A Jazz Thread

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‘Grains Of Sand’ from the 2021 album ‘Songs For Harry S. Truman’ by Finnish band Uxila Exile – Ilkka Uksila vibraphone, Tomi Nikku trumpet, Joonas Tuuri bass and Ville Luukkonen drums.

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Spotify playlist OTF Jazz #10 is now available.



https://open.spotify.com/playlist/24...c925fcb99f4373

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‘You Can’t Wear A Cape Every Day’ from the 2017 album ‘Finding The Balance’ by the Paul Williamson Quintet, with Williamson on trumpet, Jamie Oehlers tenor saxophone, Andrea Keller piano, Christopher Hale bass and James McLean drums.

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‘U-Turn’ from drummer Luke Bainbridge’s 2021 album ‘Surface Tension’, with Kieran McLeod trombone, Ralph Wyld vibraphone and Huw Williams bass.

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‘Anoxia’ from the Bodo Maier Jazz Quintet’s 2020 album ‘Approaching Change’, with Maier on trumpet, Max Treutner tenor saxophone, Matthieu Trovato piano, Roberto Koch bass and Florian Haas drums.

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From Booker Ervin’s 1976 album ‘Back From The Gig’, a Blue Note compilation of previously unreleased material, this is a 1968 version of Woody Shaw’s ‘Capricornian Way’, with Ervin on tenor saxophone, Shaw on trumpet, Kenny Barron piano, Jan Arnett bass and Billy Higgins drums.

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‘Pisces On The Cusp’ from tenor saxophonist David Young’s self-titled 1971 album, with Virgin Jones trumpet, Sonny Fortune flute, Harold Mabern piano, Richard Davis bass and Idris Muhammed drums.

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The title track from the 1969 album ‘Seeds’ by the Sahib Shihab Quintet – Shihab on baritone saxophone, Francy Boland piano, Jimmy Woode bass, Kenny Clarke drums and, on percussion, Fats Sadi, whose name in the credits always cheers me enormously.

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‘Forever Presence Pt 2’ from Jelly Cleaver’s new EP ‘Forever Presence’, featuring Cleaver vocals/guitar/percussion, Lorenz Okello-Osengor keyboards, James Akers tenor saxophone, Hamish Nockles-Moore bass, Katie Moderly cello and Tash Keary drums/percussion.

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‘I Hear You, I See You’ from Scrimshire’s 2021 album ‘Nothing Feels Like Everything’, with Nat Birchall soprano saxophone, Faye Houston vocals and Adam Scrimshire keyboards/percussion.

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‘And When I Die’ from Christian Euman’s 2020 album ‘Allemong’, with Euman on drums and vocals, Ido Meshulam trombone and bass trumpet, Daniel Rotam soprano saxophone, Miro Sprague keyboards, Alex Boneham bass, Michael Mayo vocals and Erin Bentlage vocals.

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Taken from his 2018 album ‘Life I Know’, this is British guitarist Ant Law’s beautiful solo guitar version of the Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley classic ‘Pure Imagination’ from the 1971 musical ‘Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory’.

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‘Arches’ from pianist Tom Taylor’s 2020 album ‘First Light’, with alto saxophonist Matthew Herd.

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‘Journey’s End’ from Espen Berg’s 2019 solo piano album ‘Noctilucent’.

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‘Come Sunrise’ from bassist Cecil McBee’s 1979 album ‘Alternate Spaces’, with Joe Gardner trumpet, Chico Freeman soprano saxophone and flute, Don Pullen piano and Allen Nelson drums.

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‘Heads Up! Feet Down!’ from Jimmy Heath’s 1973 album ‘Love And Understanding’, with Heath on tenor saxophone, Curtis Fuller trombone, Stanley Cowell piano, Bob Cranshaw bass and Billy Higgins drums.

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The title track from the 1975 album ‘New York Calling’ by Jackie McLean and the Cosmic Brotherhood, with McLean on alto saxophone, Rene McLean tenor saxophone, Billy Skinner trumpet, Billy Gault piano, James Benjamin bass and Michael Carvin drums.

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A BBC ‘Jazz 625’ performance of ‘Othello’ from the 1970 album ‘Purcell Variations’ by the Johnny Scott Quintet – Scott on flute, Duncan Lamont bass clarinet, David Snell harp, Arthur Watts bass and Barry Morgan drums.

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The title track from the 1970 album ‘Humming Bird’ by tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, with Kenny Wheeler trumpet, Dave Horler trombone, Alan Branscombe piano, Kenny Napper bass and Benny Goodman drums.

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‘Give Me Some’ from flautist Jeremy Steig’s 1971 album ‘Energy’, with Jan Hammer electric piano, Gene Perla bass and Don Alias drums/percussion.

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‘Mistakes’ from the self-titled 2013 12” release by Ikestra – Anna Stott vocals, Tom Henry keyboards, Craig Scott guitar, Joe Harris guitar, Henry Guy bass, Sam Gardner drums and Sam Bell percussion.

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‘Mirrors’ from the Marc Buronfosse Sound Quartet’s 2010 album ‘Face The Music’, with Buronfosse on bass, Benjamin Moussay piano/keyboards, Jean-Charles Richard soprano saxophone and bansuri, and Antoine Banville drums/percussion.

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‘State Of Affairs’ from drummer Jonas Sorgenfei’s 2021 album ‘Elephants Marching On’, with Wanja Slavin soprano saxophone and synthesizer, Rainer Bohm piano and Matthias Akeo Nowak bass.

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‘Lullaby For Dewi’ from the self-titled 1973 album by Charlie Mariano and the Chris Hinze Rhythm Combination, with Mariano on soprano saxophone, Hinze on flute, Wim Stolwyk electric piano, Roger Cook bass and Jimm Chaaperoe drums. The album was re-titled ‘Blue Stone for a 1995 reissue.

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The title track from alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley’s 1973 album ‘Inside Straight’, with Nat Adderley cornet, Hal Galper electric piano, Walter Booker bass and Roy McCurdy drums.