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Personnel: Andrew Hill (piano); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Richard Davis (bass); Joe Chambers (drums).
Personnel: Andrew Hill (piano); Andrew Hill; Richard Davis (double bass); John Gilmore (tenor saxophone); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Joe Chambers (drums).
Liner Note Authors: Michael Cuscuna; Don Heckman.
Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (06/25/1964).
Photographer: Francis Wolff.
ANDREW! finds the avant-garde composer and pianist Andrew Hill following up his landmark 1964 LP, POINT OF DEPARTURE, with a more flowing quintet session, featuring the estimable vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and Sun Ra tenor saxophonist John Gilmore (in a rare appearance outside of the Arkestra). This is the Blue Note sound of the '60s at its best, cutting edge yet beautifully produced with room enough for full, exploratory improvisations by all concerned. Hutcherson in particular provides a warm, fluent foil to Hill's more abstract conceptions, and Gilmore's bright tone and energetically structured solos bring even more fire to the mix. Andrew Hill remained somewhat underrated throughout his career, but few musicians of the time possessed his special intellectual integrity, the mark of a true composer. ANDREW! captures him in a peak period.
Anyone familiar with Andrew Hill's music will find the cover to Andrew!!! a little bizarre, to say the least. Hill was one of the most intense and cerebral musicians on Blue Note's roster, incorporating avant-garde and modal techniques into his adventurous post-bop. The cover to Andrew!!! apparently is an attempt to humanize Hill -- it's a soft-focus close-up of a smiling Andrew Hill, who looks more like a teen idol than a serious jazz musician, and the first-name title is adorned with no less than three exclamation marks and a subtitle, "The Music of Andrew Hill," which suggests that it's an album of romantic, easy-listening standards. It's not. Andrew!!! is just as adventurous and challenging as any of his other albums, which is to Hill's credit. The pianist leads tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Joe Chambers through a set of six original songs. Often, the music has a floating, hypnotic quality, which only makes Hill's dissonance, unusual voicings, and complex arrangements more compelling than usual. Andrew!!!, if anything, is even less accessible than the previous Point of Departure, but its restless, searching quality and endlessly provocative music makes it just as successful. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Anyone familiar with Andrew Hill's music will find the cover to Andrew!!! a little bizarre, to say the least. Hill was one of the most intense and cerebral musicians on Blue Note's roster, incorporating avant-garde and modal techniques into his adventurous post-bop. The cover to Andrew!!! apparently is an attempt to humanize Hill -- it's a soft-focus close-up of a smiling Andrew Hill, who looks more like a teen idol than a serious jazz musician, and the first-name title is adorned with no less than three exclamation marks and a subtitle, "The Music of Andrew Hill," which suggests that it's an album of romantic, easy-listening standards. It's not. Andrew!!! is just as adventurous and challenging as any of his other albums, which is to Hill's credit. The pianist leads tenor saxophonist John Gilmore, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Richard Davis, and drummer Joe Chambers through a set of six original songs. Often, the music has a floating, hypnotic quality, which only makes Hill's dissonance, unusual voicings, and complex arrangements more compelling than usual. Andrew!!!, if anything, is even less accessible than the previous Point of Departure, but its restless, searching quality and endlessly provocative music makes it just as successful. [The 2005 reissue of the record includes alternate takes of "The Griots" (or "The Groits" as the back cover mis-spells it) and "Symmetry."] ~ S Andrew Hill Andrew! Songs Purchase Andrew! CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Andrew Hill Dance With Death CD (1968) Remastered
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Personnel: Andrew Hill (piano); Andrew Hill; Victor Sproles (double bass); Billy Higgins (drums); Joe Farrell (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Charles Tolliver (trumpet).
Liner Note Author: Nat Hentoff.
Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (10/11/1968).
Photographer: Francis Wolff.
Andrew Hill's Dance of Death, recorded in 1968 with a stellar band, was not issued until 1980. In the late 1960s, Blue Note was no longer the most adventurous of jazz labels. While certain titles managed to scrape through -- Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music did but only because Francis Wollf personally financed it -- many didn't. The label was firmly in the soul-jazz groove by then, and Hill's music, always on the edge, was deemed too outside for the label's roster. Musically, this is Hill at his most visionary. From hard- and post bop frames come modal and tonal inquiries of staggering complexity. Accompanied by trumpeter Charles Tolliver, saxophonist Joe Farrell, drummer Billy Higgins and bassist Victor Sproles, Hill engages, seemingly, all of his muses at once. Check out the sinister modal blues that is "Fish 'N' Rice" with its loping Eastern-tinged blues and loping horn lines around Hill's knotty fills in the head and choruses. In "Partitions" the steaming head is so rigorously tangled it's only the counterpoint of Hill's piano that makes an exit possible, with deep blues underpinnings and strident swinging soul. The title cut dances Afro-Cuban in the head, but Hill's piano is in a minor modal groove, with Higgins playing a textural, syncopated four-four as Sproles' punches on the two and four as the solos begin winding through the modes, bringing back the blues on tags. Dance of Death is a phenomenal record, one that wears its adventure and authority well. ~ Thom Jurek
Andrew Hill's Dance of Death, recorded in 1968 with a stellar band, was not issued until 1980. In the late 1960s, Blue Note was no longer the most adventurous
| | Bobby Hutcherson Oblique CD (1967) Remastered
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Personnel: Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Herbie Hancock (piano); Albert Stinson (bass instrument); Joe Chambers (drums).
Liner Note Author: Bob Blumenthal.
Recording information: New York, NY; Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
Bobby Hutcherson's second quartet session, Oblique, shares both pianist Herbie Hancock and drummer Joe Chambers with his first, Happenings (bassist Albert Stinson is a newcomer). However, the approach is somewhat different this time around. For starters, there's less emphasis on Hutcherson originals; he contributes only three of the six pieces, with one from Hancock and two from the typically free-thinking Chambers. And compared to the relatively simple compositions and reflective soloing on Happenings, Oblique is often more complex in its post-bop style and more emotionally direct (despite what the title may suggest). The latter is especially true on the two opening Hutcherson pieces, the sweetly lilting "'Til Then" and the innocent, childlike theme of "My Joy," which is reminiscent of "Little B's Poem" (save for its multi-sectioned structure). Meanwhile, Chambers' experiments with counterpoint in the context of group improvisation keep getting more evocative. The title cut is quick and driving, with lots of short, fleeting exchanges between Hutcherson and a surprisingly swinging Hancock; "Bi-Sectional" makes playful use of chromaticism in its first part, after which Hutcherson and Chambers switch between several different percussion instruments for what amounts to an artillery attack. As for the other pieces, Hutcherson's "Subtle Neptune" fuses post-bop with Brazilian rhythms, and Hancock's "Theme From 'Blow Up'" is a spare modal melody over a repeated chordal vamp, somewhat reminiscent of his classic "Maiden Voyage." All the performances are spirited enough to make the sophisticated music sound winning and accessible as well, which means that Oblique is one of the better entries in Hutcherson's Blue Note discography and on
| | Thelonious Monk At Carnegie Hall CD (2005)
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Personnel: Thelonious Monk (piano); John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Ahmed Abdul-Malik (bass instrument); Shadow Wilson (drums).
Liner Note Authors: Larry Appelbaum; Robin D.G. Kelley; Ira Gitler; Lewis Porter; Amiri Baraka; Stanley Crouch; Ashley Kahn.
Recording information: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY (11/29/1957).
Larry Appelbaum, the recording lab supervisor at the Library of Congress, came across this tape by accident while transferring the library's tape archive to digital. What a find. Forget the Five Spot recording that sounds like it was recorded inside of a tunnel from the far end. The sound here is wonderfully present and contemporary. More importantly, this band -- which also included drummer Shadow Wilson and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik -- had it right on November 29, 1957, at Carnegie Hall. The John Coltrane on this date is far more assured than he had been four months earlier on the Five Spot date and on the initial Prestige side Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane. He'd been with Monk for four months and had absorbed his complex, multivalent musical system completely. It's clear from the opening track, "Monk's Mood," where the pair play in duet, that Coltrane is confident and moving into his own. Monk feels that confidence with his nearly Baroque entrance on the tune. This is a hard-swinging band with two front-line players who know how to get the best from one another. Coltrane knows the music inside out and his solos reflect an early version of his sheets of sound methodology. Check the joyous "Crepuscule with Nellie" for the hard evidence. Coltrane's cue and Monk's arpeggios are wondrous, swinging, and full of fire and joy. Trane's fills on the melody that leads into his solo are simply revelatory, and the solo itself is brilliant. Or check Wilson's cymbal work on "Nutty" before the band kicks it in full force. Even on the knottiest of Monk's tunes, "Epistrophy," Trane shines and takes charge of his instrument while being utterly receptive t
| | Booker Ervin Tex Book Tenor CD (2005)
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Personnel: Booker Ervin (tenor saxophone); Booker Ervin; Jan Arnet (double bass); Woody Shaw (trumpet); Kenny Barron (piano); Billy Higgins (drums).
Liner Note Author: Michael Cuscuna.
Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (06/24/1968).
Tex Book Tenor was recorded in 1968 as a follow-up to Booker Ervin's debut date for Blue Note, The In Between, which was released in January of the same year. (Ervin had made two records for Pacific Jazz, which is now owned, like Blue Note, by EMI.) The album remained unreleased until 1976, when it was issued with an also unreleased Horace Parlan date on a double LP called Back from the Gig. This is its first appearance on CD. The lineup is stellar and includes Billy Higgins, Woody Shaw, Kenny Barron, and bassist Jan Arnet from Czechoslovakia. Barron and Ervin had worked together before, and Arnet had worked with Ervin three years earlier as a touring partner in Germany. The music here includes three Ervin originals, Barron's wonderful "Gichi," and Shaw's "In a Capricornian Way." The Afro-Latin-influenced grooves of "Gichi" display Ervin playing his solo in prime snake-charmer mode. His own "Den Tex" is classic hard bop with Barron and Ervin going head to head throughout. "Lynn's Tune" is a beautiful midtempo ballad with wonderful work by Arnet and a loping solo by Shaw. The closer is "204," a steaming hard bop tune with a killer head featuring the two horns just pushing the tempo before Ervin goes off the map into his solo. Barron's playing is totally inspired, pushing huge chords at both players as they dig into the changes and come out breathing fire. This is a wonderful addition not only to the Blue Note catalog on CD, but to Ervin's own shelf as well, and should be picked up by anyone interested in him as a bandleader and composer. ~ Thom Jurek
| | Don Cherry Where Is Brooklyn? CD (1966)
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Personnel: Don Cherry (pocket trumpet, cornet); Don Cherry (trumpet); Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell (cornet); Henry Grimes (double bass); Pharoah Sanders (piccolo, tenor saxophone); Ed Blackwell (drums).
Liner Note Author: Ornette Coleman.
Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (11/11/1966).
Where Is Brooklyn was Don Cherry's final album for Blue Note, and it returned to the quartet format of Complete Communion, this time featuring Pharoah Sanders on tenor sax along with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Ed Blackwell. Here, Cherry abandons his concept of recording all the album's compositions as side-long medleys; rather, each is treated separately, with spaces in between the tracks. There wasn't a need to integrate the compositions by periodically returning to their themes, so perhaps that's why Cherry doesn't really focus as much on bringing out his compositions this time around. Where Is Brooklyn is much more about energy and thoughtful group interaction than memorable themes, and so there's just a little something missing in comparison to Cherry's prior albums, even though they did also emphasize the qualities on display here. Nonetheless, it's still a fine record for what it does concentrate on; Sanders is in typically passionate form, and the rest of the ensemble members have already honed their interplay to a pretty sharp edge. It's worth hearing, even if it isn't as essential as Complete Communion or Symphony for Improvisers. ~ Steve Huey
This 1966 date finds avant-jazz titan Don Cherry further exploring the mercurial musical sensibility he'd developed to near perfection in Ornette Coleman's band and on his early solo releases like COMPLETE COMMUNION. WHERE IS BROOKLYN?, as with COMMUNION, is a quartet date, this time featuring saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, bassist Henry Grimes, and drummer Ed Blackwell.
The tracks are shorter than on other albums (excepting the album's closer, "Unite," which tops out at almost 18 minutes),
| | Jackie McLean Consequence CD (1965)
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Personnel: Jackie McLean (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Jackie McLean; Herbie Lewis (double bass); Lee Morgan (trumpet); Harold Mabern (piano); Billy Higgins (drums).
Liner Note Author: Larry Kart.
Recording information: New York, NY (12/03/1965); Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (12/03/1965).
On this 1965 session for Blue Note, alto saxophonist Jackie McLean leads a stellar ensemble that includes trumpeter Lee Morgan and drummer Billy Higgins. All of the musicians are in excellent form here, with McLean and Morgan offering up tightly woven melodic threads that carefully unfurl into outstanding solos. Higgins's commanding kit work, however, garners as much attention as the horns, with his frenetic playing providing both the music's heartbeat and its most thrillingly freewheeling moments (see the last half of the opener, "Bluesanova," for strong evidence of the latter). With the exception of "My Old Flame," all of the songs on CONSEQUENCE are McLean or Morgan originals, and the energetic performances of these inventive tunes make this a classic hard-bop date.
This 1965 session pairs Jackie McLean with Lee Morgan in the front line and features a rhythm section of pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Herbie Lewis, and drummer Billy Higgins. Right -- a powerhouse band. Originally recorded in 1965, it wasn't released on LP until 1979, and then on CD as part of the Mosaic box set (The Complete Blue Note 1964-1966). This is its first release as a separate title on CD. The music here is much more straight-ahead than on other McLean dates from the 1960s. The presence of Morgan puts McLean in the position of having to be at his best, as on the stellar opening cut, "Bluesanova," which combines bossa, soul-jazz, and hard bop. Another tight moment on the set is McLean's "Tolypso," a sideways take on calypso that reaches over into hard bop. The interplay between the saxophonist and trumpet player is air-tight and rousing. Other cuts of note are Morgan's fine s
| | Francois Lindemann Formats CD (2001)
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Personnel: Francois Lindemann (acoustic & electric pianos); Christophe Turchi, Werner Wuthruch (alto & tenor saxophones); Eric Truffaz (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jan Gordon-Lennox (trumpet, tuba); Jean-Jacques Pedretti, Pascal Schaer (trombone); Banz Oester, John Silvermann, Pierre-Francois Massy (bass); Olivier Clerc (drums).
Recorded at Studio Radio Suisse Romande, Lausanne, Switzerland on November 6 & 7, 1994 and September 21 & 22, 1997. Includes liner notes by Kurt S. Weil.
Personnel: François Lindemann (piano, electric piano); Erik Truffaz (trumpet, flugelhorn); Pascal Schaer, Jean-Jacques Pedretti (trombone).
Audio Mixer: Benoit Corboz.
Liner Note Author: Kurt Weil .
Recording information: Studio Radio Suisse Romande, Lausanne, Switzerland (11/06/1991-09/22/1997).
| | Lo Mejor De Angeles Del Infierno CD (1987)
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Engineers: Dave Holland, Brad Davis, Dennis Herman.
Personnel: Juan Gallardo (vocals); Robert Alvarez, Manu García (guitar); Iñaki Munita (drums).
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| | Bottine Souriante Mistrine CD (2006)
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Track Listing of songs: Reel Des Soucoupes Volantes; Ici-Bas Sur Terre; Martin De La Chasse-Galerie; Mistrine; Reel De La Main Blanche; Tourtiere; Reel Irlandais Ou Bees Wax Skin Sheep; Christophe; Complainte Du Folkloriste; Rap A Ti-Petang; Reel De La Sauvagine; Dans Nos Vieilles Maisons;
| | Greg Trooper Make It Through This World CD (2005)
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Live Recording
Personnel: Greg Trooper (vocals, acoustic guitar); Greg Trooper (guitar); Kevin McKendree (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer piano, Farfisa, Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ); David Jacques (double bass, upright bass, electric bass, bass guitar); Trixie (sound effects); Dan Penn, Pat McLaughlin (background vocals); Bill Kirchen (electric guitar); Steve Fishell (lap steel guitar, dobro); Kenneth Blevins (drums, percussion).
Author: Dan Penn.
Photographer: Jack Spencer.
Singer/songwriters are not known for their cheeriness, so it's kind of nice when Greg Trooper opens Make It Through This World with the gospel-tinged "Dream Away the Blues." Yes, the singer/narrator may be a bit down now, but he confidently asserts that one day he'll dream away the blues. He follows this with a mellow R&B number, "This I'd Do," a song that finds the singer promising to do whatever it takes to please his love interest, while a serene "Green Eyed Girl" playfully finds the singer wishing for the world only to admit he'd be satisfied if he had his girl sitting by his side. Trooper's relaxed vocals seem at home among the acoustic and electric guitars that make up the album's tasteful arrangements. On songs like the title track and "Don't Let It Go to Waste," he even melds his folkie heart to country music, delivering each piece with a quiet confidence. There's also an evocative ode to the great Galveston flood, "No Higher Ground," that carries a positive cadence despite its tragic subject matter. The overall mood of Make It Through This World is upbeat, and it works so well because Trooper's performance seems to in tune with the music and material. Singer/songwriters, it appears, can have good days just like everybody else. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.
| | Roy Buchanan Loading Zone CD (1977) (Import) Remastered; Germany
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LOADING ZONE is the 1977 reissue by blues guitarist Roy Buchanan that includes "Heat Of The Battle" and "Hidden."
Repertoire reissue of 1977 album from the Arkansas-born blues rocker. Packaged in a digipak. 2005.
| | Introducing Herbie Mann CD (2006) (Import) England; Remastered; Digipak; Argentina
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A seminal figure in the New York jazz scene of the '50s & '60s, Herbie Mann's quest for authenticity led him to many corners of the musical world, from Cuba to Brazil to the Middle East and Africa. His adventures in soul and R&B throughout the '60s and '70s also resulted in remarkable recordings, from his hit single 'Comin' Home Baby', to the albums Memphis Underground and Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty. Music.
| | Hilton, Pastor Charles & The ST Louis Consolators How Good God Is CD (2005)
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Pastor Charles Hilton and The St. Louis Consolators are a gospel singing family group out of St. Louis Missouri. The St. Louis Consolators were formed in January 2000. The Group consist of it's founder Pastor Charles Hilton, 2 of His Sons, Rissan McAdams, and DeAndre Hilton, and Weslei Isaiah, Pastor Hilton's Nephew. The group travels extensively across the country singing at all types events.The St. Louis Consolators are members of the American Gospel Quartet Convention, and the Gospel Music Workshop.
| | Musicaenchiriadis Music For Nikola Tesla CD (2006) (Import) Import
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In the beginning, MUSICAENCHIRIADIS was a famous treatise on music, written in the Middle Ages. This is now the name of the new project by PierGiorgio AMBROSI, Italian keyboards player who is known for playing in MONTEFELTRO, a true gem of GENESIS-like Progressive rock. Our man changed completely his style of music with "Music For Nikola Tesla", an opus released in 2005 on the Dreaming label. As its name says, this album means to pay tribute to the countless inventions of the neglected Yugoslavian scientist in the field of electricity, among which prevails the Alternating current motor. Musically speaking, the CD unveils an as-cast industrial music, borrowing to Seventies-like electronic musics as well as those of today. To be discovered !
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