Classy jazz from an expert trumpet player.
The recent reissue of Eddie Henderson's 1976 jazz funk album Heritage has seen it get a lot more appreiciation than it received first time around. There's more love these days for electronics and killer grooves. Even so, no-one seems to be picking up on the spectral beauty of one of this album's quieter, more restrained cuts. Nostalgia , with its hypnotic bass riff, long slurred trumpet tones and delicate percussion is a thing of otherworldly beauty. Eddie Henderson - Nostalgia (alternate download)

All Reasonable Doubt samples in one zip: here . All posts rolled into one: here . Dan Love runs this fiefdom: here . 'Ain't No Nigga' The Whole Darn Family – 'Seven Minutes Of Funk' From Has Arrived (Soul International, 1976) Unavailable. Four Tops – 'Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got)' From Keeper Of The Castle [...]

So I managed to catch flu, and without turning this into a medical or self pity blog, I have managed to spend my time in the UK on my back wishing death upon myself rather than record digging and carousing as I had intended. If you got on Virgin Atlantic flight 004 from JFK to Heathrow knowing you had the flu virus and would give it to everyone in the cabin please know that all I wanted for Christmas was the opportunity to cut your head off and play in your blood. [...]

It was 1970, and jazz was poised for another stylistic revision. The previous decade had upended the art form, introducing chaos and theatre, African rhythms and popular cadences, rigor and its rejection. By the end of the sixties, a jazz musician was just as likely to have university tenure as a nightclub residency. Jazz had been freed from the obligation to be danceable or popular. It was improvised art music, music to move your sentiments, not your ass. Herbie Hancock and Donald Byrd would eventually reverse the process. Their records [...]

SCORPIO-LIBRA ANUA Eddie Henderson Realization Capricorn : 1973 EH, trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn; Herbie Hancock, electric piano; Bennie Maupin, alto flute, stritch, tenor sax, bass clarinet; Billy Hart, drums, percussion; Buster Williams, bass; Dr. Patrick Gleeson, ARP and moog synths and organ; Lenny White III, drums. -Classic Kozmigroov . -Features Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band in toto. The undersung pre-Headhunters outfit. Should be considered part of that catalog. -Reminiscent of Miles [...]

The Mighty Dogcatchers: It's Gonna Be A Mess Pt 1 From: Florida Funk [Now Again, 2007] The Shades Of Black: Mystery Of Black Pt 1 From: Quantic Presents: The World's Rarest Funk 45s [Jazzman, 2006] Carlos Garnett: Mystery Of Ages From: Cosmos Nucleus [Muse, 1976] Eddie Henderson: The Kumquat Kids From: [...]

We're not much for top ten lists here. And with our focus on excavating overlooked gems of the past, not many folks will be turning to Dest:OUT for a capsule take on the year's current crop of releases. But we thought it might be interesting to review what readers opted to download most often from this site, a sort of democratic, listener-generated top ten. Keeping in mind that we've only been online since the early summer and that readership has grown over that time, we devised a complicated [...]
MARS IN LIBRA Eddie Henderson Realization Capricorn : 1973 EH, trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn; Herbie Hancock, electric piano; Bennie Maupin, alto flute, stritch, tenor sax, bass clarinet; Billy Hart, drums, percussion; Buster Williams, bass; Dr. Patrick Gleeson, ARP and moog synths and organ; Lenny White III, drums. RIMA Headhunters Survival of the Fittest Arista : 1975 Bennie Maupin, bass clarinet; DeWayne McKnight, [...]