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Jayne Cortez – Maintain Control/Economic Love Song I (1986)

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First two tracks from the album Maintain Control by Jayne Cortez And The Firespitters.

Jayne Cortez (May 10, 1936 – December 28, 2012) was an American poet, and performance artist. Cortez was born May 10, 1936 in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and grew up in California. She was the author of ten books of poems and performed her poetry with music on nine recordings. Cortez presented her work and ideas at universities, museums, and festivals in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, the Caribbean and the United States. [source]

Al MacDowel – Bass
Bern Nix – Guitar
Denardo Coleman – Percussion
Charles Moffett Jr. – Tenor Saxophone
Jayne Cortez – Voice

 

jaynecortez-1024x1024    [in remembrance of Jayne Cortez]

Ornette Coleman – Him and Her (1979)

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Him and Her is track number three on the album Of Human Feelings by Ornette Coleman, released 1979 on Antilles.
Side one: 1) Sleep Talk, 2) Jump Street, 3) Him and Her, 4) Air Ship
Side two: 1) What Is The Name Of That Song ?, 2) Job Mob, 3) Love Words, 4) Times Square

When one thinks of Ornette Coleman´s innovative Prime Time Band, it is of crowded ensembles played by the altoist/leader, two guitars, two electric bassists, and two drummers. Actually, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, who plays enough for two musicians, is the only bassist on this date, but guitarists Charlie Ellerbee and Bern Nix, along with drummers Denardo Coleman and Calvin Weston, keep the ensembles quite exciting. None of the eight Coleman originals (which includes a tune titled “What Is the Name of That Song?”) would catch on, but in this context they serve as a fine platform for Coleman´s distinctive horn and often witty and free (but oddly melodic) style. [source]

Ornette Coleman – Saxophone
Jamaaladeen Tacuma – Bass
Calvin Weston – Drums
Denardo Coleman – Drums
Bern Nix – Guitar
Charlie Ellerbee – Guitar

Ornette Coleman – Macho Woman (1976)

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Macho Woman is from the album Body Meta by Ornette Coleman from 1976.

The establishing of Ornette Coleman’s self-determining Artists House label and his electric double-trio Prime Time coincided with the release of Body Meta, which changed many of the business and musical contours of jazz in the mid- to late ’70s. Coleman proved that jazz musicians could determine their own fate and market their music without a major-label contract. He also advanced the orientation of jazz away from swing rhythms and into a deeper blues driven by funk and angular electric guitars inspired by the precepts of Thelonious Monk [source]

A1: Voice Poetry (8:08)
A2: Home Grown (7:43)
B1: Macho Woman (7:40)
B2: Fou Amour (8:35)
B3: European Echoes (9:38)

Jamaaladeen Tacuma (Bass)
Ornette Coleman (Alto Saxophone)
Ronald Shannon Jackson (Drums)
Bern Nix (Guitar)
Charlie Ellerbee (Guitar)