A Jazz Thread

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‘Seal’ from Tommy Smith’s 1996 album ‘Beasts Of Scotland’, with Smith on tenor saxophone, Steve Hamilton piano/synthesizer, Alec Dankworth bass and Tom Gordon percussion.

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From John Martyn’s 1998 album ‘The Church With One Bell’, his version of Elmore James’ ‘The Sky Is Crying’, with Spencer Cozens keyboards, John Giblin bass and Arran Ahmun drums/percussion.

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Singer Monica Vasconcelos with ‘Coisa De Fome’, originally from her 2007 album ‘Hih’, but here recorded live in 2013 accompanied by Steve Lodder and The London Bossa Collectice – Lodder on keyboards, Shanti Jayasinha trumpet, Ben Davis cello, Dudley Phillips bass, Marius Rodriguez drums and Adriano Adewale percussion.

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‘Cloud Chamber’ from the 2017 album ‘Ha Noi Duo’ by Nguyen Le (guitar) and Ngo Hong Quang (vocals and Vietnamese fiddle), with Paolo Fresu trumpet/flugelhorn, Mieko Miyazaki koto, Prabhu Edouard percussion and Stephane Edouard percussion.

[Satchmo Distel]

Pharoah Sanders - Harvest Time (1977) is very lovely:

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‘Kerkyra’ from ‘Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises’, the 1970 collaboration between composer/orchestrator Neil Ardley, soprano/tenor saxophonist Don Rendell and trumpeter Ian Carr, accompanied by Barbara Thompson on alto/soprano saxophones and flute, Karl Jenkins soprano/baritone saxophones and oboe, Frank Ricotti vibraphone/percussion, Jeff Clyne bass, John Marshall drums and a small string section.

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Another great new Jazz In Britain release, this is ‘Forget To Remember’ by the Ray Russell Sextet, taken from a live performance at the Aeolian Hall, New Bond St, London on 2nd January 1970 and now available as ‘Forget To Remember – Live Vol. 2 1970’, with Russell on guitar, Harry Beckett trumpet/flugelhorn, Tony Roberts saxophones, Nick Evans trombone, Daryl Runswick bass and Alan Rushton drums.

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The title track from the Graham Collier Sextet’s 1969 album ‘Down Another Road’, with Collier on bass, Karl Jenkins piano & oboe, Harry Beckett trumpet, Stan Sulzmann alto & tenor saxophones, Nick Evans trombone and John Marshall drums.

[Tony C]

Great.

Oddly, my route into Sun Ra was another compilation, of Sun Ra's singles. It runs from soul and doowop to straight up novelty songs to weird DIY experiments. Although it nowhere reaches the height if Sun Ra's achievements, somehow it gave a good sense of the kind of boundaries he was probing.

Listened through the Peterson collection a few times now and it’s both stimulating and surprising in equal measure / the early doo-wop stuff I certainly didn’t expect. Perhaps my favourite track in the compilation is the one from the Sleeping Beauty album I now own, and which is very quickly becoming a firm favourite.

Currently exploring other albums via other songs on the list but there is certainly a lot out there. Had a listen to his collaboration album with Pharoah Sanders which has its moments.

[diggedy derek]

I'm glad you got something out of the compilation. I like a lot of the doo wop stuff, and my favourite is the wonderful "Daddy's Gonna Tell You No Lie" by the Cosmic Rays. What a perfect peach of a single, really not what you'd expect.

[gjw100]

‘Action Re-Action', recorded in Denmark and released in 1974, is not perhaps the kind of album you would expect from drummer Ed Thigpen, best-known for his long association with mainstream pianist Oscar Peterson. This is ‘Danish Drive’, with Palle Mikkelborg trumpet, Lennart Aberg tenor saxophone, Kjell Ohrman electric piano, Mads Winding bass, Sabu Martinez congas and Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro percussion.

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'Odin’s Oga’ from the self-titled 1972 album by Swedish band Solar Plexus, with Carl–Axel Dominique flute, Monica Dominique electric piano, Georg Wadenius bass and Tommy Borgudd drums.

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‘Sole’ from Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen’s 1978 album ‘Green Shading Into Blue’, with Juhani Aaltonen saxophones/flute, Lars Jansson keyboards and Pal Thowsen drums/percussion.

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The distinctive guitar of Melvin Ragin, better known as Wah Wah Watson, can be heard on several prominent Motown recordings from the 70’s, including the much-copied riff that underpins ‘Papa Was A Rolling Stone’. In jazz circles he is probably best known for his contributions to Herbie Hancock’s 1975 album ‘Man-Child, for which he co-wrote three tracks, and ‘Secrets’ from the following year where he co-wrote five tracks. This is his version of ‘Bubbles’ from ‘Man-Child’, re-recorded for his only solo album ‘Elementary’ (1976), with Hancock on keyboards, Bennie Maupin soprano saxophone, Louis Johnson bass and Ollie Brown drums.

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‘Frost Bite’ from the 1977 album ‘Time Capdule’ by drummer Elvin Jones, with Ryo Kawasaki guitar, George Coleman tenor saxophone, Bunky Green alto saxophone, Frank Weiss flute, Kenny Barron electric piano, Milt Hinton bass and Angel Allende percussion.

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‘Black Ice’ from Jeff Lorber’s 1978 album ‘Soft Space’ with Lorber on keyboards, Joe Farrell flute, Lester McFarland bass and Dennis Bradford drums. My vinyl copy of this album was once owned by Greenslade’s Dave Lawson and was given to me by his younger brother (one of my best mates at school) as a parting gift shortly before he quit his A-level studies rather impetuously to go and work on a ramshackle dairy farm in darkest North Wales. Perhaps a good subject for a new thread – acquiring a record through unusual circumstances.

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‘Medina’ from drummer Joe Chambers’ 1974 album ‘The Almoravid’, with Woody Shaw trumpet, Garnett Brown trombone, Harold Vick tenor saxophone, George Cables electric piano and Cecil McBee bass.

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‘The Jet Set’ from Gary Chandler’s 1972 album ‘Outlook’ with Chandler on trumpet, Dick Griffin trombone, Harold Ousley tenor saxophone, Cornell Dupree guitar, Caesar Frazier organ, Idris Muhammad drums and Buddy Caldwell percussion.

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‘Darling Doria’ from The John Betsch Society’s 1974 album ‘Earth Blossom’, with Betsch on drums/percussion, Billy Puett saxophones/flutes, Jim Bridges guitar, Bob Holmes piano, Ed ‘Lump’ Williams bass and Phil Royster percussion.

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‘Neophilia (Love Of The New)’ from Jack DeJohnette’s 1970 album ‘Have You Heard’, featuring DeJohnette on drums, Bennie Maupin flute, Hideo Ichikawa electric piano and Gary Peacock bass.

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‘Bwaata’ from the 1972 album ‘Take Off Your Body’ by Compost, a bit of a curiosity from Jack DeJohnette’s back catalogue, with Jack coming out from behind his drum kit to play vibraphone and keyboards, Bob Moses drums/vocals, Jumma Santos percussion, Harold Vick saxophone/flute and Jack Gregg bass.

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‘Last Summer’ from Byard Lancaster’s 1968 album ‘It’s Not Up To Us’, with Lancaster on flute, Sonny Sharrock guitar, Jerome Hunter bass, Eric Gravatt drums and Kenny Speller congas.

[gjw100]

With over 400 tracks and counting, the ‘OTF Jazz’ Spotify playlist was getting a bit too large, so I have split it into four separate playlists and started a fifth.

OTF Jazz #1
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0V...f488df3ea14f25

OTF Jazz #2
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21...81d1230ad84b70

OTF Jazz #3
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4V...d27718ca784598

OTF Jazz #4
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0r...ed5692e1c2446f

[Satchmo Distel]

Those playlists are fantastic. Is it possible to perhaps edit the OP and put them there too?

[Satchmo Distel]

Alice Coltrane - Shiva Loka