A Jazz Thread

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‘The Three Omegas’ from the 2021 album ‘Food For Thought’ by Solstice – Tori Freestone tenor saxophone and flute, Jez Franjs guitar, John Turville keyboards, Brigitte Beraha vocals, Dave Manington bass and George hart drums.

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‘Arctic Sun’ from the Tom Green Septet’s 2019 album ‘Skyline’, featuring Green on trombone, Sam Miles tenor saxophone, Matthew Herd alto/soprano saxophones, James Davison trumpet, Sam Jones piano, Misha Mullov-Abbado bass and Scott Chapman drums.

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‘Walking Over Wave’ from Cuban saxophonist Yosvany Terry’s 2014 album ‘New Throned King’, with Pedro Martinez lead vocals and percussion, Osmany Paredes piano, Yunior Terry bass, Sandy Perez percussion and Roman Diaz percussion.

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‘Congo’ from the 2012 album ‘Ninety Miles Live At Cubadisco’ by the Ninety Miles Projects – Stefon Harris (vibraphone), David Sanchez (tenor saxophone) and Christian Scott (trumpet), with Harold Lopez-Nussa piano, Yandy Martinez Gonzalez bass, Ruy Adrian Lopez-Nussa drums and Edgar Martinez Ochoa percussion.

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‘Tiya Mowa’ from Bokani Dyer’s 2023 album ‘Radio Sechaba’, featuring Dyer on piano and vocals, Lwanda Gogwana trumpet, Reza Khota guitar, Tendai Shoko bass, Tinotenda Dambaneunga drums, Gontse Makhana percussion and Sibusisiwe Dyer backing vocals.

[Tony C]

“The trumpeter Miles Davis once said: “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal,” writing in his memoir that his friend had “knocked me out with his concept of space, his lightness of touch, and the way he phrases notes and chords and passages”.

From the Guardian obituary. Quite a legacy.

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RIP Ahmad Jamal. I’ve enjoyed a lot of his music over the years and I’m a particular fan of his ‘Impulse!’ label recordings from the late 60’s which includes the superb ‘The Awakening’ as well as a couple of great live albums. Nice obituary in the Guardian for an underrated great.

Echoed, Tony. I've just realised that I've never posted anything by Ahmad Jamal on here, a curious but not deliberate omission. So to remedy that, here's a nice version of Herbie's 'Dolphin Dance' from 'The Awakening', with.Jamal on piano, Jamil Nasser bass and Frank Gant drums.

[Tony C]

RIP Ahmad Jamal. I’ve enjoyed a lot of his music over the years and I’m a particular fan of his ‘Impulse!’ label recordings from the late 60’s which includes the superb ‘The Awakening’ as well as a couple of great live albums. Nice obituary in the Guardian for an underrated great.

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/20...t-dies-aged-92

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‘Hold On’ from the 2020 album ‘Wu Hen’ by keyboard-player Kamaal Williams, with Lauren Faith vocals and Alina Bzhezinska harp.

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‘Above The Clouds’ from the Yisrael Trio’s solitary album ‘Genesis’ (2014), a track that caught the attention of Gilles Peterson, who put it on the twelfth of his excellent ‘Brownswood Bubbler’ compilations. Featuring the three Yisrael siblings – Yirmeyahu drums/saxophone, Yah’El keyboards and sister Yehosheba bass/vocals.

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‘Breaking The News’ from the 2009 album ‘Night Time On The Middle Passage’ by Zed-U – Shabaka Hutchings clarinet and tenor saxophone, Tom Skinner drums/keyboard/vocals and Neil Charles bass/synth bass.

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‘En Attendant Le Soleil’ from Hakon Kornstad’s 2009 solo album ‘Dwell Time’, recorded live in Sofienberg Church, Oslo, with Kornstad playing, looping and layering saxophones, flutes and electronics in a series of real time improvisations.

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‘It’s One Of These’

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‘Nu Sha Ni Sha Nu Oss Ra’

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Three tracks this morning from the new ‘London Brew’ album, a tribute to Miles Davis’ ‘Bitches Brew’ that was recorded over the space of three days in December 2020 by a stellar collection of young London-based jazz musicians, most of whom have featured regularly in this thread. The recording process followed the cut and paste blueprint originally set out by Miles and producer Teo Macero on that ground-breaking album, although here the musicians began with samples and loops taken from ‘Bitches Brew’ by DJ Benjie B, which were used as a jumping off points for a number of loose studio jams/improvisations. After the sessions were over, US guitarist/producer/engineer Martin Terefe took the results, found what worked best and edited those performances into the finished article. It’s an astonishingly good album and it will take something exceptional to top this as my album of 2023 (which I realise is a bold claim to be making as early as April). This is ‘Miles Chases New Voodoo In The Church’, featuring Nubya Garcia saxophones/flute, Shabaka Hutchings clarinet/saxophones, Theon Cross tuba, Raven Bush violin/programming, David Okumu guitar, Martin Terefe guitar, Nick Ramm keyboards, Nikolaj Torp Larsen synthesizer/melodica, Tom Herbert bass and Tom Skinner drums/percussion.

[danielmak]

Chris Bierlein's photozine about London Jazz in 1986 might be of some interest to folks who frequent this thread:

https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/engla...ul-bradshaw?ss

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‘Integrate’ from the 2022 album ‘Onwards’ by Asha Parkinson’s Kalpadruma, featuring Parkinson on tenor/soprano saxophones, Olivia Ziani violin, Sam Vincent cello, Andrew Liddell viola, Daniel Swani flute, Josh Short trumpet, Simeon May bass clarinet, Charlie Haywood guitar, Harry Baker piano, Konstantinos Glynos qanun, Harry Pearce bass and Tristan Butler drums.

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‘Animator’ from the 2012 album ‘And In The Night Time She Is There’ by tenor saxophonist Trish Clowes, with Gwilym Simcock piano, Chris Montague guitar, Calum Gorlay bass, James Maddren drums, Thea Spiers violin, Thomas Gould violin, Adam Robinson viola, Heidi Parsons cello and Louise McMonagle cello.

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‘Callow’ from singer Christine Tobin’s 2023 album ‘Returning Weather’, with Cora Venus Lunny violin/viola, David Power uillean pipes and whistles, Phil Robson guitar and electronics and Steve Hamilton piano.

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‘The Webs We Weave / Nocturne’ from the 2011 album ‘Things Will Be’ by Examples of Twelves – James Allsopp bass clarinet, Fulvio Sigurta trumpet, Mark Hanslip tenor saxophone, Catherine Shrubshall clarinet, Matthew Bourne piano, Riaan Vosloo bass and Tim Giles drums.

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‘No Reason’ from the 2020 album ‘Skeleton Blush’ by vocalist Andrew Plummer’s World Sanguine Report, with James Allsopp bass clarinet and baritone saxophone, Alex Bonney trumpet, Matthew Bourne piano/synthesizer, Billy Jenkins guitar, Ruth Goller bass and Tom Greenhalgh drums.

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‘Etiquette’ from the 2015 album ‘High Risk’ by trumpeter Dave Douglas, with Jonathan Maron bass, Mark Guiliana drums and Zachary Shigeto Saginaw electronics.

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‘Third Life’ from the 2012 album ‘Cathedral’ by Oddarrang – Ilmari Pohjola trombone, Lasse Sakara guitar, Osmo Ilkonen cello/organ, Lasse Lindgren bass/synthesizer and Olavi Louhivouri drums/percussion/synthesizer.

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The title track from pianist Bobo Stenson’s 2023 album ‘Kingdom Of Coldness’, with Anders Jormin bass and Jon Falt drums.

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The title track from pianist Kekko Fornarelli’s 2012 album ‘Room Of Mirrors’, with Luca Bulgarelli bass and Gianlivo Liberti drums.