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Thelonious Monk could walk from his flat to New York s famous Philharmonic Hall on the corner of 64th Street and Broadway when he made his very first appearance there with his Big Band in December 1963 And the other musicians could get there on the underground Phil Woods Steve...
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Many a musical career began in the gospel church choirs of the black communities but that of Donny Hathaway must certainly be one of the most meteoric Rolling Stone magazine named him the 49th greatest singer of 100 of all time though this might sound somewhat abstract But just the...
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Hardly any other musician has released so little as Hasaan Ibn Ali born William Henry Langford Jr in 1931 who died in 1980 Just seven titles in all are his complete output all of which he composed himself all of them on the present Atlantic...
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With his film The Graduate which was crowned with an Oscar and five Golden Globes director Mike Nichols created far more than just the story of the erotic initiation of the college graduate Benjamin Not only the scenario but also the production modalities were revolutionary For the very first time...
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When Janis Joplin died in October 1970 at the early age of 27 thus involuntarily confirming the beatnik adage live fast love hard die young it was only a matter of time before she was crowned the Queen of Rock Of greater importance than this posthumous entry into rock n...
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Andy Bey was one of the most sought after vocalists in the era of jazz fusion Between 1968 and 1973 he was first choice as a studio singer for Max Roach Duke Pearson Horace Silver Gary Bartz and Stanley Clarke to mention but a few His warm and engaging baritone...
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Allen Toussaint had it all around him the voices and spirits of black music rhythm n blues funk and soul He was born in New Orleans and grew up there the birthplace of jazz As from 1960 he worked as a record producer and an A amp R man at...
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The liner notes for The Inner Mounting Flame were written by the guru Sri Chinmoy now that s a real sales point The music too burns right from the very first note to the last as though it were licked by the flames of hell fire The wealth of ideas...
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To attempt to categorise Carlos Santana s music is for the prophets of rock music rather like dancing on the edge of a volcano While the New York Times acclaimed the band as a reincarnation of Dizzy Gillespie s Cuban jazz bigband from the end of the Forties the specialist...
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We can thank our lucky stars that Nina Simone was well aware of her musical environment and enjoyed experimenting with it despite her notorious eccentric personality This was the only reason that so much basic repertoire traditional blues numbers black work songs and favourite white show melodies all filled with...
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After the break up of John Mayall s Bluesbreakers in the summer of 1967 the time seemed ripe for Peter Green John McVie and Mick Fleetwood to take their leave from raw British rock n roll The newly established band Fleetwood Mac first turned to black blues and their art...
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The second studio album from Albert King Born Under A Bad Sign was released in 1967 King s first album for Stax Records would change the face of American music with the modernization of the blues...
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Many of Santana s rock addict fans could well have understood the inviting word Welcome on the white LP cover as an attempt to break away from the spiritual aura of his previous album Love Devotion Surrender And the musicians certainly managed to produce a rich Latin feeling with such...
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The term free jazz was already in existence but it had a quite different meaning namely jazz without paying for an entrance ticket The album Free Jazz however was intended to lend its name to a quite different style of jazz Free playing now this meant that no one was...
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When someone such as Ry Cooder who delved deeply into traditional sources just names his LP Jazz it is unlikely that one will hear avant garde music Actually in the numbers gathered together here the investigative guitar man dedicated himself more or less to almost forgotten music Historically informed yet...
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Immortal samba and its rhythmic relatives is on the one hand so undemanding that it manages to take off with the simplest of instruments yet on the other hand it is so concentrated that it can conjure up all manner of fantastic sound coloring With regard to these sessions that...
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For some Love Devotion Surrender is an album where exceptionally John McLaughlin plays the piano and organist Jan Hammer plays the drums For others it is the most spiritual album ever by Carlos Santana And though both disciples were shown the way and inspired by the same guru Sri Chinmoy...
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Master of the strings Al Di Meola who turn his back on over ambitious manual dexterity as in Elegant Gypsy to concentrate more on musical substance demonstrates his intensive work with the material in the follow up album Casino For example in Egyptian Danza an amalgamation of melodies which circle...
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Thanks to their first class training in funk and soul while playing in James Brown s Band Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker were the obvious choice when it came to participating in George Clinton s P Funk empire the Godfather of Soul had had an enormous influence on Clinton anyway...
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Eternity Alice Coltrane org hp el p perc arr cond Terry Harrington ts Jerome Richardson ss George Bohanon tb Oscar Brashear tp Tommy Johnson tba Hubert Laws fl Charlie Haden b Ben Riley b dr Armando Peraza cga a o When the brilliant saxophonist John Coltrane died in 1967 the...
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Commenting on this album in 1962 Billboard magazine wrote He seems to be everywhere everywhere that is but on his usual instrument Charles Mingus one of the most impressive musicians in the history of jazz doesn t play a single note on the bass for a change but leads the...
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With its three compositions by Thelonious Monk one might call this LP from 1964 3 Standards and 3 Monks The High Priest of bebop had reached a further pinnacle in his career and performed with his fantastic skilful and well rehearsed quartet at numerous festivals and concerts As if in...
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When this LP was released in 1962 it was honoured with the maximum number of stars that Downbeat the most famous of all jazz magazines could award And nota bene the recordings were already five years old Is there any better proof that the composer and arranger Charlie Mingus was...
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It might be hard to believe but there was once a jazz musician who was well known and well loved even in the global flower power pop scene and not just in San Francisco s Haight Ashbury The name was and is Charles Lloyd He appeared in the great concert...
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It is well known that comparisons seldom get to the root of the matter but in the case of Lou Reed for example they certainly reveal the unassuredness of those people who made them Is he or isn t he the Chuck Berry or Sergeant Pepper of the Seventies or...
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In the 1970s Herbie Hancock s Crossings was to be found on every IKEA record shelf in the student pads of jazz fusion fans The cover with its psychedelic touch also contributed significantly to its popularity although it was unclear where the crossing was going to take us Nevertheless the...
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The musicians are aiming high with their desire for a Super Session for it s not something that can be planned Only when the time place and audience play along when one s lucky star is shining brightly and the musicians have a good day then one of music s...
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Ever since his time with John McLaughlin s Mahavishnu Orchestra 1971 1973 the drummer Billy Cobham is one of electric fusion jazz s greatest heroes Total Eclipse was the third album he made as a leader within just a few months and here again he composed all the numbers himself...
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After his great success as a new discovery through playing on tour and in the studio with Art Blakey s creative and inspirational group the Jazz Messengers Freddie Hubbard made a dozen LPs over 16 years for Blue Note and Impulse under his own direction It was no wonder then...
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The global corporation Columbia recorded and released only two LPs with pianist Bill Evans A meagre result when one considers the numerous concerts that the new trio undertook between 1969 and 1974 Together with Eddie Gomez a phenomenon on the bass and drummer Marty Mortell the three established a firm...
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Of the three incarnations by the spiritually inspired Mahavishnu Orchestra the first is the most full bodied The enlightened John McLaughlin and his musicians were immortalized through their début album The Inner Mounting Flame which was included in the list of the 100 Best Jazz Albums a short time later...
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It was certainly a motley crew that came together with Elvin Jones the legendary ex Coltrane drummer in the NYC Atlantic Studio in March 1966 His trumpeter brother Thad was first class but Dollar Brand Abdullah Ibrahim on the piano Don Moore on the bass and sax player Hank Mobley...
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Just As I Am anyone who sets off on a late career can already have earned himself quite a reputation although in the case of Bill Withers it had had nothing to do with music at this stage Withers served for many years with the US Navy had a job...
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Except for the taping of a live performance at the Portland Festival Miles Davis s discography for 1966 only lists the recordings made for the LP Miles Smiles How strange when one considers the usual large output of Miles and his ensembles for Columbia Records in the Sixties The bass...
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What connects celebrity chefs and pop stars is their fine nose for ingredients especially when hot and spicy ones are mixed with milder elements to create an aromatic result A combination of sweet and funky is the secret of Al Green s gloriously sentimental and sensual pop songs which in...
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By the time he was aged 22 Ry Cooder was already a veteran of the music business and in great demand as a studio musician and sideman Shortly after signing a contract with Warner Music in 1969 he released his first album under his own name placing his confidence in...
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t was John Lewis pianist of the Modern Jazz Quartet who brought Ornette Coleman to the renowned Atlantic label having heard him play in Los Angeles Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz he reportedly said The present initial Atlantic album was released just in time...
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It s 1964 and the first Berlin Jazz Festival is about to reach its absolute peak the final concert on the night of Friday 25th September by Miles Davis And the European subsidiary of Columbia Records CBS couldn t wait to release this legendary event on LP The new quintet...
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Patti Smith the first published poet to move her poetry completely into rock n roll and to entice experimental rock fans into the forbidden cinema of her hallucinatory fantasy New York Times began her musical career unconventionally It took off at a poetry reading where she was backed by Lenny...
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It was a clever move by George Avakian producer at Atlantic Records to record live the Charles Lloyd Quartet during their appearance in Monterey and to release the LP under the title Forest Flower Although the hippy flower power movement tended towards a rather different...
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Pithecanthropus Erectus Jackie McLean as J R Monterose ts Mal Waldron p Charlie Mingus b Willie Jones dr It was a fairly ordinary quintet that entered the Audio Video Studios in New York City on 30 January 1956 one tenor saxophone one alto saxophone a pianist a drummer and you...
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After his early avant garde years with Blue Note Records Herbie Hancock achieved much success with pop music fans by gradually turning towards a mixture of Afro American styles in which he combined soul jazz and funk Having composed the soundtrack to Bill Cosby s animated children s show Fat...
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General opinion has it that Sonny Stitt always stood in Charlie Parker s shadow That however is unjustifiable The legendary jazz critic Nat Hentoff wrote for example Sonny has been one of the wholly involved players well known and admired for his soul and the earthiness of his message only...
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Live recordings come up with extremely different results most of them land in the rubbish bin some of them are available as bootleg copies when a star s career has ended and are passed on conspiratorially from one excited collector to another Only a very few conserve real spirit and...
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