Pianist Bertha Hope(now 81) playing 'Bai Tai Blues' from her 1991 album 'Elmo's Fire'(STEEPLECHASE):
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‘Heavy Soul’
Ike Quebec with Freddie Roach, Milt Hilton & Al Harewood
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Anthony Ortega(now 90) playing alto sax on Monk's 'Ask Me Now' with bassist Kash Killion recorded in 2005 from 'Afternoon in Paris'(hatOLOGY):
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'Destination... Out!'
Jackie McLean with Grachan Moncur II, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Ridley & Roy Haynes
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Yesterday evening:
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure (twice)
Bobby Hutcherson - Components
John Abercrombie - Gateway
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This little curiosity from 1979 came up on another site the other day - an album overlooked by me from the now almost forgotten flautist/saxophonist Bob Downes, who had been a bit of a cult figure on the fringes of free jazz and jazz-rock earlier on in the decade, before emigrating to Germany. It's unusual to find Paul Rutherford in this kind of context, working over a quasi-African rhythm. Brian Godding worked with Mike Westbrook during the "Cortège" period; he first came to light in a late 60s psychedelic band called Blossom Toes - later The Ingoes - and is brother-in-law to Julie Tippetts, if I remember correctly. Paul Bridge was regular with Mike Osborne and Don Rendell at this time, and Dennis Smith had long been Downes's drummer of choice, though he had also worked with John Stevens. The last time I came across Bob was on a broadcast sometime in the mid-80s introduced by Charles Fox - a band called Amplified Foot.
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Not sure if this link works but it should lead to an hour long interview with Bennie Maupin just up on You Tube. Bennie is talking about how he got started, his incredible friendship and almost "adoption" by a rigourously dedicated Sonny Rollins and the jazz life, business and absolute commitment demanded. Well worth watching, it's completely enthralling. He's also got some strong and very articulate views on jazz education in another interview clip. "They are going to have to unlearn a great deal of what they think they know, I had to"Comment
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Works fine for me, BluesnikOriginally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
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I have finally "cracked" the technology! Next, boil a kettle!Comment
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‘Judgment!’
Andrew Hill with Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis & Elvin Jones
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As a computer semi-literate autodidact, who never learned how to "cut and paste", what I do whenever I want to post a link is just to re-type it on my keyboard as best as my eyesight allows; if it then comes up " invalid link" one can always go back, re-check and edit. In my case it usually amounts to having only typed one / after http: instead of two - my fingers being just too fast for the keyboard. It's the same with the piano... Art Tatum could never have played my piano...Originally posted by BLUESNIK'S REVOX View Post
Thanks for the Benny Maupin link btw - I loved his stuff with Andrew Hill and in Herbie's Headhunters, and his bass clarinet "colouring" on Bitches Brew was always more than just that.Comment
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It's his live playing with Horace Silver in the late 60s (the front line with Bill Hardman). Horace really gives him space and his playing is extraordinary, far more complex and intensive than I'd previously thought him. He also seems an extremely thoughtful and decent man, and his close personal and musical friendship with Sonny is a model. It does bring home (again) just how committed these guys were.Comment
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Have been going through my old tapes(1978-1988) of Charles Fox's 'Jazz Today' programme on Radio 3.
He played some great stuff, rarely heard on radio today, such as this track 'Riff #5' from Jimmy Lyons(alto sax) with John Lindberg(bass) & Sunny Murray(drums) at Willisau, Switzerland in 1980
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‘The Rumproller’
Lee Morgan with Joe Henderson, Ronnie Matthews, Victor Sproles & Billy Higgins
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Humph on his long-running Radio 2 programme 'The Best of Jazz' often played tracks by the flautist Jeremy Steig(1942-2016) who's rarely heard from nowadays.
I recently discovered his 1963 debut album 'Flute Fever'(COLUMBIA) with Denny Zeitlin(piano); Ben Tucker(bass) & Ben Riley(drums).
Here's his version of Sonny Rollins' 'Blue Seven' from 'Saxophone Colossus':
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