A sort of chamber jazz, but not of the ECM kind, we have a drums-less line-up. Trumpet/Saxes/Piano/Bass. Possibly the best thing about the album is some stunning double bass from William Parker.
Christ. I don't know, TBH. I love just about everything I've heard from his 70s output (although most of what I have are live albums from later in his career). But I think the Marcus Garvey/Garvey's Ghost package is my favourite. So somewhere behind that :-) At least, MG/GG is what I play most often.
Where do you place Man in the Hills? Do you have a favourite Burning Spear album?
William Parker - I Plan To Stay A Believer. The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield
Horribly recorded, but some of my favourite free jazzers taking on possibly my favourite soul vocalist's material is just toooo good. They're having so much fun.
Grachan Moncur III. One of my favourite monikers of all time! You should listen to his music for that reason alone He has a few albums under his own name and some with alto player Jamie McLean. Every one a winner!
In which they stretch classic Blue Note hard bop and organ jazz just that little further. My wife calls it Lift Music, but I can't tell you how wrong she is!
OMFG! I missed this when it came out last year. Five CDs of Art Pepper, and over half of it I don't have, by the look of it. Promo (lots, if not all of the set is on YT):
Keeping the Mr Pepper theme - No Limit Keep forgetting about this album and then realise how good it is. Think it was his last Contemporary studio album whose recordings are always excellent.
Keeping the Mr Pepper theme - No Limit Keep forgetting about this album and then realise how good it is. Think it was his last Contemporary studio album whose recordings are always excellent.
That’s not much apart from some dodgy bootlegs that’s not worth having from late Pepper.
OMFG! I missed this when it came out last year. Five CDs of Art Pepper, and over half of it I don't have, by the look of it. Promo (lots, if not all of the set is on YT):
I bought it.
And, it's great. The best Pepper there's been for ages.
I bought this on CD a week or so ago after enjoying it on Spotti for a while. I have to say, I can't think of a better piano trio album. It's fantastic, with a brilliant ECM recording. I've moved on from War Orphans, his previous album, which is merely great!
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Mr Coltrane again in slow mode. But the brilliant Elvin Jones struggles to keep his full on mode in check,
Like everything ECM I look for on YT, it isn't there.
Instead, Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5Iuc7CuRhdsAwA1iFvkwjP?si=crGsD8X2Sgi2NmpSx3tCJQ
It's described as Songs for Saxophone and Piano, and it's absolutely riveting.
(Agree about the cover. It's terrible.)
Here is Mr Drake
Not on YT any more, of course. So Spotti, for those of you who have it:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1vKJQC0oJs0ui1EsIHf7KH?si=meQ6nqAHRem5Ou2ENfjqww
There are some great guitar and cello noises on this album. Play loud!
You should listen to his music for that reason alone
He has a few albums under his own name and some with alto player Jamie McLean. Every one a winner!
Keep forgetting about this album and then realise how good it is. Think it was his last Contemporary studio album whose recordings are always excellent.
Only Spotify again: https://open.spotify.com/album/6l5pgpvoGekLk8J9NEqho4
But a wonderful album, nonetheless.
Works better than you'd think.
0:00 Let's Start
7:55 Black Man's Cry
19:24 Ye Ye De Smell
33:04 Egbe Mi O (Carry Me I Want to Die)