A Jazz Thread

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‘Heavy Legs’ from the 1963 album ‘Little Johnny C’ by trumpeter Johnny Coles, with Joe Henderson tenor saxophone, Leo Wright alto saxophone, Duke Pearson piano, Bob Crenshaw bass and Pete La Roca drums.

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‘Isotope’ from Joe Henderson’s 1966 album ‘Inner Urge’, with Henderson on tenor saxophone, McCoy Tyner piano, Bob Crenshaw bass and Elvin Jones drums.

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The full steam ahead title track from the 1963 album ‘Katanga!’ by tenor saxophonist Curtis Amy and trumpeter Dupree Bolton, a pair who are not as celebrated as they ought to be. With Jack Wilson piano, Vic Gaskin bass and Doug Sides drums.

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‘Tanya’ from tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon’s 1965 album ‘One Flight Up’, with Donald Byrd trumpet, Kenny Drew piano, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen bass and Art Taylor drums.

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‘Night Watch’ from trumpeter Kenny Dorham’s 1965 album ‘Trompeta Toccata’, with Joe Henderson tenor saxophone, Tommy Flanagan piano, Richard Davis bass and Albert Heath drums.

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Drummer Norman Connors’ ‘Slewfoot’ from 1974 was something of a transition album, containing as it did a not wholly successful mix of the spiritual jazz sounds of his first three albums and the disco/funk material that brought him more commercial success in the years that followed. This is ‘Mother Of The Future’, with Eddie Henderson trumpet, Carlos Garnett tenor saxophone, Gary Bartz alto/soprano saxophones, Hubert Laws flute, Jean Carn vocals, Elmer Gibson electric piano, Ron Carter bass, Dom Um Romao percussion and Skip Drinkwater percussion.

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‘Cabral’ from percussionist James ‘Mtume’ Forman’s ‘Rebirth Cycle’, recorded in 1974 but not released until 1977. Featuring Azar Lawrence soprano saxophone, John Stubblefield tenor saxophone, Jimmy Heath flute, Jean Carn vocals, Reggie Lucas guitar, Stanley Cowell piano, Leroy Jenkins violin, Diedre Johnson cello, Buster Williams bass, Cecil McBee bass, Andrei Strobert drums and Billy Hart drums.

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‘Sound Of Silents’ from Sonny Fortune’s 1974 album ‘Long Before Our Mothers Cried’, with Fortune on alto/soprano saxophones and flute, Charles Sullivan trumpet, Stanley Cowell electric piano, Wayne Dockery bass, Chip Lyle drums, Mario Munoz percussionand Richie Pablo Landrum percussion.

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An Andrew Hill feature is long overdue. This is ‘Land Of Nod’ from the 1964 album ‘Black Fire’, featuring Hill on piano, Joe Henderson tenor saxophone, Richard Davis bass and Roy Haynes drums.

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‘Bayou Red’ from the 1968 album ‘Grass Roots’, with Hill on piano, Lee Morgan trumpet, Booker Ervin tenor saxophone, Ron Carter bass and Freddie Waits drums.

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The title track from ‘Passing Ships’, a 2003 compilation of previously unreleased material from 1969, featuring Andrew Hill on piano, Joe Farrell tenor/soprano saxophones, Woody Shaw trumpet, Dizzy Reece trumpet, Bob Northern French horn, Julian Priester trombone, Howard Johnson tuba and bass clarinet, Ron Carter bass and Lenny White drums.

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‘Two Lullabies’ from ‘Lift Every Voice’ (1970), featuring Andrew Hill on piano, Woody Shaw trumpet, Carlos Garnett tenor saxophone, Richard Davis bass, Freddie Waits drums, Lawrence Marshall choir master and vocals, with Antenett Goodman Ray, Benjamin Carter, Gail Nelson, Joan Johnson, La Reine La Mar and Ron Steward vocals.

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‘Hush/Quiet’ from the 2009 album ‘About A Silent Way – The Complete Studio Sessions’ by Italian producer Martux_M (Mauricio Martusciello), featuring Fabrizio Bosso trumpet/electronics, Francesco Bearzatti tenor saxophone, clarinet and electronics, Eivind Aarset guitar/electronics and Aldo Vigorito bass.

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‘Less’ from Jacek Kochan’s 2003 album ‘New Expensive Head’, with Kochan on drums, bass, keyboards and electronics, Eivind Aarset guitar/effects, Cuong Vu trumpet/effects and Eric ‘Skerik’ Walton tenor saxophone/effects.

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‘Seven Inches Of Rain’ from the 2022 album ‘The Bow Maker’ by Dai Fujikura and Jan Bang, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer on trumpet, Eivind Aarset guitar/electronics, Fujikura synthesizers and Bang samples/programming.

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‘Loss Of Innocence’ from pianist Luke Carlos O’Reilly’s 2021 album ‘I Too Sing America: A Black Man’s Diary’, featuring Caleb Wheeler Curtis alto saxophone, David Gibson trombone, Josh Evans trumpet, Nimrod Elab Speaks bass and Anwar Marshall drums.

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‘Han’ from alto saxophonist Jim Snidero’s 2020 album ‘Project K’, featuring Dave Douglas trumpet, Orrin Evans piano, Do Yeon Kim gayageum, Linda May Han Oh bass and Rudy Royston drums.

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‘Shorter Day (For Wayne Shorter)’ from the 2021 album ‘Q Vision’ by drummer Quincy Davis, with Philip Dizack trumpet, Myron Walden alto saxophone, JD Allen tenor saxophone, Peter Bernstein guitar, Adam Birnbaum piano and Richie Goods bass.

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‘Long Before Words’ from Italian pianist Emanuele Filippi’s 20202 album ‘Musica Fragile’, with Nicola Caminiti alto saxophone, Cosimo Boni trumpet, Marco Boltelli guitar and Roberto Giaquinto drums.

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‘The Far Away Ones’ from Scottish tenor saxophonist Matt Carmichael’s 2022 album ‘Marram’, with Charlie Stewart violin, Fergus McCreadie piano, Ali Watson bass and Tom Potter drums.

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‘Leap Of Faith’ from the 2017 album ‘Moment Frozen’ by alto saxophonist Dee Byrne’s Entropi, with Andre Canniere trumpet, Rebecca Nash piano, Olie Brice bass and Matt Fisher drums.

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‘Spring Song’ from bassist Henry Franklin’s 1977 album ‘Tribal Dance’, featuring Charles Owens tenor saxophone, English horn and flute, Jerry Rush trumpet, Al Hall Jr. trombone, Kenneth Climax guitar, Dwight Dickerson piano and Woody ‘Sonship’ Theus drums.

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‘Miroslav’s Tune’, a track from the recording sessions for Weather Report’s 1974 ‘Mysterious Traveller’ that didn’t make the original album and only appeared as a bonus track on a 1997 Japanese re-release. With Wayne Shorter soprano saxophone, Joe Zawinul keyboards, Miroslav Vitous bass, Ishmael Wilburn drums, Skip Hadden drums and Dom Um Romao percussion.

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‘Trapeze’ from the self-titled 1975 album by Noel McGhie’s Space Spies – Jorge Joao soprano/alto saxophones, Itaru Oki trumpet, Georges Edouard Nouel electric piano, Louis Xavier bass and Noel McGhie drums/percussion.

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GJW, been checking out James Brandon Lewis at all?