The three first tracks Roads Cross, Klepto and Spirit Fiction from the album Spirit Fiction by Ravi Coltrane, is recorded in 2012.
Despite the metaphysical suggestion in Spirit Fiction´s title, this is Ravi Coltranes most cerebral, process-oriented recording to date. This does not mean, however, that his debut offering for Blue Note Records is dry or academic. There is an abundance of emotion and sensual detail, most of it expressed gently, with the confidence — and authority — of a veteran bandleader. [source]
Ravi Coltrane – Tenor & Soprano Saxophone
Luis Perdomo – Piano
Drew Gress – Bass
E.J. Strickland – Drums
Ralph Alessi – Trumpet
Geri Allen – Piano
James Genus – Bass
Eric Harland – Drums
Don Rendell Ian Carr from 1968 accompanied by Michael Garrick – Piano; Dave Green – Bass; Trevor Tomkins – Drums.
An essential piece of British jazz – end of story. [source]
Dave Green – Bass
Trevor Tomkins - Drums
Michael Garrick - Piano
Don Rendell - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute
Ian Carr - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Petite Fleur is recorded at the Olympia Concert Paris, December 8, 1954.
Bechet relocated to France in 1950 after performing as a soloist at the Paris Jazz Fair. His performance at the fair resulted in a surge in his popularity in France. After that, Bechet had little problem finding well-paid work in France. In 1951, Bechet married Elisabeth Ziegler in Antibes, France.
In 1953, he signed a recording contract with French Vogue, which lasted for the rest of his life. He recorded many hit tunes, including “Les Oignons”, “Promenade aux Champ Elysees,” and the international hit “Petite Fleur”. He also composed a classical ballet score in the late Romantic style of Tchaikovsky, called La Nuit est sorcière (The Night Is a Witch). Existentialists in France called him “le dieu”. [source]
Sidney Bechet – Soprano Saxophone / Roland Bianchini – Bass / Marcel Blanche – Drums / Pierre Dervaux – Trumpet / Claude Luter – Clarinet / Claude Philippe – Banjo / Benny Vasseur – Trombone / Gilles Thibault – Trompet / Yannick Singery – Piano
Hot C is first track on the album Wahoo! by finnish Eero Koivistoinen Music Society, recorded at Finnvox-Studios December 1st to 29th 1972.
For some time Wahoo! has been a jealously guarded secret of DJs and collectors. Jon Newey, in his Jazzwise review, states that only 600 copies of the original LP were pressed, and further claims that those originals can often be found for as much as $500. The UK-based reissue label Whatmusic has thankfully brought it to the masses, available with its original artwork on LP or CD-digipak. Recorded in 1972 with a one-off group, Wahoo! more than measures up to its reputation by delivering an incendiary brew of 70s fusion. It is everything that fusion should have been: raw, electric chaos held together by in-the-pocket beats and a muscular low-end. The music does not fall prey to any of the pitfalls that sank so much of the 70s’ over-intellectualized pseudo-funk (i.e. wimpy synthesizers, tricky time signatures played with technical rigor mortis and extended noodling). Moreover, the production catches all the rough edges and the mixing layers the meaty rhythms created by the set-up of two drummers, two bassists and two guitarists. [source]
Personnel: Eero Koivistoinen – Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Sopraninio Saxophone / Olli Ahvenlahti – Fender Rhodes / Matti Kurkinen – Electric Guitars /Ilja Saastamoinen – Electric Guitars / Ilkka Willman – Bass / Heikki Virtanen – Bass /Reino Laine – Drums, Percussion / Esko Rosnell – Drums, Percussion / Sabu Martinez – Drums, Percussion / Edward Vesala – Drums, Percussion / Kaj Backlund – Trumpet / Juhani Aalto – Trombone / Juhani Aaltonen – Reeds / Unto Haapa – Reeds / Unto Haapa -Aho – Reeds
From the album Digswell Duets by Saxophonist Lol Coxhill, recorded 11.05.78, released on Random Radar Records in 1979.
Saxophonist Coxhill is an extremely versatile player who has played in settings ranging from punk rock to abstract free improvisation. His sense of melody and time are particularly distinctive, drawing more heavily from the jazz tradition than many of his fellow British free improvisers. This recording marks an unusual pairing of duet partners: Simon Emmerson, an electronic artist whose palette largely consists of Coxhill’s playing thrown back at him in real-time; and Veryan Weston. [source]
Simon Emmerson – Electronics (The Digswell Tapes System)
Lol Coxhill – Soprano Saxophone
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