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Blowing In From Chicago 21 Feb 2007 | 07:30 pm
CLIFFORD JORDAN & JOHN GILMORE Blowing In From Chicago Blue Note 1549 Recorded March 3rd 1957 Side One 1. Status Quo 2. Bo-Till 3. Blue Lights Side Two 1. Billie's Bounce 2. Evil Eye 3. Everywher...
John Coltrane - Live At The Village Vanguard Again 24 Nov 2006 | 07:04 am
'Live At The Village Vanguard Again' is the stub of a (lost) longer recording of a 1966 show featuring Trane, Pharoah Sanders on tenor and flute, Alice Coltrane on piano, and Jimmy Garrisson and Elvin...
Alan Silva - Skilfullness 23 Nov 2006 | 05:56 am
Alan Treadwell DaSilva played bass on a number of noteworthy recordings during the 1960s, including Cecil Taylor's mighty 'Unit Structures' and Albert Ayler's impulse! recordings from the Village Vang...
I Get The Message 17 Nov 2006 | 11:39 am
Don't worry guys, I've got the message. I was just looking at my traffic, and once again I see that the hits per day have dropped by about 50% after posting about Weather Report. I won't do it again, ...
Stormy Weather 13 Nov 2006 | 08:08 pm
I got into Weather Report in totally the reverse order. Growing up, my dad often played 'Heavy Weather', with the track 'Birdland' being a particular favourite. For those that don't know, this album w...
Butter or Jam? 12 Nov 2006 | 09:33 pm
This cover has little going for it, although it's not bad considering the period and style of music. The question is, though - what's Pharoah got on his toast? While you're puzzling that out, check o...
Pharoah Sanders - Love Will Find A Way 11 Nov 2006 | 10:37 pm
Way back in december last year I reviewed Pharoah's 1976 LP 'Pharoah'. I noted that it was, by and large, a laid back funky slice of post free-jazz that was worth a listen. One well-known track on thi...
Bill Dixon - Intents and Purposes 6 Nov 2006 | 08:20 pm
I'm unsure what attracts me towards free jazz sometimes. There's the unbridled creativity, of course, and the 'living-in-the-moment' spontaneity that I try to live by myself. But that doesn't change t...
Dorothy Ashby - Soul Vibrations 5 Nov 2006 | 09:26 am
Something of a pioneer of the harp as a jazz instrument, Dorothy Ashby was born plain Dorothy Thompson in Detroit in 1932. Somehow she managed to overcome the resistance of fellow jazz musicians (migh...
Brad Mehldau - Day Is Done 10 Oct 2006 | 08:25 am
The Bop guys had no problem in plundering contemporary popular music for source material, so it's a mystery why many players keep on rehashing the same old stuff in the 21st century. I mean, bop happe...
