Has anyone besides me ever heard of John Coates Jr.? He's this incredible piano player that I got turned on to in college 35 years ago, but his music is hard to find and nobody ever talks about him.
Another un-talked-about great: Irene Kral - a voice like pure spring water. I've wondered if Diana Krall is related to her.Anyway, Irene did two albums of duets with Alan Broadbent that is among the sweetest recordings ever made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qPyPHRyJk
Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) - Cape Town Fringe Abdullah Ibrahim, piano; Paul Michaels, bass; Basil Coetzee/ Robbie Jansen, alto sax & flute; Monty Weber, drums.
The Whammies – Play the Music of Steve Lacy Vol 3 Live (Driff Records) — With Jorrit Dijkstra, Pandelis Karayorgis, Jeb Bishop, Mary Oliver, Nate McBride, Han Bennink; recorded live at Cinema Lux, Padova, Italy, 2014
Now playing: "The Book", Bethlehem stereo vinyl reissue. Booker Irvin - sax Tommy Turrentine - trumpet Tommy Flanigan - piano Danny Richmond - drums George Tucker - bass Irvin had a beautiful tone. This is great!!
I was just spinning this one last night. Dexter is wonderful with a little bit of an rough edge to his signature big warm sound. A great bebopper but I love his touch on the ballads.
Lost Tribe – Many Lifetimes (Arabesque Recordings) — Adam Rogers, David Binney, Fima Ephron, Ben Perowsky Nice CD. Fine music, lousy cover.
Strange that Living Time has never come out on CD outside Japan. I picked up my vinyl version some years back off Ebay. Great album.
She's touring! Chicago, New York... on sale! http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...rk-coming-april-1-usa-preview-samples.491618/
Woke up early, had time to listen to a couple before going in for the night shift: WP: Grant Green - Matador; Music Matters 45 NP: Lee Morgan - Search For The New Land; Music Matters 45
Nice. I didn't know they reissued it. NP Lee Morgan Vol.3 (Blue Note) Music Matters 45 RPM Pressing Just received this today and wow! I should have bought this one a long time ago. My excuse was back in the day when I was discovering Lee Morgan I had acquired several of his early BN albums and though I liked them I started lookng for something a bit more modern sounding for lack of a better word. So I put a moratorium on LM albums and chased other things. Later on through Music Matters I discovered Tom Cat and Search For The New Land and was blown away by those two. When I started reading people's comments on Vol.3 I thought I might want to check it out. The generic sounding title didn't do much, another reason I thought it might be closer to his earlier work. My assumptions were way off base as fans of this album already know. Having Benny Golson and Gigi Gryce is a big plus in my book though thirty years ago I might not have been as interested. Such is life. What is old is new again. Is this the original version of I Remember Clifford? It sounds like it based on the liner notes.
Couldn't agree more. EW&F was one of the first groups I checked out that was outside of the "60's and 70s' FM rock" stuff that was the prevailing thing in the 'burbs where I grew up. "Shining Star" in particular really got me going - an example of a genre "crossover" tune par excellence, played on all kinds of radio stations. I could instantly relate to and enjoy the ripping guitar solo as a Zep/Queen/Crimson/Yes/etc fan at the time, but then I also found myself responding to the funky, danceable beat, and that opened up a whole new world for me that eventually led to jazz. I wasn't too surprised when I learned later that Maurice White had played on many jazz recordings, he definitely could swing a band, hard, no matter what genre. RIP Mr. White, and thanks.
