Frank Foster played with those cats? Awesome! I didn't know he was that adventurous. NP Quartet Music - Window On The Lake (9Winds) Early group of the brothers Cline (Nels & Alex), before Nels became Pedal King. In fact he plays a lot of acoustic guitar. There's also a violinst and a multi-instrumentalist who plays chromatic harmonica, piano and bass.
WP Freddie Redd Trio - San Francisco Suite (Riverside) OJC Ltd. Ed. Series, stereo Pressed on custom vinyl, these OJCs came with a "gold" hype sticker and cost $1-2 more than the regular OJCs. NP Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage (Blue Note) first press mono. Yes, it's a fold down, at least should be based on the year it was released.
To be fair to Frank, this is not a terrifically out there session. Driving, reflective? Sure. But it falls on the right of the spectrum, even though lots of folks on it have certainly created some mayhem in their day.
ICP 025 from the box. Play the music of Herbie Nichols. A day off for jazz, classical and maybe a movie.
Getting ready for the triple album. These "standards" albums aren't the best Dylan. . .but I confess I really love the arrangements and the playing on these. I could be made a country fan with music like this.
As jazz fans...what do you think of this line-up? Have you heard anyone apart from Benson and Hancock?
Not much here for fans of jazz as I am. (Though I like Sons of Khemet and a few others here, I just don't think of them as jazz). This is how you sell tickets to a jazz festival I'm afraid.
Good point. Gregory Porter is not a bad compromise. I'm not a fan of soul or funk but I love jazz. It's hard for me to listen to Jazz FM somethimes!
Although not jazz, I love Laura Mvula. Seen her a good half dozen times between the U.K. and stateside. I also like Lee Fields. In terms of jazz in the line up, I like Christian Scott the most out of the jazz musicians listed. Herbie Hancock is a living legend, but his current material leaves a lot to be desired for my tastes.
I'd recommend streaming some stuff from Christian Scott, Michael Wollny trio, Mammal Hands, Makaya Mccraven, Shabaka, Janisch and Ashley Henry to see if you like it. Most of the others lean R&B and other styles. Might be some gems in there worth the ticket.
Thanks for the recommendations. Sometimes the fun is stumbling into a stage and finding some quality undiscovered jazz.
Speaking of Christian Scott, here are some photos I took of him and his band - Photography by Atane Ofiaja - Christian Scott
They came around my neck of the woods recently and I missed them and I'm not happy about it. Oh well, next time if there is one!
Shabaka is being a busy chap looking at that - involved in Sons of Kemet, Comet Is Coming, and Shabaka & The Ancestors. I took a punt on a ticket to see Yussef Kamaal in a few weeks time in London.
This release is often panned but I've always liked it. This is the latest Sony budget reissue from Japan (uses the DSD mastering from 2001 that was used on the Sony SACD). Sounds very good. Includes "Time of the Barricudas" (which was not on the original LP).
Thanks for posting Atane. I always enjoy your work. Composition, technique, subject matter is all top shelf. I apologize for not speaking more eloquently of your work as it so deserves. The record just ended and I want to take my walk on the levee before dark. Keep up the good work and don't be shy about sharing. It can only enrich the thread. IMHO of course.
There's a Jamaican film called Smile Orange. A comedy and social commentary on the country in the 70's. The pianist Wynton Kelly was Jamaican, Randy Weston was of Jamaican parentage, as was Gil Scott Heron. Then there's Joe Harriot and trumpeter Dizzie Reece, both Jamaicans. The island has made a substantial contribution to jazz. Marley was anything but 'soft' on political issues. He grew up poor in rural northern Jamaica then Trenchtown in Kingston. My father grew up in the same part of rural Jamaica and is five years older than Marley. I can tell you from personal experience that Jamaicans generally take their politics very seriously. Not much choice given their colonial history and their struggle for independence. 'Ambush In The Night' was inspired by Marley's shooting by gang members affiliated to the JLP party (generally seen as right wing, pro-U.S. and led at the time by Edward Seaga). Marley was a supporter of the socialist Michael Manley who led the left-leaning PNP. The PNP is generally strong in rural Jamaica and poorer urban areas (unsurprisingly). It's believed that Marley had grown too closely identified with the PNP and was a threat to the election hopes of the JLP. He was due to play at a peace rally to ease political tensions but was shot a few days before at his home in Kingston. He survived and played the concert.
I had a great walk on the levee and saw a fantastic sunset with blazing orange/red skies and trees near the river shore partially underwater and looking like witch's hands coming out of the water. The river is at the bottom of the levee so we have room for a lot of water but if needed. It's also at the same level it was ten days ago before the issue upstream at Oroville where people got evacuated.
Beaver & Krause- In A Wild Sanctuary (Warner Bros. Records 1850) Love the sounds of San Francisco muni buses...
