May I know wtf you are listening to this month?

Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
Reprise Records, 1970 (mid-70s issue)

#np Joe Henderson, "Y Todavia La Quiero" Relaxin' At Camarillo Contemporary Records, 1981

Joe Henderson - tenor sax
Tony Dumas - bass
Chick Corea - piano
Peter Erskine - drums

#np Joan Shelley, "Bed in the River" [single] self-released, 2020

A collaborative song. Max Porter wrote the words and Joan Shelley wrote the music around them. We offer it freely as a gift to celebrate the festival of Beltane, the height of spring, and May Day.

In a bed in the river I met with a swan, and held it while it died
The swan was just one thing I carried along,
The bodies of old things, poisons and cloth,
This tar, this plastic, my constant resistance,
I am the river, my lover, my distance.

In a while, flee with me please, to the woods.
Hibernation envy, you suffer, my sweet,
You stare at the sky and I'll stare at my feet.
This hedge, this sheet, your seamless resistance,
I am the river, to give you assistance.

credits

released May 1, 2020
Joan Shelley - guitar, vocals, percussion
Nathan Salsburg - guitar

Cover photo & lyrics by Max Porter

Friends, of note today on the indie music platform Bandcamp: 

Today, Support Artists Impacted By The Covid-19 Pandemic

>> https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser

I have bought a couple items from some favorite artists, since 100% of revenues go to the artists on the Bc platform today. But, if you don’t necessarily use the site/app, I encourage you to use their fantastic SEARCH, find some (legit, for-sure the artists’s) pages that you find some digital (or physical!) media that you enjoy, and consider making a purchase from an independent music artist !! 

I went with some old stand-bys / favorites, like the Joan Shelley above, but I urge anyone reading this to even possibly check if some of your own favorite artists are up on their (perfectly likely) that - in lieu of being able to GTTS - you SUPPORT the musicians (or artists, non-profits, local shops, or restaurants) that you love!

#np Alice Coltrane, "Lovely Sky Boat" A Monastic Trio Impulse Records, 1968 (2014 reissue)

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John Coltrane - Expression
Impulse! Records, 1967

John Coltrane - tenor sax
Alice Coltrane - piano
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Rashied Ali - drums
Pharoah Sanders - piccolo

https://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-tubbys

https://nathansalsburg.bandcamp.com/

Joe Farrell - Outback
CTI Records, 1972

Joe Farrell - tenor and soprano sax / flute and alto flute / piccolo
Elvin Jones - drums
Chick Corea - electric piano
Buster Williams - bass
Airto Moreira - percussion

Blue Mitchell - Vital Blue
Mainstream Records, 1971

Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Walter Bishop - piano
Stan Gilbert - bass
Doug Sides - drums
Joe Henderson - flute & tenor sax
Ernie Watts - tenor sax
Susaye Greene - vocal effects

#np The Supremes, "Come See About Me" Where Did Our Love Go Motown Records, 1964

Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes - Astral Traveling
Flying Dutchman Records, 1973

Lonnie Liston Smith - piano, electric piano
Cecil McBee - bass
David Lee, Jr. - drums
Badal Roy - tabla
Sonny Morgan - conga, percussion
James Morgan - conga, percussion
Geeta Vashi - tamboura
George Barron - soprano and tenor saxophones
Joe Beck - guitar

#np The Beach Boys, "Surf's Up" Surf's Up Reprise / Brothers Records, 1971

Duke Pearson - It Could Only Happen With You
Blue Note Records, 1974

Duke Pearson - acoustic & electric piano
Flora Purim - vocalist
Jerry Dodgion - C-flute on "Emily"
Al Gibbons - alto flute and alto sax [misspelt 'Dodgron' on the liner]
Hermeto Pascoal - C-flute ('all tunes except "Emily"') / 'Hermeto plays all flute solos, guitar on "Stormy", and acoustic bass on "Lost In The Stars"')
Theo - guitar ('plays guitar on all tunes except "Hermeto" and "Lost In The Stars"; plays acoustic bass on "Hermeto"')
Burt Collins - trumpet
Joe Shepley - trumpet
Kenny Rupp - trombone
Bob Cranshaw - acoustic and Fender bass
Mike Roker - drums

** ^ ABOVE NOTE "misspelt 'Dodgron' on the liner" should lie next to Jerry Dodgion NOT Al Gibbons !!

Amalia Rodrigues - The World's Greatest (Fado: The Tragic and Fateful Songs of Portugal)
Kapp Records, 1963

Lefty Cardenas Y Sus Rayos - Los Problemas Del Mojado
Disco Firmamento, 1980

Gato Barbieri - Fenix
Flying Dutchman Records, 1971

Gato Barbieri - tenor saxophone
Na Ná - birimbau & conga
Gene Golden - conga & bongo drums
Lenny White, III - drums
Joe Beck - electric guitar ('on "Tupac Amaru" only')
Ron Carter - electric bass
Lonnie Liston Smith - piano & electric piano

Vince Guaraldi - Alma-Ville
Warner Bros. Records, 1969

Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Bay Head
Three Lobed Recordings, 2017

Steve Gunn - guitars
John Truscinski - drums, synths

>> anyone? 

>> asking for myself 

lol, rasmatarded:

Your name must’ve been ‘nobody’ since the day you were born. 

Sorry, what was the question? Oh, yeah ... 

B o b b y H u t c h e r s o n & H a r o l d L a n d

San Francisco

 
Antônio Carlos Jobim - The Composer of Desafinado, Plays
Verve Records, 1963

Hampton Hawes - This Guy's In Love With You
Freedom / Black Lion Records, 1974 (US issue, '75 Freedom/Arista)

Hampton Hawes - piano
Henry Franklin - bass
Mike Carvin - drums

A look at Q-Tip's massive vinyl collection

https://youtu.be/ZHPWwTVlmMc

2:18 mark - he pulls out a test pressing for an extremely rare film soundtrack by Herbie Hancock. Here's the trailer from that film:

https://youtu.be/SLKSyy5AwtQ

#np Hampton Hawes, "The Camel" This Guy's In Love With You (Live At The Monmatre) Freedom Records 1975

#np Silver Scrolls, “Walk Two - I (Nature’s Promise)” Music for Walks Three Lobed Recordings, 2020 [single]

>> Hampton Hawes and Charlie Haden duets album

As Long As There’s Music, a late 70s on Artists House? Beautiful, contemplative, sometimes lively. I have a really nice copy, too - with the neat and interesting insert, featuring decent liners and - more awesome - some copies of a couple the tunes on there. Solid spin. 

If that’s your jam, let me recommend Mal Waldron and David Friesen’s Encounters, early or mid 80s, on Muse. Awesome title, same vein, with some cool overdubbing or something where Frisen is also playing shakuhachi (sp.) over his own bass. Sick disc. 

#np Harold Land, "Mtume" A New Shade of Blue Mainstream Records, 1971

Hurro, Daylight !!

#np  The Harold Land / Blue Mitchell Quintet, "Inner Voice" Mapenzi Concord Jazz, 1977

  This album right here is the straight truth! One of my first jazz LPs and remains an all- time f a v ..

H E A V Y lifting by Harold Land and Blue Mitchell, couple of G I A N T S !!  Plus Tootie Heath !?!! What !!  Look 'em up!

M A P E N Z I

#np Luis Gasca (feat. Joe Henderson), "New Orleans Strut" (Jack DeJohnette !!) Born to Love You Fantasy, 1974

FUNKY STUFF

Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction
Columbia / CBS Records, 1972

Asha Puthli - vocals
Ornette Coleman - alto sax, trumpet, violin
Ed Blackwell - drums  
Billy Higgins - drums
Dewey Redman - tenor sax
Gerard Schwarg - trumpet
Carmon Fornarotto - trumpet
Charlie Haden - bass
Don Cherry - pocket trumpet
David Henderson - poet
Bobby Bradford - tenor sax

My focus has been WAY TOO NARROW in how I approach music lately; these past few days I've been considering a different perspective, and this LP has helped to crystallize a new path on a cold, sunny Friday morning !!

Dylan discusses his friendship with Ornette Coleman, and why he felt an affinity with the free-jazz icon.

A few years ago I went to one of your concerts and found myself sitting next to Ornette Coleman. After the show I went backstage and there were some very famous rock musicians and actors waiting around, but the only person you invited into your dressing room was Ornette. Do you feel a connection with those jazz guys?

Yeah, I always have. I knew Ornette a little bit and we did have a few things in common. He faced a lot of adversity, the critics were against him, other jazz players that were jealous. He was doing something so new, so groundbreaking, they didn’t understand it. It wasn’t unlike the abuse that was thrown at me for doing some of the same kind of things, although with different forms of music.

#np Milt Jackson, "People Make the World Go 'Round" Sunflower CTI, 1973

J a m m e r feat. VERY vibey keys from Herbie Hancock, some choice and funky from Freddie Hubbard, and Mr. Ron Carter holding it together with a singularly Ron Carter groove and the incomparable Billy Cobham kickin' away underneath.

I'm pretty convinced that Bags' arrangement (or, possibly [I guess] Don Sebesky's?) here is the inspiration for the cover that Merl and Jerry brought out with Legion of Mary.

#np Jean-Luc Ponty, "Open Strings" Open Strings MPS/BASF, 1972

 f r e a k y

#np Duke Jordan Quintet, "Duke's Delight" Duke's Delight Inner City Records, 1976

All-star lineup; beautifully composed straight-ahead; chill tunes for another chilly morning.

#np Ron Carter, "Gypsy" Parade Milestone, 1979

w o w. is this "straight ahead"? check out this l i n e u p

Morning Glory - s\t
Antilles Records, 1973 (70s US issue?)

John Surman - bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, synthesizers
John Marshall - drums
Terje Rypdal - guitar
Chris Laurence - bass
John Taylor - piano, electric piano
Malcolm Griffiths - trombone

Started with the above Morning Glory, really rock-centric and also quite free and Bitches Brew-esque with sick bass clarinet;moving into underrated G O A T material with a great collaboration here:

Richard Davis - Harvest
Muse Records, 1979

And keeping the Euro thing going on with this piece ..

Franco Ambrosetti Quintet With Bennie Wallace - Close Encounter
Inner City Records, 1979 (originally Enja, 1978)

... crazy spiritual on the last track, "Rumba Orgiastica", penned by Joachim Kühn. Sleeper heat, here.

#np Luis Gasca (feat. Joe Henderson), "Dr. Gasca" Born to Love You Fantasy Records, 1974 

#np
Jack DeJohnette's New Directions, "Bayou Fever" New Directions ECM, 1978

#np
Antônio Carlos Jobim, "Sabiá" Stone Flower CTI, 1970  

Booker Ervin, "A Day to Mourn" The Freedom Book Prestige Records, 1964

#np
The Cedar Walton Trio / Special Guest Star Clifford Jordan, "Down In Brazil" A Night At Boomer's, Vol. 1 Muse Records, 1973

#np #cheapheat
Herbie Mann - Stone Flute
Embryo, 1970

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Bill Quist - Piano Solos of Erik Satie
Windham Hill, 1979

#np #cheapheat #cheeseburgerspiritual #sonnyfortune #busterwilliams #spiritualjazz
Kenny Barron, "Sunshower" Innocence Wolf Records, 1978

>> amazing guitar playing

.. Please. Check this (sick-ass, fuzzed-out, fusion version of Herbie Hancock's jazz standard) out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQXgo7CLXTY

>> Gary Boyle, "Maiden Voyage" ('for Brian Auger') The Dancer Gull Records, 1977

(I do not have a physical copy of this but now need one after hearing that...)

^ Good band! I had the pleasure to hear them operating under the moniker Electric Masada (I believe Ikue Mori was with them), and when the music didn't careen over the side of the Mountains of Madness in fuzzed-out psychedelic bliss, mostly they did operate in that exotica / lounge feel. Sounded amazing.

#np #latin #spiritual #stanleyclarke #santana
Luis Gasca, "Spanish Gypsy" For Those Who Chant Blue Thumb Records, 1972

The Bob Magnasson Quintet (featuring Joe Farrell) - Revelation
Discovery Records, 1979

Bob Magnasson - acoustic bass
Joe Farrell - tenor & soprano saxophones, flute
Bill Mays - acoustic & electric piano
John Guerin - drums
Jim Plank - percussion

hahahaha sick burn

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#np
George Benson - White Rabbit
Creed Taylor Incorporated, 1972 (worthless '79 reissue)
#cheapheat #slick #RIPbluelight #smoothjazz #burnyoursweatervest #RIPsensibleGOP

what the hell was this doing on Thom's computer ... in a folder labeled

666

#ikr! #omg #GOPsatanists

Before I get angry emails from (or have my email added on to any further spam lists by..) all the Gillian Welch / David Rawlings fans out there just know that it was just a pass at a joke, of course I respect David Rawlings' guitar prowess, and no comment on whether or not I successfully hacked the "666" folder of our sweater-vested resident libertardian's computer.

Yes. Relax. This cheeseburger's on me:

George Benson, "El Mar (The Sea)" White Rabbit CTI, 1972

#smooth #jazz

Stanley Turrentine - Sugar
Creed Taylor Incorporated, 1971

Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone 
Billy Kaye - drums
Butch Cornell - organ
Lonnie L. Smith, Jr. - electric piano
George Benson - guitar
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Ron Carter - bass
Richard "Pablo" Landrum - conga

#soul-jazz #smooth #jazz

lol, starting the day drinking early are we?

John Klemmer - Constant Throb
ABC / Impulse! Records, 1971

John Klemmer - tenor & soprano saxophones, Fender/Rhodes electric piano, echoplex piano percussion
Don Menza - alto flute & bass clarinet
Mike Wofford - Fender/Rhodes electric piano & clavinet
Mike Lang - piano and Fender/Rhodes electric piano
Howard Roberts - guitar
Reggie Johnson - bass
Wilton Felder - Fender bass
Shelley Manne - drums
Jim Keltner - drums
Gary Coleman - percussion
Mark Stevens - percussion
Marni Nix - voice

#spiritual #soul #skronk #protest

>> Jim  Kelner. Kewl.
How fast can hyou post another?

lol, just as soon as this one is done.

>> Latex doesn't really want to know what You're listening to. <<

lol, why the edits, RRG? How do you know what I really want lol! Why are you such a three legged bitch ??

Trying to conduct a thread here. Pretty fun! You feel like contributing something instead of just being a troll jackoff, like Thom?

>> John Klemmer - Constant Throb ABC / Impulse! Records, 1971

Side 2.

>> edits

Enjoy your morning, "Nurse" !

#spiritualgoodtime

 
>> mfw the new wax isn't in today's mail

Sup DAYLIGHT !!!

that one’s easy: they don’t zone anymore because the admin over at garbagezone finally pulled out a firehose on that dumpster fire lol

Hahaha; okay, glad we got that nasty little thing out of the way!

#np
Laszlo Gardony, "Free" The Secret Antilles / Island Records, 1988

Have been enjoying this one a lot over the past few weeks, part of a wave of piano trios thing I've had going on. This is a sleeper hit here, all of the tracks are by the session leader (an otherwise unknown European pianist I'd never heard of before picking this title up) and all kind of have a similar ECM vibe going on. Miroslav Vituous is the bassist here, and he cleans up all over the place. The drummer is no slouch either. This is one of those titles that if you find it in your local record shop, can be had for $5 (or in this instance a lot less; think my NM copy came from the $1 bin) and is still just stacked fat and full of great (modal, borderline spiritual, post-bop) music. Great stuff !!

Damn, never seen that Sun Ra doc, thanks for the heads up. Looks fabulous.

#np
Hampton Hawes, "Double Trouble" Playin in' the Yard (Live at the 1973 Montreaux Jazz Festival) Prestige, 1973

Is that right? Holy shit, I had no idea!

>> A Joyful Noise is an amazing film that Stanley Kubrick released in 1980 (source: Joyful Noise (film) - Wikipedia) [!!!]

#np
Cal Tjader, "Mindoro" Amazonas Fantasy, 1976
#fusion #airto #70svibes

Well... nobody asked, but thank you for caring!

Enjoy another beautiful mornin', Nurse!

>> tfw you're waiting for the new wax in the mail but it's been delayed a day...

Jack Kerouac / Steve Allen - Poetry For The Beat Generation
Hanover / Dot Records, 1959 (Hanover, not Dot)

Jack Kerouac - poems, written by
Steve Allen - piano, written by

October In The Railroad Earth     7:09
Deadbelly     1:05
Charlie Parker     3:45
The Sounds Of The Universe Coming In My Window     3:17
One Mother     0:49
Goofing At The Table     1:45
Bowery Blues     3:56
Abraham     1:17
Dave Brubeck     0:31
I Had A Slouch Hat Too One Time     6:12
The Wheel Of The Quivering Meat Conception     1:55
McDougal Street Blues     3:23
The Moon Her Majesty     1:36
I'd Rather Be Thin Than Famous     0:37

Max Roach / New Quintet - Deeds, Not Words
Riverside Records (Contemporary Series), 1958

Max Roach - drums
Booker Little - trumpet
George Coleman - tenor saxophone
Ray Draper - tuba
Art Davis - bass

George Coleman goes on to play in the Miles band for a minute right before Wayne Shorter replaces him to crystalize the classic Second Quintet.

Not a huge fan of tuba. Challenging and fun stuff here, though; "hard bop" is kind of a misnomer as Roach is clearly pushing his bandmates into a kind of modal space where they can solo more freely, aggressively. Tough stuff and hot players. Flavors of Latin right from the first tune ("You Stepped Out Of A Dream") and polyrhthmic excellence throughout.

I'm sure there are a ton of cats from around that period that Roach was playing with, but I think the lineage of tenor men in his band goes HAROLD LAND (underrated G.O.A.T.) > SONNY ROLLINS > GEORGE COLEMAN.  Not bad !!

Curtis Fuller - Smokin' 
Mainstream Records, 1972

Aquarium Drunkard :: L i n k ::

#np
Bobby Hutcherson, "Verse" Stick-Up! Blue Note Records, 1968
#allstar #latenite #jazz #vinyl

#np
Popol Vuh ‎– Tantric Songs
Celestial Harmonies, 1981
#krautrock #ambient #notrollmo #FlorianFricke

#np
Makaya McCraven‎ – Universal Beings
International Anthem Recording Co., 2018
#newarrival #spiritual #contemporaryjazz

> tfw the wax FINALLY show up in the mail and you just itchin' to spin it

Sons of Kemet are a British jazz group formed in 2011 that consists of Shabaka Hutchings, Tom Skinner, Theon Cross, and Eddie Hick. Seb Rochford quit Sons of Kemet in late 2016. The group uses saxophone and clarinet (Hutchings), tuba (Cross), and revolving cast of two drummers (Skinner, Hick) to make their music and plays a mixture of jazz, rock, Caribbean folk, and African music. Cross replaced Oren Marshall on tuba.

Sons of Kemet.

np:
Miles Davis, "Right Off" A Tribute to Jack Johnson Columbia, 1971

"Yesternow"
>> A Tribute to Jack Johnson

np:
Charlie Haden / Hampton Hawes - As Long As There's Music
Artists House, 1979
#brilliance #quietude #cheapheat

#np
Freddie Hubbard - Keep Your Soul Together
Creed Taylor Incorporated, 1973

#np
McCoy Tyner - Sama Layuca
Milestone Records, 1974

Oh, snap.

Tatters with the #cheapheat alert!!

#np Sonny Rollins, "Sais" (Mtume) Horn Culture Milestone Records, 1973

Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone 
Walter Davis, Jr. - piano
Masuo - guitar
Bob Cranshaw - electric bass
David Lee - drums
Mtume - percussion

I am so glad this heater arrived in the mail today. Not exactly a reference copy, but I've been hungry to have this on wax since sampling the above linked tune some time ago. I haven't heard a ton of '70s Sonny that I go crazy for, but this is absolutely ripping spiritual jazz with fiery yet restrained (big-eared, attenuated) contributions by all. Seek this one out at all costs...

#np
Terry Plumieri - He Who Lives in Many Places
Airborne Records, 1975 (private press issued later but recorded 1971)

Oof-ah.
Brillant, out stuff. Look up the lineup. I'm not gonna type it for you, ballers.
Opened up a sealed copy just now that arrived by post scratched some kind of psycho-spiritual itch, goddamn.

New wormholes in space and time pop up all over this LP.

#np
The Quintet - Future Tense, United Artists 1971

Another title I just liberated from its factory shrink. Dead silent, flat pressing. Sounds awesome.
See if you can spot the Dead connection from the lineup of this cheesy but entirely listenable session of badass garage rockers and a couple of their buds doing some funky / ambitious arrangements.

>> P-funk show from 78

Wow haha who the funk is that in the wig and heels at the 1' 04" mark??

INSANE groove.

Great vid.

#np

Sam Morrison - Dune
Inner City, 1978

Got both kinds of music: electric and acoustic fusion.

#np
Chick Corea / Return to Forever - Return to Forever
ECM Records, 1972

Classic.

Elsewhere in 1972 ..

#np
Dollar Brand / Abdullah Ibrahim - Ancient Africa
Japo Records, 1974 (solo piano & flute recorded live at Jazzhus Montmartre 1972)

lol!

#np
Sonny Stitt & Bunky Green - Soul in the Night
Cadet, 1966 (reissue)

https://youtu.be/N2tH1dIwjhQ

6er, post some more jerry garcia albums

so deep bro

https://youtu.be/OFui6K18zgk

a different kind of "alternative version"

learn something today

do your soul a favor

lol

take your stupid bullshit elsewhere

this is a thread for music not your political caca

https://youtu.be/_3S1dhpAF48

post some more absolute trash