A Jazz Thread

[ad hoc]

This doesn't exactly fit with most of the thread, but i heard it today for the very first time and I loved it (I include it here because most people would stick Nina Simone, rightly or wrongly, under the heading of jazz)

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‘Catawba’ from the 2019 self-titled album by tenor saxophonist Timo Lassy and drummer/percussionist Teppu Makynen.

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‘Lost In Transit’ from the self-titled 2020 album by Universal Connection – Martin Speake alto saxophone, Hans Koller piano, Anders Christensen bass and Anders Mogensen drums.

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The title track from the 2021 album ‘Eternal Fiction’ by Mario Rom’s Interzone, with Rom on trumpet, Lukas Kranzelbinder bass and Herbert Pirker drums.

[ad hoc]

Music for today - World Weeps, by Dr Lonnie Smith. RIP

[gjw100]

Great choice ad hoc and, appropriately enough, given that you first suggested creating a Spotify playlist to accompany this thread, the 100th and final track to be added to the latest of them - OTF Jazz #9.




https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2C...7b8d474240470c

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‘Red Kite’ from the 2021 album ‘Animal Heart’ by This Is Pan – Matthias Kohler alto saxophone, Lukas Thoeni trumpet, Dave Gisler guitar, Andre Pousaz bass and Gregor Hilbe drums.

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‘Sojourn’ from the 2017 album ‘Wake Up Call’ by David Weiss and Point Of Departure, with Weiss on trumpet and electric piano, Myron Walden tenor saxophone, Travis Reuter guitar, Matt Clohesy bass and Kush Abadey drums.

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‘November Ghosts’ from Finnish band Alder Ego’s 2021 album ‘III’, featuring Jarno Tikka tenor saxophone, Tomi Nikku trumpet, Nathan Francis bass and Joonas Leppanen drums.

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‘Jana’ from the Arild Andersen Quartet’s 1978 album ‘Green Shading Into Blue’, with Andersen on bass, Lars Jansson keyboards, Juhani Aaltonen soprano saxophone and Pal Thowsen drums/percussion.

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‘Simul Synchrone’ from the 1976 album ‘The Door Is Open’ by Dutch keyboard player Jasper Van’t Hof’s Pork Pie band, with Charlie Mariano saxophones, Philip Catherine guitars, Bo Stief bass and John Marshall drums.

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‘L’Harmoniosa Simfonia D’un Cos Part 1’ from the 1975 album ‘Diumerge’ by Spanish band Companyia Electrica Dharma, featuring Joan Fortuny soprano saxophone, Jordi Soley keyboards, Esteve Fortuny guitar, Carles Vidal bass and Josep Fortuny drums/percussion.

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The title track from the 1976 album ‘Free Spirits’ by the Mary Lou Williams Trio, with Williams on piano, Buster Williams bass and Mickey Roker drums.

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‘A Letter To Mom’ from the 1974 album ‘The Waterbearers’ by pianist Ron Burton and drummer John Lewis aka The Cosmic Twins.

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The title track from pianist Fumio Karashima’s 1976 album ‘Piranha’, with Isao Suzuki bass and Jimmy Hopps drums.

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‘Fall Out’ from pianist John Turville’s 2019 album ‘Head First’, with Robbie Robson trumpet, Julian Arguelles tenor saxophone, Dave Whitford bass and James Maddren drums.

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‘Early Hours’ from the 2020 album ‘Dusk’ by trumpeter James Copus, with Tom Cawley piano, Conor Chaplin bass and Jason Brown drums.

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‘Mountain Song’ from Menagerie’s 2017 album ‘The Arrow Of Time’, featuring Mark Fitzgibbon piano, Phil Noy soprano/tenor saxophones, Ross Irwin trumpet, Michael Meagher bass, Rory McDougall drums and Javier Fredes percussion.

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‘Kahkoon’ from Marcelo Monteiro’s 2021 album ‘Deyeh’, with Monteiro on tenor saxophone and flute, Marcelo Castilha keyboards, Daniel Amorin bass, Mauricio Caetano drums and Dustavo Souza percussion.

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‘Orangutan’ from drummer Caroline Scott’s 2019 album ‘Khoalesce’, with Duncan Eagles tenor saxophone, John Turville piano and Kevin Glasgow bass.

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‘September Nine’ from the 2021 album ‘Cut Up’ by the Julien Daian Quintet, with Daian on tenor saxophone, Alex Tassel trumpet, Cyril Benhamou flute, Edouard Monnin piano, Tommaso Montagnani bass and Octave Ducasse drums.

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‘Muscle Memory’ from producer and keyboard-player Frederic Robinson’s 2021 EP ‘Hiding Music In Everything’, with drummer Richard Spaven.

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'Treehouse’ from the 2019 EP ‘Binary Diet’ by Hippo – Doug Cave tenor saxophone and keyboards, Henry Binning keboards and Toby Perrett drums.

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‘Alfama’ from the 2020 album ‘Kamade’ by Swiss band Kuma – Arthur Donnot tenor saxophone and effects, Matthieu Llodra keyboards, Fabien Iannone bass and Maxence Sibille drums.

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‘Bury The Corn’ from Belgian avant-garde big band Flat Earth Society’s 2021 album ‘Boggamasta III’. With band leader Peter Vermeersch on bass clarinet, vocals and electronics, Bruno Vansina baritone saxophone and flute, Marti Melia and Michel Mast tenor saxophones, Benjamin Boutreur alto saxophone, Bart Maris trumpet, Pauline leblone trumpet/vocals, Berlinde Deman tuba/vocals, Marc Meeuwissen and Peter Delannove trombones, David Bovee guitar/wlwctronics, Peter Vandenberghe keyboards, Mirko Banovic bass, Teun Verbruggen drums and Wim Segers percussion/vocals.