Sunday-morning playlist. Both highly recommended
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For me his Feeding the Machine album with Moses, is superb, especially the first haunting track.
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A couple of tunes from Kamaal Williams first a solo song Salaam and secondly a live version of Black Focus the title track from the brilliant Yussef Kamaal LP from 2016 Wayne Francis is standing in for Shabaka Hutchings who plays on the studio recording of the LP.
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@Richard tried this one since I didn’t know Binker Golding. Thanks for recommending; this band has huge capabilities; one ca hear so in every song. I find the style of jazz a bit direct and prefer another style more pleasant, but I will defo try some more of his albums
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Two old timers and a couple of mates put their professionalism on display. It’s not showy, they have nothing to prove.One review I found called it endearing. Nice to see money spent on cover art.
Not sure about Ilya Lushtak he plays so far behind the beat I fear he might drop off.
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This choice item of clothing arrived from Trunk today. I think they only ran off about 20 of them.
The Mole logo lives on !
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Saturday brought me two new CDs,
Gil Evans with The Individualism Of Gil Evans. Very much in the vein of Sketches of Spain.
I also picked up Memories of Home, by John Schofield and Dave Holland. Im still absorbing this one.
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I lived off the Caledonian Road in London for a while.
No other reason to visit Kings Cross in those days so I was often in there. About as happy go lucky as Ray Smith. Dobells was the Waitrose of Jazz record retailers.
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Yeah, I was a regular in there as well during the late 70s/early 80s at the original store and then later on when they moved up the road in the Pentonville direction. Particularly good for US and Japanese imports.
Kings Cross and the area around the station was definitely very edgy in those days. Mole was like an oasis amongst the lunacy.
As Bobby Wellins (regular customer) used to say - the rapid furtive scanning of the record racks by punters reminded him of the lineup in a gents urinals !
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My favourite from Gil. Some fabulous solos.
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Years ago I took up a load of lps to part exchange one Saturday morning. My dad, who gave me a lift, was propositioned as he sat waiting in the car.
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Same here. At Kings Cross near Mole - and in Soho, on more than one occasion, on the way to the old Virgin and HMV stores. Back then, Soho was an absolute den of iniquity.
In between student lectures and with an hour or so to spare, a trip to the record shop beckoned !
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But much more fun!
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Essence from Donald Byrd’s excellent 1970 record Electric Byrd produced by and featuring Duke Pearson featuring an exceptional band with amongst others Pepper Adams and on guitar Wally Richardson.
I have the 313 series reissue from Third Man which amongst their not so great pressings stands out as exceptionally good on my system in fact out of the three 313’s I bought only the Thad Jones is a bit flat which is a real shame the Kenny Cox is also very good.
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