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2008-08-04T16:27:00.001+01:00

SHINTARO QUINTET
(Shintaro Nakamura with Shunzo Ohno)
EVOLUTION
Ultra Vybe, 1984

Shintaro Nakamura (bass)
Shunzo Ohno (trumpet)
Robert Kenmotsu (tenor saxophone)
Jeff Jenkins (piano)
Fukushi Tainaka (drums)

2008-08-01T12:32:00.002+01:00

All you old jazz bloggers will remember El Swami Hermitus, well the good news is he's back HERE So go grab some music and say hello !!

2008-07-26T12:48:00.003+01:00

THE MAYOR AND THE PEOPLE ~ CARL B. STOKES
A BLACK SUITE FOR STRING QUARTET & JAZZ ORCHESTRA BY OLIVER NELSON

In 1967 Carl B. Stokes was the first elected black mayor of an American city, Cleveland, Ohio. The first side of this album features a highly political press conference that touches on issues of the time, The Black Panthers, genocide and racism.
On the second side is a beautiful seven-movement suite of poetry and spirituals featuring narration again from Carl B. Stokes
This album is not unlike another of my personal favorites from Oliver Nelson, The Kennedy Dream

Side A
The mayor and The people press coference

Side B
A Black Suite for String Quartet and Jazz Orchestra (Oliver Nelson)

a. Take This Hammer
b. Precious Lord
c. Sit Down
d. Mother To Son (Langston Hughes)
e. I Too Sing America (Langston Hughes)
f. I Dream A World (Langston Hughes)
g. Paint It Black (Gil Scott Heron)

2008-07-23T08:25:00.002+01:00

Charlie Mariano ~ Reflections 1974

Re upped as a request for Quique

1. Glenford Crescent
2. Naima
3. Brother Muthaiah
4. Spanish Dance No 2
5. Blue In Green
6. Thiruvarankulam
7. Chile
8. Ramblin

Charlie Mariano
Eero Koivistoinen
Olli Ahvelahti
Pekka Sarmanto
Reino Laine
Sabu Martinez

2008-07-22T04:13:00.002+01:00

JOHN HANDY
Recorded Live At Monterey Jazz Festival

Live At Monterey:
1. If We Only Knew 27:29
2. Spanish Lady 19:31

Recorded September 18, 1965

John Handy - Alto saxophone
Michael White - Violin
Jerry Hahn - Guitar
Don Thompson - Bass
Terry Clarke - Drums

Track 3. Tears Of Ole Miss (Anatomy Of A Riot) 31:09

John Handy - Alto Sax
Pat Martino - Guitar
Bobby Hutcherson - Vibes
Albert Stinson - Bass
Doug Sides - Drums

Recorded At Village Gate, NY, June 28, 1967

2008-07-19T12:03:00.003+01:00

Staffan Abeleen Quintets - Sweet Alva (1974)

This one wins hands down for the naffest cover going but don't judge a book ...
The first track was featured on the excellent Crippled Dick Hot Wax comp, Between Or Beyond The Northern Lights, Rare Fusion from Scandinavia 1967-1978

Bass - Björn Alke
Drums - Frederic Norén
Piano - Staffan Abeleen
Saxophone [Soprano] - Tommy Koverhult
Trumpet, Synthesizer [Moog] - Bertil Löfgren

01 - Mr. Minor (Bertil Lövgren)
02 - Sweet Alva (Staffan Abeleen)
03 - Bröllop Ett (Lars Färnlöf)
04 - Snabba Samban (Bertil Lövgren)
05 - Approximativ Moral (Staffan Abeleen)
06 - Turnelivets Vedermödor (Bertil Lövgren)

2008-07-17T02:23:00.005+01:00

Sun Ra & His Cosmo Drama Arkestra
Live From Soundscape
DIW 388 (CD, 1994)

Disc 1 (DIW-388):
Astro Black [Sun Ra] (11:52)
When There Is No Sun [Sun Ra] (4:04)
Living in the Space Age [Sun Ra] (2:02)
Keep Your Sunny Side Up [Sun Ra] (2:52)
D.27 [aka: Discipline 27] [Sun Ra] (12:36)
Watusi [Sun Ra, André Pitts, Terri Vanne Sherrill] (12:22)
Space Is the Place [Sun Ra] (7:56)
We Travel the Spaceways [Sun Ra] (7:33)
On Jupiter, the Skies Are Always Blue [Sun Ra] (6:39)

Sun Ra & His Cosmo Drama Arkestra: Walter Miller-tp; Micahel Ray-tp, voc; Vincent Chancey-frn; Charles Stephens-tb; Marshall Allen-as ; Sun Ra-p, kyb; Skeeter McFarland-eg; Damon Choice-vbs; Richard Williams-b; Luqman Ali-d; Atakatune-perc; June Tyson-voc, dance. Recorded in concert at Soundscape, NYC, 11 November 1979. [Personnel from liner notes, with adjustments by Moudry.]

Disc 2 (DIW-388B):
The Possibility of Altered Destiny lecture by Sun Ra (72:39)

Sun Ra-lecture. Recorded at Soundscape, NYC, Saturday, 10 November 1979.

320 kps

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2008-07-15T12:06:00.004+01:00

Eero Koivistoinen Kvintetti & Sekstetti - Odysseus 1969

A1 Odysseus (8:01)

A2 For Fun (6:04)

A3 Traneology (5:57)

B1 Sleeping (8:09)

B2 So Nice (7:34)

B3 Country Jive (5:26)

Saxophone - Eero Koivistoinen

Flute, Saxophone [Tenor] - Juhani Aaltonen

Drums - Reino Laine

Piano - Pentti Hietanen

Bass - Pekka Sarmanto

Trumpet - Bertil Lövgren

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This one not to be missed , title track is an absolute killer

2008-07-15T10:47:00.002+01:00

"Curved-Air breathes fresh air"

Fans of Actuel's Rainbow Over Curved Air blog will be delighted to see that he has revived the site for people wanting access to the archives

HERE

2008-07-15T02:56:00.025+01:00

JAMES BLOOD ULMER - Revealing
Recorded 1977, NYC
Released on In + Out Records, 1990

Vinyl RIP 320

JAMES BLOOD ULMER - GUITAR
CECIL MCBEE - BASS
DOUG HAMMOND - DRUMS
GEORGE ADAMS - TENOR SAX

1. Revealing - 8:15
2. Raw Groove - 8:49
3. Overtime 9:01
4. Love Nest 10:05

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2008-07-14T19:47:00.007+01:00

Don Menza - First Flight

Catalyst, 1977

Don Menza - Tenor and Soprano saxophones

Frank Rolsolino - Trombone

Alan Broadbent - piano, Fender Rhodes, string synth

Tom Azarello - Bass

Nick Ceroli - Drums

Paulinho Da Costa - Percussion

Claudio Slon - Percussion

Mayo Tiana - Trombone on "Samba De Rollins"

Frank Strazzeri - Piano on "Ballad Of The Matador"

2008-07-14T19:33:00.004+01:00

Brother Ah World Music Ensemble ~ Celebration
Music of four continents in a Afro Jazz setting

EGYPT (Brother Ah)
WADE IN THE WATER (American Spiritual, arranged by Brother Ah)
AFRICAN CHANT (Mandinka Tribe, Senegal)
ROKUDAN NO SHIRABE (17th Century Japanese)
MOUNT FUJIMARO (Brother Ah)
GLOBAL FUSION RAP (Brother Ah and R. Hamlett)
DJEMBE JAM (Impromtu)
CELEBRATION (Brother Ah)

Brother Ah - flute, African winds, percussion
Orcuato Zamora - Spanish guitar
Yoko Okamoto - Koto
Tiba - bass, shekere
Evin Campbell - marimba, percussion
Mani - vocals, percussion
Plus eighteen other instrumentalists and vocalists

Meet Brother Ah :
Born in North Carolina in 1934 and raised in the south Bronx, Brother Ah was playing jazz trumpet in local clubs with legendary alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons by the time he was fifteen. He went on to study classical French horn at the Manhattan School of Music and then at the Vienna State Academy. Returning fromAustria in 1958, he played with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, and numerous Broadway theater orchestras. At the same time, he became one of the most sought after jazz French horn players in New York, performing and recording throughout the sixties and early seventies with major artists such as Gil Evans, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Sun Ra, Dizzy Gillespie, Eric Dolphy, John Lewis, and Max Roach.
In the late sixties, Brother Ah's interest in non-Western music intensified, starting with studies of Indian and Japanese music. Moving to Dartmouth College in 1970 gave him even more opprotunity to hear and play with non-Western musicians. Brother Ah spent 1972 in Ghana, a year of spiritual and musical transformation. Soon after returning to the United States in early 1973, he concieved a music that fused Third World traditions with jazz and European elements. He almost immediately started composing and performing this new music with his New York group, The Sounds of Awareness. Within another year the group recorded an album, Move Ever Onward , almost certainly the pioneering recording of what is now know as world (or multi-cultural) music.
In 1974, Brother Ah took another teaching position at Brown University and then, in 1982, moved to the Levine School Of Music in Washington D.C. Over this entire period he created, performed and refined the continuing stream of compositions that form the repertoire of the World Music Ensemble. In addition to leading the Ensemble, Brother Ah is currently teaching at primary and university levels, lecturing at The Smithsonian Institution and doing a weekly radio show on global music and jazz.

2008-07-14T15:28:00.007+01:00

Pachora - Unn (Knitting Factory 230) 1998

Chris Speed - Clarinet
Brad Shepik - Tambura, Electreic Saz, Banjar, Tres
Skuli Sverrisson - bass, bajo sexto
Jim Back - snare and bass drum, dumbek, percussion

1. Unn (3:38)
2. PItta (4:42)
3. Dratch (3:20)
4. Invocation (7:00)
5. Kaponata (4:13)
6. Riff (6:51)
7. My Life Is A Nostalgia (5:36)
8. Trakitarsna (8:13)
9. Laz (2:19)
10. Idorna (5:05)
11. Previzaniko Syrto (6:07)
12. UAE (6:21)
13. Didou (:59)

Well the good news is that this comes from BBS who is now out of hospital and returns by not only bringing us all a little world jazz with a spiritual bent, but also becomes a full time member at El Reza
Swift recovery my friend and welcome

2008-07-11T12:00:00.003+01:00

Roy Brooks ~ Beat

1. Homestretch
2. If You Could See Me Now
3. Passin' the Buck
4. Soulin'
5. Soulsphere
6. My Secret Passion

Recorded for Berry Gordy's short-lived Workshop Jazz imprint, Roy Brooks' first album finds him working with Horace Silver Quintet colleagues Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, and Eugene Taylor alongside Detroit contemporaries George Bohannon and Hugh Lawson

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2008-07-08T13:29:00.008+01:00

Book of Moses Part II ~ Narration by Charlton Heston

Finally we get the second part of Greg's extraordinary conceptual mix, part I can be found HERE

The tracklist can be found in the comments however a couple of the featured tracks come from these albums, if anyone has either, would be greatly appreciated

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2008-07-07T09:31:00.007+01:00

Kamau Daa'ood ~ Leimert Park

Kamau Daa'ood, storyteller, singer & poet fronted Horace Tapscotts' Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, he also performed with Build An Ark and appeared on albums from Dwight Trible and Derf Reklaw

Another great post from Greg and while on the subject of contributions do check in the "Wants & Contributions" comments as E-mile and Corvimax have posted some great albums in there recently

1. Liemert Park
2. Tears
3. Her
4. Deep River in Her Voice
5. Balm of Gilead
6. Sunbathing in My Tears
7. The Men
8. Liberator of the Spirit
9. World Music
10. Ancestral Echoes
11. Army of Healers
12. Art Blakey's Drumsticks

Billy Higgins - vocals, guitar, drums
Karen Briggs - violin
Munyungo Jackson - percussion
Willie Jones III - drums
Roberto Miranda - bass
Phil Vieux - tenor saxophones, bass clarinet
Carmen Bradford
Kamau Daaood - spoken vocals
Dwight Trible - vocals
Nate Morgan

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2008-07-03T12:15:00.007+01:00

Brother Ah ~ Move Ever Onward

Move Ever Onward finds Brother Ah and family embracing the song form and extending his afrophonic take on world music, funky kozmic groove, black psychedelia and soul music that is at once urgent and meditative. Originally released in 1975 privately on Brother Ah's own Divine Records label, Move Ever Onward feature his 25 piece sound awareness ensemble on an exotic array of instruments (sitar, tabla, koto, pan flute, Shahuhachi, African percussions, kora, etc.) improvising and backing some of the choicest transcendental, funky vocal cuts you're ever likely to hear.

If you enjoyed Move Ever Onward, make sure to listen to THIS

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2008-07-02T17:44:00.005+01:00

Teruo Nakamura - Unicorn

Ryo Kawasaki - Mirror of my mind

Many thanks to wara katsu you can now find more j-jazz within the comments

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2008-07-01T12:12:00.012+01:00

Kiyoshi Sugimoto ~ Babylonia Wind

This album is one from the "Japanese Rare Groove Series". If anyone has Sugimoto's other release "Country Dream" it woud be greatly appreciated. You can catch some more of Sugimoto's guitar playing with Terumasa Hino HERE, he also features on many albums by Hino Terumasa

1. Babylonia Wind
2. MRS Darius
3. Rosetta Stone
4. Colsabard Hill
5. Hieroglyph

# Cabinboy has just posted another couple from this series which can be found in the comments, please make sure to thank him

Takeshi Inomata & His Sound Limited - Sound OF Sound L.T.D. 1970

Takeshi Inomata & His Sound Limited L.T.D. - Drum Method

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2008-06-29T15:25:00.004+01:00

HOT ISLANDS ~ Fumio Karashima
Rec Tokyo 1978

Fumio Karashima(Pf),Miroslav Vitous(B)
George Ohtsuka(Ds),Mabumi Yamaguchi(Sax)

1.By Road(Fumio Karashima)
2.Hot Islands(Fumio Karashima)
3.Chardin Squere(G.Ohtsuka&F.Karashima)
4.American Tango(Miroslav Vitous)
5.Breeze(Mabumi Yamaguchi)
6.Merry-Go-Round(Mabumi Yamaguchi)

Fumio Karashima Discography

Posted by cabinboy

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2008-06-29T11:50:00.003+01:00

Blue Monk Rec 1991 Munich Germany

1 Blue Monk (3:12)
2 Ask Me Now (4:55)
3 Presto V.H. (5:03)
4 Body & Soul (7:07)
5 Ellingtonia (3:04)
6 Bright Mississippi (6:51)
7 Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues (7:36)
8 Mr. Jelly Roll (3:44)
9 Kaiso (6:32)
10 Ballad For The Blackman (11:29)

David Murray - ts, b-cl
Aki Takase - piano

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2008-06-28T13:28:00.004+01:00

Check out Lalibela from The Pyramids posted by Heiku HERE

And thanks to El Goog's directions you may be interested in grabbing
The Pyramids third album, Birth Speed Merging from HERE

2008-06-27T11:35:00.003+01:00

Oracy ~ The Positive Force with the Ade Olatunji
Pamoja Records 1977

From the liner notes
"This album seems to cover every aspect of our lives as Afrikan people, Love, the struggle for land, a tribute to a fallen warrior, and all in a joyous manner. Forceful and high spirited this is feel good music but its also do good music. Do yourself some good and listen"

Jenbu Gonvi Bass
Jay Jones Sax & Flute
Dave McMurray Sax
Darryl Pierce Drums
Matthew Rhodes Piano
Seyoum Percussion
Frank Garcia Vocal
The Malaika Wachunga Vocals
Debra Channel Vocal
Ade Olatunji Spoken Word

If I remember this album was posted some years back on Church #9 blog but its one that definitly deserves fresh listening so here is a new recording posted very kindly by Greg

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2008-06-26T17:20:00.002+01:00

From one of the tracks featured in Gregs previous "Books of Moses" mix, Sawanotsuru has kindly posted the complete album from
The World's Experience Orchestra - Beginning of a New Birth

Get it HERE

2008-06-25T14:29:00.003+01:00

Mabumi Yamaguchi ~ Mabumi 1981 PAP-25004

１．THALIA (Mabumi Yamaguchi)
２．MERRY-GO-ROUND (Mabumi Yamaguchi)
３．ILLUSION (Mabumi Yamaguchi)
４．CLEARWAYS （Tony Williams）
５．VOICES OF THE NIGHT (Mabumi Yamaguchi)
６．WIZARD (Mabumi Yamaguchi)

MABUMI YAMAGUCHI（Tenor,Soprano Sax）
KENNY KIRKLAND（Piano,Fender Rhordes,Prophet-5,Mini Moog）
MIROSLAV VITOUS（Bass,Electric-bass）
TONY WILLIAMS（Drums）

Posted by Cabinboy Many Thanks

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