Some new additions on the very edges of Jazz this week. The first album proves the Jazz rock dog still has some life in it. The other is more towards Classical music.
Deface the Currency by The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, is pretty heavy hard rocking and blowing stuff. Brilliantly carried off.
I discovered Dereck Gripper, browsing through the Matsuli Music catalogue on Bandcamp, I came across the stunning “One Night on Earth: Music from the Strings of Mali”, a solo Classical guitar record with a strong African vibe. He is a South African musician.
I think I will be exploring more of his music.
Thanks. I will take a listen to him.
A beautiful Jerome Sabbagh Album, The Tone of his saxophone sounds almost like Stan Getz‘s. Kenny Barron and Sabbagh play a beautiful hommage to long gone Jazz Great.
Very pleasant start of the Sunday with this one. Top trumpet ! Album is recorded very well, by the way
Top sax
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Ahhh shoot me @stavrose
you are fully right !!! … anyway, as long as you like the album
Currently listening to this one …. It’s also so very nice
Pieces of Time is an album by jazz drummers Kenny Clarke, Andrew Cyrille, Milford Graves, and Famoudou Don Moye. It was recorded in September 1983, and was released by the Soul Note label in 1984.[1] The album, the catalyst for which was Cyrille,[2] presents compositions by all four musicians, along with four two-minute “personal statements.” Liner notes were provided by Max Roach, who wrote: "This idea of four percussionists, using sounds as their premise in creating a work as profound as Pieces of Time, is pure artistic design.
I’m With The Band - The Tierney Sutton Band recorded live at Birdland, NYC in March 2005. It somewhat warms this snowy Sunday afternoon - on Qobuz.
Bob,a favourite trombonist more attacking with valves rather than the slide.
Two pianists. Jimmy Rowles tripping around the keyboard like a ballet dancer.
John Williams (not him) grumbling away like a fledgling Horace Silver.
Haven’t heard this since my youth.I think they were originally Clef recordings so will sound quite sweet.
Spotify but might be on the other sources.
Also on Tidal. I’ll have a listen.
The Ear of the Behearer is an album by American jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman featuring performances recorded in 1973 for the Impulse! label.
Not an easy listen like much of my preferred Jazz listening and certainly not first choice for folks new’ish to the genre but if you ‘get it’ … enjoy.
I enjoyed his playing on Pat Metheny’s 80/81 album.
Where Is Brooklyn? is an album by Don Cherry featuring Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell, and Pharoah Sanders recorded in 1966 and released on the Blue Note label.
Great album.
Refreshing: two artists (Ruben Fox, tenor sax and Micah Thomas, piano, both Juilliard graduates) I have not heard before got together and recorded this album in a single afternoon without having rehearsed anything. The recording often sounds a bit harsh and grainy, the tenor sax in particular, but it doesn’t diminish the joy of listening.
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