Archie Shepp – Dollar Brand – Duet
Two different styles of two gifted musicians are combined in this album are engraved in Tokyo by Archie Shepp and Dollar Brand in June 1978. While Shepp was staying in Tokyo during his concert tour in Japan, Brand came to Japan specifically for this recording session and the two met [...]
This is a classic example of the Soul/Acid Jazz sound, and one of the early Prestige records to go in this direction. This album is an absolute burner, with Bryant coming off with a similar groove-based style that Lou Donaldson was working with at the time. It was produced by Ozzie Cadena, who took the job [...]
Lou Donaldson – Sweet Lou
Recently, I found myself feeling very nostalgic; thinking about the ‘good times’ I used to have listening to and talking about jazz. And in most instances of this sort, Charlie “Yardbird’ Parker drifts into my recoIlection as well because of the overwhelming influence he had on the direction of jazz artists [...]
Nathan Davis – Makatuka LP
When you have been in radio for Twenty-Six years playing all kinds of music, you kind of get an "ear" for something distinct. This is exactly what my ears grasped when I listened to Nathan Davis playing three instruments (bass clarinet, soprano sax, tenor sax) along with some very fine side-men [...]
Clifford Jordan & The Magic Triangle – On Stage Vol. 1
This is one of three LP's pressed by SteepleChase Records that were born from a 1975 European tour by Clifford Jordan and the Magic Triangle (Cedar Walton-piano, Sam Jones-bass, Billy Higgins-drums).The first LP was recorded live in the BIM house in Amsterdam.
Great players covering great [...]
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Wantlist: Rusty Bryant – Fire Eater LP
Serious Acid Jazz/Funk burner right here….besides Bryant's sax, the organ playing is smoking, divided between Leon Spencer and Bill Mason. For a 4-piece band, they get an amazingly full sound, with Idris Muhammad handling serious business on the drums. I'd probably refrain from spending $125 on it, and try [...]
Super-Sonic Sounds is the 1974 Impulse reissue of the first Sun Ra album to be released on his label El Saturn Research, Super-Sonic Jazz, which was owned and operated by Ra and his business partner Alton Abraham. Before the Super-Sonic Jazz release they had released singles by Chicago doo-wop groups like the Cosmic Rays. The [...]
Coleman Hawkins – Soul
Coleman Hawkins achieved great recognition and acclaim with the orchestra of Fletcher Henderson between 1923 and 1934 but his recording of Body And Soul, made after his return from a five month stay in England and on the Continent, really established him with the American jazz public. He had checked in at [...]
Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker – Groovin' High
A quarter-century ago, Bop was a revolution in music, a revolution as enthusiastically supported by some as it was violently opposed by others. The boppers, in fact, were the jazz militants of their day. They wanted to overthrow the jazz establishment, to supplant it with renovative processes which, [...]
Scatman John Larkin "Scatman" John Larkin – Self Titled LP Download
It's amazing sometimes where a little investigation into a record can lead you. I came across this sealed copy of the John Larkin LP on the Transition Records label a few years ago (forget where I found it), and held onto it due to the abstract, [...]
