A Jazz Thread

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‘Double Rainbow’ from Antonio Carlos Jobim’s 1980 album ‘Terra Brasilis’ with Jobim on piano, Bucky Pizzarelli guitar, Bob Cranshaw bass, Pascoal Meirelles drums and Rubens Bassini percussion, with a typically lush orchestral arrangement by Claus Ogerman.

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‘Hs2’ from the 2020 album ‘Paradigm Shifting’ by Vertaal (Theo Howard and Ajit Gill), with Loren Hignell tenor saxophone, Luca Gianassi guitar, Severin Bruhin bass and Simon Todd percussion.

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‘Angels In Space’ from Tommaso Cappellato’s 2021 album ‘Pioneered’, with Cappelatto on drums, percussion and synthesizers and Michael Blake tenor saxophone.

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‘All We Need’ from the 2020 album ‘Yellow’ by Swiss band Blaer – Nils Fisher alto saxophone and bass clarinet, Claudio Von Arx tenor saxophone, Maja Nydegger piano, Simon Iten bass and Philippe Ducommun drums.

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In 1976 Milton Nascimento wrote and recorded the score for a contemporary ballet entitled ‘Maria Maria’. The music wasn’t made available commercially until 2019, when the excellent Far Out label put together a retrospective album that included a number of previously unreleased pieces. This is ‘A Chamade’, with Nascimento on vocals/guitar and Nana Vasconcelos percussion, vocals and effects.

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The trio Codona recorded three great albums for ECM between 1978 and 1982 and of course, being ECM, none of it is on YouTube. This is ‘Moondog’, taken from a 1978 live performance in Hamburg, with Don Cherry trumpet/percussion, Collin Walcott sitar/percussion and Nana Vasconcelos vocals/percussion.

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‘Baiao Do Acordar’ from the self-titled 1975 album by Nana Vasconcelos (vocals/percussion), Nelson Angelo guitar/vocals and Novelli (Djair de Barros e Silva) bass, guitar, piano and vocals.

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‘Ballad For Bobby Hutcherson’ from the 1977 album ‘Love Is Where The Spirit Lies’ by Lon Moshe and Southern Freedom Arkestra, with Moshe on vibraphone/marimba, Ben Wilson vibraphone, Marvin Daniels trumpet/flugelhorn, Atiba Rudy Tyson piano, Melvin Glover guitar, Freddie Williams bass and Hugh Peterson drums.

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‘Clockwork Of The Spirits’ from Bobby Hutcherson’s 1971 album ‘Head On’, with Hutcherson on vibraphone, Harold Land tenor saxophone, Fred Jackson flute, Oscar Brashear trumpet, Louis Spears trombone, Charles Owens II and Herman Riley reeds, Todd Cochran piano, James Leary bass and Ndugu Chancler drums.

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Finally, something of a curiosity from trumpeter Dizzy Reece’s 1977 album ‘Possession, Exorcism, Peace’, a version of the ‘Theme From ‘The Exorcist’ (i.e., Mike Oldfield’s main theme from ‘Tubular Bells’), with Dick Meldonian alto saxophone and flute, Richie Beirach piano, Frank Tusa bass, Jeff Williams drums and Pablito Rolari percussion.

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Pat Martino, who died last week at the age of 77, was often referred to as ‘the guitarist’s guitarist’, a hugely talented musician who rarely seemed to receive but fully deserved recognition as one of the finest players of the last 50 years. What was most astonishing about Martino was that in 1980, following major surgery to relieve the effects of a brain haemorrhage, he was left with almost total amnesia, no knowledge of his previous career and completely unable to play the guitar. He was forced to relearn everything from scratch (helped by listening to his old records), and eventually released his comeback album, the appropriately titled ‘The Return’, in 1987. This ‘Cisco’ from his 1967 debut album ‘El Hombre’, recorded when he was just 22, with Danny Turner flute, Trudy Pitts organ, Mitch Fine drums and Vance Anderson percussion.

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The title track from Martino’s 1976 album ‘Joyous Lake’, with Delmar Brown keyboards, Mark Leonard bass and Kenwood Dennard drums.

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‘Earthlings’ from the 2003 album ‘Think Tank’, with Joe Lovano tenor saxophone, Gonzalo Rubalcaba piano, Christian McBride bass and Lewis Nash drums.

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Dave Brubeck’s ‘In Your Own Sweet Way’ from ‘Martino’s final album, ‘Formidable’, recorded and released in 2017, just a few months before he retired from music due to continuing ill-health. Featuring Pat Bianchi organ and Carmen Intorre drums.

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‘Five Four And Three’ from alto saxophonist Lee Konitz’s 1977 album ‘Stereokonitz’, with Enrico Rava trumpet, Franco D’Andrea piano, Giovanni Tommaso bass and Gege Munari drums. Also of interest here is Konitz’s use of the Selmer varitone (an early octave divider / effects box for the saxophone that never really took off) to double up his sound - perhaps the origin of the album title.

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‘Como En Vietnam’ from the self-titled 1971 album by Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett, with Burton on vibraphone, Jarrett soprano saxophone and piano, Sam Brown guitar, Steve Swallow bass an Bill Goodwin drums.

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‘Spring’ from drummer/percussionist Dom Um Romao’s 1976 album ‘Hotmosphere’, with Alan Rubin and Claudio Roditi trumpets, Jack Jeffries and Tom Malone trombones, Ronnie Cuber baritone saxophone, Sonny Fortune tenor saxophone, Mauricio Smith soprano saxophone/flute/clarinet, Lou Del Gatto flute/clarinet, Ricardo Peixoto guitar, Dom Salvador piano, Ron Carter bass and Steve Kroon percussion.

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‘Grasshopper’ from the 2021 album ‘Fumitsuke’ by Polish pianist Joanna Duda, with Max Mucha bass/electronics and Michael Bryndal drums/electronics.

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‘Spacewalk’ a 2021 single by the H Zettrio – Masayuki Hizumi piano, Masahiro Nirehara bass and Kou drums.

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‘The Rat’, a 2021 single by pianist Yoni Mayraz, with Itamar Borochov trumpet, Shay Hazan bass and Noam Cherchie drums.

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‘Remembrance Of Past Feeling’ from the 1988 album ‘Jazz Hour’ by the Lyubomir Denev Jazz Trio from Bulgaria, featuring Denev on piano, Todor Shishkov bass and Boris Dinev drums, with Petko Tomanov flute.

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‘I Walk Around The Garden’ from the 1977 album ‘Lyrical Moods’ by the Ukrainian horn player Valeriy Kolesnikov’s Quartet, with Vyacheslav Novikov piano, Vladimir Molotkov guitar/bass, Aleksandr Christidis drums and Kolesnikov on flugelhorn/tuba.

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‘Pow Wow’ from Swedish band Rena Rama’s 1973 album ‘Jazz I Sverige – 73', with Lennart Aberg tenor/soprano saxophones and flute, Bobo Stenson piano and electric piano, Palle Danielsson bass and Bengt Berger drums.

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‘Fristil’ the title track from the 2021 album by Norwegian band Fri Steel, with Lars Horntveth bass clarinet, baritone saxophone and bass saxophone, Mira Thiruchelvam flute, Kristin Austreid horns, Oystein Braut pedal steel guitar, Njal Clemensen guitar, Omar Emanuel Johnsen synthesizer and Arne Sandborg bass.

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‘Bumper Cars’ from keyboard-player Alfa Mist’s forthcoming ‘Two For Mistakes’ EP, with Jamie Leeming guitar, Johnny Woodham trumpet, Samuel Rapley bass clarinet, Kaya Thomas-Dyke bass, Jas Kayser drums, Junior Alli-Balogun percussion, Simmy Singh violin, Laura senior violin, Lucy Nolan viola and Peggy Nolan cello.