A Jazz Thread

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‘Minor Impulse’ from John Stubblefield’s 1977 album ‘Prelude’, with Stubblefield on tenor saxophone, Cecil Bridgewater trumpet, Onaje Allan Gumbs piano, Cecil McBee bass, Joe Chambers drums and Mtume percussion.

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‘Arjen’s Bag’ from John McLaughlin’s 1969 debut solo album ‘Extrapolation’, with John Surman baritone saxophone, Brian Odgers bass and Tony Oxley drums.

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‘John McLaughlin’ from ‘Bitches Brew’ (1970), a track written by Miles, although he doesn’t actually play on it. Featuring McLaughlin on guitar of course, what is generally thought to be Chick Corea on electric piano (one of three keyboard players on the 'Bitches Brew' sessions), Bennie Maupin bass clarinet, Harvey Brooks bass and either Jack DeJohnette or Lenny White on drums (or maybe both, given producer/engineer Teo Macero’s practice of splicing different snippets together).

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‘Every Tear From Every Eye’ from the 1978 album ‘Electric Guitarist, with David Sanborn alto saxophone, Patrice Rushen electric piano, Alphonso Johnson bass and Tony Smith drums. I love the picture of the young John on the cover with his business card – Johnny McLaughlin, Electric Guitarist. Railway Cuttings, Sunnyside, Yorkshire.

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‘Agangatolu’ from the 2021 album ‘Laroye’ by Abase (aka Hungarian producer and multi-instrumentalist Szabolcs Bognar), with Fanni Zahar flute, Antonio Loureiro vibraphone, Jorge Dubman drums, Jadson Xabla lead vocals/percussion, Karol Freitas backing vocals and Gabriel Santana percussion/vocals.

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‘The Pit And The Beggar’ from Apifera’s 2021 album ‘Overstand’, with Nital Hershkovitz keyboards, Yuval Havkin keyboards, Yonatan Albalak bass and Amir Bresler drums.

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‘Indigo Meadow’ from the 2021 album ‘Spacelab And Strings’ by pianist Nikolaj Hess, with Caecile Balling violin, Christian Ellegaard violin, Jakub Lutzen viola, Josefine Opsahl cello, A.C Christensen bass and Mikkel Hess drums.

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‘Ridin’ To Dreamsville’ from pianist Andreas Feith’s 2020 album ‘Surviving Flower’, with Lutz Hafner tenor saxophone, Matin Gjakonovski bass and Silvio Morger drums.

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‘My Ninja Way’ from Friendly’s 2021 album ‘Friendly Fire’, with Zohar Amar tenor saxophone, Noam Borns piano, Daniel Ashkenazy bass and Shai Yuval drums.

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‘Duuzh’ from Nortonk’s self-titled 2021 album, featuring Thomas Killackey trumpet, Gideon Forbes alto saxophone, Stephen Pale bass and Steven Crammer drums.

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‘Concerto For Billy The Kid’ from composer George Russell’s 1957 album ‘The Jazz Workshop’, with Bill Evans piano, Art Farmer trumpet, Hal McKusick alto saxophone, Barry Galbraith guitar, Milt Hinton bass and Paul Motian drums.

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‘Silence’ from Charlie Haden and Carla Bley’s 1983 album ‘The Ballad Of The Fallen’, with Haden on bass, Bley on piano, Steve Slagle alto/soprano saxophones, Dewey Redman tenor saxophone, Michael Mantler trumpet, Don Cherry pocket trumpet, Gary Valente trombone, Jack Jeffers tuba, Sharon Freemn French horn, Mick Goodrick guitar and Paul Motian drums/percussion.

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‘Folly Suite’ from trumpeter/composer Michael Mantler’s 2021 ECM album ‘Coda: Orchestral Suites’, with Bjarne Roupe guitar, Max Kanzler vibraphone and David Helbock piano, with orchestra conducted by Christoph Cech.

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The late Donny Hathaway is quite rightly best-known as a singer on a par with Stevie, Marvin and the other greats of his era. His ability as a pianist is less celebrated, but he was a very fine player who could easily have made a career as a musician. This is the instrumental track ‘Valdez In The Country’ from his 1973 album ‘Extension Of A Man’, with Hathaway on electric piano, Cornell Dupree guitar, Keith Loving guitar, Willie Weeks bass, Ray Lucas drums and Ralph McDonald percussion.

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A pleasing version of Freddie Hubbard’s ‘Red Clay’ from the now almost-forgotten guitarist Jack Wilkins, taken from his 1976 album ‘Windows’, featuring Mike Moore on bass and Bill Goodwin drums.

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‘Fenway Funk’ from vibraphonist Bobby Paunetto’s 1975 album ‘Paunetto’s Point’, with Tom Harrell trumpet, Ed Byrne trombone, Ronnie Cuber, Todd Anderson, Bill Drewes and Mario Rivero saxophones, John Marrero electric piano, Andy Gonzalez bass, Tom Sala drums, Milton Cardona, Manny Oquendo, Jerry Gonzalez and Fred Munar percussion.

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The title track from the 2018 album ‘Salvation’ by Wanja Slavin’s Lotus Eaters, with Slavin on alto saxophone, Philipp Gropper tenor saxophone, Tom Arthurs trumpet, Rainer Bohm piano, Andreas Lane bass and Tobias Backhaus drums.

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‘Bold’ from Frank Woeste’s 2020 album ‘Pocket Symphony II’, with Woeste on keyboards, Eric Vloieman trumpet, Robinson Khoury trombone, Julien Herne bass, Stephane Galland drums and the Children’s Choir Maitrise Des Haute-de-Seine.

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‘Unity’ from the 2021 album ‘Dialogues’ by pianist Dan Berkson, with Alam Nathoo tenor saxophone, Magnus Pickering trumpet, Andrea Di Biase bass, Jon Scott drums and Daniel Sadownick percussion.

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thanks so much for those Jimmy Heath albums gjw. I spent some fine hours with those. And a nice alternative version of “Smiling Billy Suite”.

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‘Scene At The Open Air Market’ from the 1996 debut album ‘Sounds From the Thievery Hi Fi’ by Thievery Corporation (Rob Garza and Eric Hilton), staples of the late 90’s Ibiza chill-out compilation CD boom. Sure, it’s a fairly lightweight piece of fluff, but on a grey December morning it will do just fine.

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‘Bernard’s Shuffle’ a 1998 track by Mr Scruff (Andrew Carthy)’ featuring Bernard Moss on flute. I’ve never known whether the title of the track referred to Moss or to legendary drummer Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie, who has employed the famous ‘Purdie Shuffle’ on so many of the sessions that he has played on since the mid-60's.

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‘Casablanca’ a 1998 track by Force and Paul (David Muallem and Paul Beller). Another that only appeared on one of the excellent Compost record label’s ‘Future Sounds Of Jazz’ compilation albums.

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‘Grandfather’s Garden’ from the 1975 album ‘Give Me A Double’ by the Slide Hampton / Joe Haider Orchestra, with Hampton on trombone, Haider on piano, Dexter Gordon tenor saxophone, Ferdinand Povel flute and alto saxophone, Andy Scherrer tenor/soprano saxophones, Bob Burgess trombone, Eric Van Lier tuba and bass trombone, Aick Van Rooyen, Benny Bailey and Idress Sulieman trumpets, Isla Eckinger bass and Billy Brooks drums.

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‘Strzez Sie Szczezui’ from tenor saxophonist Jan Ptaszyn Wroblewski’s 1976 album ‘Skleroptak’ with the BRT Jazz Orchestra – Edmond Harnie, Janot Morales and Nick Fisette trumpets, Eddy De Vos, Guy Dossche, Jose Paessens and Vic Ingleveld saxophones, Eddy Verdonck, Frans Van Dijck and Paul Bourdiandhy trombones, Freddy Sunder guitar, Tony Bauwens piano, Fats Sadi vibraphone/percussion, Nick Kletchowsky bass and Van de Walle drums.