Slow Goes The Goose: ECM. A gorgeous, spacey (the number of jazz albums with more of a sense of 'space' than this one must be vanishingly small) masterwork from the multi-talented Leo Smith, in the years just before he adopted the name 'Wadada'.
This was Smith's first album for ECM, and a well-deserved addition to their 'Touchstones' gallery last year; he'd return to the label sporadically after Divine Love, most recently just a couple of years ago. Sense of space, then... take the opening title track, for example. For nearly 22 minutes, it drifts in long, languid sighs and calls from Smith and from Dwight Andrews on alto flute. No drummer keeping time, just sporadic little clatters of percussion, occasional vibes/marimba from Bobby Naughton. Moments of nothing but pure reverberating silence. Kenny Wheeler and Lester Bowie join Smith for a three-way trumpet conversation on the shortest track Tastalun. Link pw: sgtg. Different Perspectives In My Room...! Música en espiral. Preserving grooves from around the globe. Inconstant sol. Jazz Blogwatch. 2020. Different Perspectives In My Room...! Cecil McBee. Bogard´s jazztapes.
Dr. Fusion. Arthur Jones. Just come back from Rome where i've spent some nicedays with "Ilario", drunk the bottle of "Brunello diMontalcino" and copied some great recordings from"Ilario"'s archive.I want to start with Rev.
Frank thinking this will makemany people happy. Rec. live at the 10th "Moers Festival", Moers, Germany,on June 6, 1981 (mics recording) Frank Wright,tenor saxophone,bass clarinet,vocalArthur Jones,alto saxophoneBobby Few,pianoJean Jacques Avenel,bassMuhammad Ali,drums. Elvin jones. "Mini Modes" (excerpt) A year along from "New Agenda", Elvin Jones and his group are in a jamming mode, working over looser structures with improvisational groupings amongst the reeds and percussion, with plenty of solo space as well.
"The Main Force" is a more african-focused event with early fusion touches, ripped freshly from vinyl and presented here today in WAV and MP3. Sometimes it sounds like they're all auditioning for Miles Davis' mid-70s live band, none so more than guitarist Ryo Kawasaki, who's coming off Gil Evans' "Music of Jimi Hendrix" and "There Comes a Time" albums, and here keeps his foot planted firmly on the wah-wah pedal, still a year away from smoothing things out considerably on his solo album "Juice".
Kawasaki's track "Salty Iron" opens the album. "Salty Iron" (excerpt) "Song of Rejoicing ... " Or, as Todd Barkan writes in his hysterical liner notes :"Here we are taken on a liferaft shooting the rapids of Elvin's bloodstream. 01. Vinyl rip and scans by Simon666. Maria João & Aki Takase: The Art of the Duo - live at NDR 1988. Aki Takase, pMaria João, vocrecorded live at NDR Studios, Hamburg 1988 1.
Estranha Forma Da Vida (Amalia Rodrigues; Alfredeo Merceneiro)2. My Favourite Things (Rodgers/ Hammerstein)3. Lush Life (Strayhorn) Vocalist Maria João from Portugal and pianist Aki Takase, born in Osaka/ Japan played together for several years. Jazz from Italy.