‘Sketches Of Spain’ is the Miles Davis / Gil Evans collaboration that gets the most plaudits, but I’ve always preferred ‘Miles Ahead’ from 1957, the first of the three albums that they worked on together during this period, and one that, unusually, features Miles on flugelhorn. From that album, this is their version of the Kurt Weill / Ira Gershwin standard ‘My Ship’.
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‘Sanctus’ from the 1999 album ‘Epiphany’ by composer/arranger Vince Mendoza (for my money the nearest we have to a present-day Gil Evans). Featuring Michael Brecker and Joe Lovano on tenor saxophones, Kenny Wheeler trumpet/flugelhorn, John Taylor piano, John Abercrombie guitar, Marc Johnson bass, Peter Erskine drums and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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‘Ruby’ from the 2017 album ‘Generations’ by the Brian Landrus Orchestra, featuring Landrus on baritone saxophone, Jamie Baum alto flute, Ralph Alessi trumpet, Joe Locke vibraphone, Mark Feldman violin, Lonnie Plaxico bass and Billy Hart drums.
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Playlist OTF Jazz #6 is now available on Spotify.
http://open.spotify.com/playlist/4AsJlRRxrI9NPIJ1YCnTrb
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‘Gloves Off’ from the 2013 album ‘Counting The Ways’ from Greg Sanders’ Teotima, featuring Sanders on guitar, Maria Chiara Argiro electric piano, George Wrench trombone, Alaric Taylor trumpet, Leo Richardson tenor saxophone and flute, Kareem Dayes bass, Ben Assiter drums, Fabio De Oliviera percussion, Natasha Zielazinski cello, Nick Murray viola and Flora Curzon, Mariko McTier and Nick Sigsworth violins.
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‘The Silk Road Prelude’ from the Ronin Arkestra’s 2019 album ‘First Meeting’, with Mark de Clive-Lowe keyboards, Wataru Hamasaki tenor saxophone and flute, Kohei Ando alto saxophone, Ruike Shinpei trumpet, Tsuyoshi Kosuga guitar, Shinju Kobayashi bass and Hikaru Arata drums.
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‘Oshogbo’ from the 2008 album ’Dream Garden’ by Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures, with Rudolph on drums/percussion, Graham Haynes cornet/flugelhorn, Ned Rothenberg alto saxophone, flutes and bass clarinet, Kenny Wessel guitar, Steve Gorn clarinet/oboe, Shanir Blumenkrantz bass, Hamid Drake drums/percussion and Brahim Frigbane percussion.
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‘Puzzle Paradigm’ from the 2021 album ‘Beyond The Dome’ by British tenor saxophonist Marcus Joseph, with Ife Ogunjobi trumpet, Nathaniel Cross trombone, Tony Kofi baritone saxophone, Theon Cross tuba, Lorenz Okell-Osengor keyboards, Wayne Matthews bass and Eddie Wakili-Hick drums.
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Three tracks from the 2020 ‘Blue Note Re:imagined’ project that let an impressive selection of young British jazz talent loose on the Blue Note back catalogue. First up is ‘Prints Tie’ by Shabaka Hutchings (a song originally recorded by Bobby Hutcherson for his 1970 album ‘San Francisco’). Featuring Hutchings on clarinet, Dave Okumu guitar, Tom Herbert bass and Tom Skinner drums.
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‘Search For Peace’ (from McCoy Tyner’s 1967 album ‘The Real McCoy’) reworked by the Ishmael Ensemble – Alfie Grieve trumpet, Jake Spurgeon keyboards, Stephen Mullins guitar, Holly Wellington vocals, Harry Stoneham bass/vocals and Rory O’Gorman drums.
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‘Kulun Mankwaleshi’ from the 2019 album ‘To Know Without Knowing’, a collaboration between the Ethiopian veteran Mulatu Astatke and Australian collective Black Jesus Experience. Featuring Mulatu on vibraphone, electric piano and percussion, Peter Harper tenor saxophone, Ian Dixon trumpet, Zac Lister guitar, Dominique Chaseline flute, Bob Sedergreen piano, Richard Rose bass, James Davies drums, Olugbade Okunade percussion and Enushu Taye, Vida Sunshyne, AdisalemTaye, Corry Harper and Mearge Abate vocals.
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‘From Lagos To Addis Ababa’ from the Invisible Session’s 2021 album ‘Echoes Of Africa’, with Gianluca Petrella trombone/electronics/keyboards, Riccardo Onori guitar, Mirco Rubegni trumpet, Guiseppe Scardino baritone saxophone, Jukka Kiviemi bass, Luciano Cantone vibraphone and Abdissa Assafa drums/percussion.
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‘Something In The Water’ from the 2020 album ‘Vibrations’ by multi-instrumentalist Simon Jefferis, with Ife Ogunjobi trumpet, Ben Vize tenor saxophone, David Mrakpor electric piano and Jeffris drums, bass, guitar, keyboards and percussion.
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