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    ‘Exquisite She-Green' from tenor saxophonist Binker Golding’s 2019 album ‘Abstractions Of Reality Past And Incredible Feathers’, with Joe Armon-Jones piano, Daniel Casimir bass and Sam Jones drums.
     

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      ‘Dusk’ from the 2021 album ‘The Space In Which The Uncontrollable Unknown Resides Can Be The Place From Which Creation Arises’ from tenor saxophonist Tony Burkill’s Work Money Death, with Adam Fairhall piano, Neil Innes bass, Sam Hobbs drums and Pete Williams percussion.
       

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        Night Dreamer is an Anglo-Dutch label specialising in high quality direct-to-disc recordings that has built a small but impressive catalogue of releases since its creation in 2019. From 2020, this is ‘Harlem To Haarlem’, a collaboration between veteran saxophonist Gary Bartz and young British band Maisha, featuring Jake Long drums, Alex Kaner-Lindstrom trumpet, Alexander MacSween keyboards, Shirley Tetteh guitar, Twm Dylan bass and Tim Doyle percussion.
         

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          Spotify playlist OTF Jazz #8 is now available.



          https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2C...gOGO1uYjWXxGvb

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            The title track from the 2008 album ‘Hopes And Dreams’ by Wayne Escoffery’s Veneration, with Joe Locke marimba, Hans Glawischnig bass, Jonathan Blake drums and Escoffery on tenor saxophone.
             

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              ‘Beckoning’ from alto saxophonist Idris Ackamoor’s 1999 album ‘Centurian’, with Fred Harris piano and drums, Mark Williams bass, Baba Duru Oshun percussion and an uncredited violinist I suspect may well be Sandra Poindexter.
               

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                ‘Charlie Knows’ from the 2007 album ‘Audiofeeling’ by Polish pianist Pawel Kacmarczyk, with Grzegorz Pietrowski, Radoslaw Nowicki and Tomas Grzegorski tenor saxophones, Michal Baranski bass and Pawel Dobrowolski drums.
                 

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                  A new teaching colleague of mine plays bass on this - 'Nardis' (Miles Davis) by the Modern Jazz Connection



                  Here's his bass version of 'Round Midnight'

                  Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 22-08-2021, 11:18.

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                    ‘Bright Above Us’ from the 2020 album ‘Kites And Strings’ by the Ben Rosenblum Nebula Pproject, with Rosenblum on accordion, Wayne Tucker trumpet, Jasper Dutz renor saxophone, Sam Chess trombone, Jeremy Corren piano, Jake Chapman vibraphone, Rafael Rosa guitar, Marty Jaffe bass and Ben Zweig drums.
                     

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                      ‘Snow in Altadena’ from the 2020 album ‘The Ogre’ by the David Tranchina Large-ish Ensemble. With Michael Mull, Joe Santa Maria, Brian Walsh and Ted Tafaro saxophones/clarinet/flute, Dan Rosenboom and Greg Zilboorg trumpets, Ryan Dragon and Juliane Gralle trombones, Alex Noice guitar, Cathlene Pineda piano, Tina Raymond drums and David Tranchina bass.
                       

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                        ‘Under The’, the 2021 single from Colectiva – Maria Grapsa keyboards, Viva Msimang trombone, Deanna Wilhelm trumpet, Poppy Danies trumpet, Nadine Nagen violin, arah Wackett flute, Luisa Santiago keyboards, Alley Lloyd bass, Lya Guerrero drums and Lilli Elina congas.
                         

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                          Any fans here of Manc saxophonist Nat Birchall? I heard him in a record shop last week, immediately bought the disc off the turntable, and have been listening to his wider catalogue ever since. Especially recommended LPs (so far): Akhenaten and Invocations. He very much channels Coltrane, but in a good way, and the bass lines are mesmerising.

                          [Apologies if he's already been linked to on here - the search engine threw up nothing.]

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                            Originally posted by imp View Post
                            Any fans here of Manc saxophonist Nat Birchall? I heard him in a record shop last week, immediately bought the disc off the turntable, and have been listening to his wider catalogue ever since. Especially recommended LPs (so far): Akhenaten and Invocations. He very much channels Coltrane, but in a good way, and the bass lines are mesmerising.

                            [Apologies if he's already been linked to on here - the search engine threw up nothing.]

                            I haven't yet posted anything by Nat Birchall, imp, although he would have been namechecked on a track by Matthew Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra that I posted quite a while back. It doesn't show up on the Search function though (which I've always found a bit hit and miss).

                            If you haven't listened to it already, check out the Tony Burkill track a few posts upthread. I think you would like it.

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                              Great to see yet more amazing music on here. Great work gjw as ever.

                              Tony, everything Eric Dolphy ever did is amazing

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                                Our recent holiday was spent driving around listening to a big Chant Du Monde box set, The History Of Piano Jazz, which I picked up several years ago. All of it was delightful, but listening to it all, there were moments which just felt transcendent, where the player had elevated to a level of pure thought and speed and play. That’s what it felt like, anyway, and I emerged with a newfound love for some of the piano music of that era which could be formal in certain respects but as free as any music in others.


                                Here’s some highlights to share, avoiding Joplin, Ellington and some of the other better known players.

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                                  James P Johnson

                                  You’ve Got To Be Modernistic (1930)


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                                    Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith

                                    Morning Air (1938)


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                                      Earl Hines, a player I have developed such a strong love for in recent months. He played with Louis Armstrong, and was still performing wonders to French audiences in the 1960s and 70s. His playing is entertainment, geometry and mathematics all wrapped up in one

                                      Rosetta 1939

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                                        Herbert Chittison – who the hell is this guy? Not much info I can find online, I need to dig into my books, he ended up in Egypt. Ignore that image of Bill Evans incidentally. This version of this piece I feel blew away each and other version on this compilation.

                                        The Man I Love (1941)

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                                          Lennie Tristano

                                          What Is This Thing Called Love (1945)

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                                            Great posts, dd. Almost hard to believe it was such a long time ago and yet without these guys there's no Monk, Tyner, Hancock, Jarrett et al.

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                                              ‘Could You Be Me’ by singers Kathy Kosins and Paul Rudolph can be found on Kosins’ own 2018 album ‘Uncovered Soul’ as well as volume 12 of Gilles Peterson’s excellent Brownswood Bubblers compilation series. With Mitch Forman keyboards, Curtis Taylor trumpet, Greg Moore guitar, Kevin Axt bass, Eric Harland drums and Munyungo Jackson percussion.
                                               

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                                                ‘Hear Us Now’ by Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson from the 2009 album ‘Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson Plays The Dining Rooms: The Jazz Thing’, with Prommer on percussion and samples, Roberto Di Gioia keyboards, Christian Diener bass, Matteo Scrimali percussion and Georgeanne Kalweit vocals.
                                                 

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                                                  ‘Home’ from Uschi Classen’s 2002 album ‘Soul Magic’ with Eska Mtungwazi vocals, Carlos Fuentes flute and Classen keyboards/programming.
                                                   

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                                                    The title track from Simon Moullier’s 2020 album ‘Spirit Song’, with Moullier on vibraphone, balafon, percussion and synthesizer, Morgan Guerin tenor saxophone, Simon Chivallon piano, Luca Alemanno bass and Jongkuk Kim drums.
                                                     

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