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    ‘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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      ‘This Dream’ from trumpeter Freddie Hubbard’s 1979 album ‘The Love Connection’, featuring Chick Corea piano, Chuck Domanico bass and Chester Thompson drums, with orchestra arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman.
       

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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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              ‘Life On Earth’ from the recently-released album ‘Other Worlds’ by Dave Douglas & Joe Lovano’s Soundprints – Douglas trumpet, Lovano tenor saxophone, Lawrence Fields piano, Linda May Han Oh bass and Joey baron drums.
               

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                ‘Guenevere Part 1’ from the 2018 album ‘A Second Of Silence’ by Phoenician Blinds – Julian Knapp tenor saxophone, Tom Sochas piano, Oli Cross bass and Matt Parkinson drums.
                 

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                  ‘Elisian / Inutil Paisagem’ from Michel Benita’s 2020 album ‘Looking At Sounds’, with Benita on bass, Josef Dumoulin electric piano / electronics, Matthieu Michel flugelhorn and Philippe Garcia drums.
                   

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                    'Yesterday’s Forest Magic’ from the 2018 album ‘Energy Dreams’ by Rejoicer (keyboard player and multi-instrumentalist Yuval Havkin), with Sefi Zisling trumpet, Noam Havkin bass and Amir Bresler drums.
                     

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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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                          ‘State Of Emergence Suite (Movement Three: Synthesis’ from the 2020 album ‘Dialectic Soul’ by South African drummer Asher Gamedze, with Robin Fassie-Kock trumpet, Buddy Wells tenor saxophone and Thembinkosi Mavimbela bass.
                           

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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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                                ‘Ice Is Nice’ from Richard Spaven’s 2010 album ‘Spaven’s 5ive’, with Spaven on drums, Vincent Helbers keyboards and Jonas Lonna programming.
                                 

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                                  ‘Yellow Ochre Part 1’ from the 2017 EP ‘Yellow Ochre’ by the Vels Trio – Jack Stephenson-Oliver keyboards, Cameron Dawson bass and Dougal Taylor drums.
                                   

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                                    ‘Love’ from Native Dancer’s self-released 2015 ‘EP Vol 1’, with Frida Touray vocals, Sam Crowe keyboards, Josh Arcoleo tenor saxophone, Jonathan Harvey bass and Alexis Nunez drums.
                                     

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                                      'Bluebird of Delhi' from Duke Ellington's Far East Suite (1967):





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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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                                            Nubya Garcia’s version of ‘A Shade Of Jade’ (originally from Joe Henderson’s 1973 album ‘Mode For Joe’), with Garcia on tenor saxophone, Joe Armon-Jones keyboards, Daniel Casimir bass and Sam Jones 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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                                                  ‘Ali’s Mali’ from the self-titled 2018 album by Waaju – Sam Rapley tenor saxophone, Tal Janes guitar, Joe Downard bass, Ben Brown drums/percussion and Ernesto Marichales 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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