Penn drums.

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‘Shadows’ from Ollie Howell’s 2017 album ’Self-Identity’, with Duncan Eagles tenor saxophone, Henry Spencer trumpet, Matt Robinson keyboards, Ant Law guitar, Max Luthert bass and Howell drums/electronics.

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‘Changa Chikuyo’ from bassist Larry Ridley’s 1975 album ‘Sum Of the Parts’, with Sonny Fortune flute, Cornell Dupree guitar, Onaje Allan Gumbs keyboards, Grady Tate drums and Crusher Bennett percussion.

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‘Golden Green’ from the 1970 album ‘Astorama’ by Jean-Luc Ponty and Masahiko Satoh, with Ponty on violin, Satoh electric piano, Yoshiaki Masuo guitar, Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson bass and Motohiko Hino drums.

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From the 1971 album ‘Salt Song’, tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine’s version of the Freddie Hubbard tune ‘Gibraltar’, with the kind of all-star line-up that was so typical of a CTI label release from this period – Eric Gale guitar, Richard Tee keyboards, Ron Carter bass, Billy Cobham drums and Airto Moreira percussion.

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I’ve just heard that Rick Laird passed away yesterday at the age of 80. Although he had a solid career before and after the band, he remains best-known as the rock-solid foundation that underpinned the pyrotechnic marvel that was the Mahavishnu Orchestra. This is ‘Sister Andrea’ from the 1973 live album ‘Between Nothingness And Eternity. John McLaughlin guitar, Jan Hammer keyboards, Jerry Goodman violin, Billy Cobham drums and Rick Laird bass.

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‘Outer Surge’ from the 1989 album ‘Soft Focus’ that Laird made with keyboard-player Tom Grant, accompanied by Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone and Ron Steen drums.

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‘Effi’ from the 1968 album ‘Members, Don’t Git weary’ by drummer Max Roach (an album originally name-checked by Tony C a few months back). Featuring Charles Tolliver trumpet, Gary Bartz alto saxophone, Stanley Cowell piano and Jymie Merritt bass.

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The title track from the Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet’s 1964 album ‘Now Jazz Ramwong’, with Mangelsdorff on trombone, Heinz Sauer tenor/soprano saxophones, Gunther Kronberg alto/baritone saxophones, Gunter Lenz bass and Rolf Hubner drums.

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‘Ritual’ from the 1963 album ‘Soviet Jazz Themes’ by the Victor Feldman Allstars – Feldman on vibraphone, Joe Zawinul piano, Nat Adderley cornet, Harold Land tenor saxophone, Bob Whitlock bass and Frank Butler drums.

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I've been really busy and meaning to drop into this thread. Thanks a lot for that Tolliver track gjw!

For a recent small assignment I've been listening to less heralded bebop and hardbop drummers: Louis Hayes and Art Taylor in particular. It's been a delight.

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That sounds an interesting assignment, dd. I’m familiar with Louis Hayes (I posted something of his a few months back), but have never heard of (or knowingly heard) Art Taylor and will have to check him out. Is it in relation to a piece that you are doing for The Wire?

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‘Calling England Home’ from vocalist Anthony Joseph’s recently-released album ‘The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives’ (!!!!), with Jason Yarde alto/baritone saxophones, Denys Baptiste bass clarinet, Thiabault Remy guitar, Florian Pellissier keyboards, Andrew John bass, Rod Youngs drums and Crispin Robinson percussion.

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‘Village Of The Sun’ a 2020 single by Village of The Sun - a one-off collaboration between Simon Ratcliffe of Basement Jaxx, tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd.