Bobby Hutcherson : Happenings

Bobby Hutcherson
Happenings

Rare 24bit Japanese cd release from a few years back @320.

Bobby Hutcherson
Herbie Hancock
Bob Cranshaw
Joe Chambers

Possibly the finest album of all time.

Hutcherson perfection.

Ndikho Xaba and the Natives (returns)

Ndikho Xaba : Ndikho Xaba and the Natives

1969 by Trilyte # LR-7001

Privately Pressed holy grail Afro Spiritual Jazz on the Trilyte label out of Oakland, California. Incredible music in the same vein as Tribe and Strata-East. Thought to be the first ever appearance of Plunky Branch ; Plunky & Oneness Of Juju on a vinyl record. Extremely limited private pressing which is both beautiful & moving Spiritual Free Jazz. It features long groove based tribal jams with "Freedom" being an amazing bluesy soul stomp. The album features some really moving and inspired playing, and even some vocalizing (chanting, singing) J. Plunky Branch is an acclaimed Avant Afro-Funk Jazz saxophonist from Richmond. Bassist Ken Shabala (Kent Parker) came from Brooklyn. They met in college & formed a group called the Soul Syndicate with Kent Parker the lead singer. From 1966-68 they played the New York circuit until moving to San Francisco where in 1969 they met Lon Moshe (Ron Martin) creating this African-Avant-Garde group with Ndikho Xaba. They recorded this one lone lp, led by South African pianist/percussionist, Ndikho Xaba until soon forming Plunky & Oneness Of Juju releasing their first album in 1972 and relocating to New York.

1 Shwabada

2 Freedom

3 Flight

4 Nomusa

5 Makhosi

Bobby Hutcherson : Live at EJ's

Bobby Hutcherson : Live at EJ's.


Recorded live in Atlanta, Georgia, 8th-10th August 1980.


Bobby Hutcherson : Vibraphone
William Henderson : Piano
Heshima Williams : Bass
Eddie Moore : Bass


More pure class, from Bobby Hutcherson on this tricky to find cd. 


Part 1
Dolphin's Dance, Hancock
In your own sweet way, Brubeck
Highway One, Hutcherson


Part 2
All of you, Porter
Salt Peanuts, Gillespie/Clarke
Body and Soul, Green/Heyman/Sour/Eyton
Little B's Poem, Hutcherson
With a song in my Heart, Rodgers/Hart

Ju Ju Man

David Durrah : Sea of Nurnen

David Durrah.

Reflections in the sea of Nurnen 1975.

Idibib Productions.

This monster track is lifted from the Japanese cd compilation from 1997. Picked it up for peanuts a couple of weeks ago and haven't stopped playing it since. Top, top tune.

Karin Krog

A real favourite of mine, check Steve Swallow's bass outro on Meaning of Love, killer.

Thom Jureks's thoughts:

Recorded for Polydor, six years after her landmark Joy album, this set features Norwegian jazz iconoclast Karin Krog in the electric company of keyboardist Steve Kuhn, drummer percussionist Jon Christensen, and Steve Swallow on one of his early electric bass dates. More song-oriented than her other vanguard dates, We Could Be Flying still showcases the singer in a restless, searching frame of creativity. Obviously influenced by the work Flora Purim had done with Return to Forever and the heyday of jazz-rock fusion, Krog nonetheless puts her indelible stylistic stamp on all the material here. The best tunes here were written by Kuhn, who seems to understand the subtlest nuances in Krog's performing style, as evidenced by "Meaning of Love," with its driven, wispy Latin rhythms and melodic lines that seem to bleed into one another, capturing the softness of Krog's enunciation. The seemingly rocked-up cover of Joni Mitchell's "All I Want" feels out of place here, the band feels stilted into trying to rein themselves into the conventional cut-time signature and fixed spaces where fills are almost unwelcome. While Mitchell's own version is far looser and spacier than this, the band seems to have misunderstood her original intent in this song. The co-write between Carla Bley and Krog on "Sing Me Softly of the Blues," finds the band back on its square, swinging the blues in cool nocturnal fashion with Christensen's swinging cymbal work carries the band underneath the singer's husky contralto. The finest moment here is the funky "Raindrops, Raindrops" written by Kuhn, where his electric piano and double-time bass and drums fall in just behind Krog's shimmering, airy performance. This recording is a fine document of its time, capturing its naivete, sense of adventure, and its willingness to step outside the jazz and vanguard box while never giving in to pop convention.

Recommended.

Jazz-Strands

Here's a killer U-Tube recommendation from that man G.Raf. McCoy Tyner and Azar Lawrence is in there with some heavy percussion recorded live in Warsaw in 1974.

Aces

Don Rendell and Ian Carr LIVE (video)

Another incredible contribution.

Don Rendell, Ian Carr, Michael Garrick, David Green and Trevor Tomkins playing in France in 1968. 2 separate files, Hot Rod and Parvane. Very rare footage of the cream of British jazz.

Please leave some thanks, there's more in the pipeline.

Underwolves

The Underwolves : Under your Sky

Jazzanova Compost from 2001

A choice couple of tracks. Lay Down and Bird Song. Heavy sampling of Andrew Hill's Illusion and The Heath Brother's Smiling Billies Suite. The original artwork was dreadful ...

Try it