BAIYINA Pat Martino Baiyina (The Clear Evidence) Prestige : 1968 PM, guitar; Bobby Rose, guitar; Gregory Herbert, alto sax, flute; Richard Davis, bass; Charlie Persip, drums; Reggie Ferguson, tabla; Balakrishna, tamboura. Regular and attentive readers of this fairly young venture will have noticed our propensity to cite, with notable frequency, a collection optimistically titled Jazz Satellites, Volume One . We hold this collection in high esteem largely because it carries that ineluctable mojo of the super-fine [...]
ROME AT TWILIGHT MY FAVORITE THINGS Sun Ra New Steps Horo : 1978 Ra, piano; John Gilmore, tenor sax; Michael Ray, trumpet; Luqman Ali, drums. Sun Ra may not have come from Saturn, but his discography feels like a cosmos unto itself. Although Evidence has done a terrific job reissuing many of his key recordings, there are still plenty of black holes out there. New Steps fills [...]
LIVING â€" DEDICATED TO JULIAN BECK MIRROR AND WATER GAZING FOR THE RABBIT Cecil Taylor For Olim Soul Note : 1986 CT, piano. For many people, Cecil Taylor’s solo recordings are the best introduction to the man. There’s so much going on with his piano playing that many find the other instruments superfluous. Our good friend Cherise figures that Cecil at the piano is already the equivalent of anybody else’s quartet, [...]
TAHT Cecil Taylor Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) Soul Note : 1985 CT, piano; Jimmy Lyons, alto sax; Frank Wright, tenor sax; John Tchicai, tenor sax; Tomasz Stanko, trumpet; Enrico Rava, trumpet; Karen Borca, bassoon; Gunter Hampel, bass clarinet, bari sax; William Parker, bass; Rashied Bakr, drums; Andre Martinez, drums. Welcome to the outer curve, the dividing line. Otherwise known as Cecil Taylor, avant garde musical expressionist par excellence. It’s not terribly surprising that most people jump [...]
STRAIGHT LINES ABSTRACT CALYPSO SKETCHES Joe Harriott Free Form Jazzland : 1961 JH, alto sax; Shake Keane, trumpet and flugelhorn; Pat Smythe, piano; Coleridge Goode, bass; Phil Seaman, drums. Common reactions upon first hearing Joe Harriott - from an unscientific poll of friends: 1) “Is this Ornette?†2) “This is from â€" when?†3) “British? Really?†4) “Given a blindfold [...]
KARIN'S MODE RABALDER Jan Garbarek Esoteric Circle Flying Dutchman : 1969 JG, tenor sax; Terje Rypdal, guitar; Arild Andersen, bass; Jon Chrisensen, drums. Chilly Jay Chill: Jan Garbarek made some wonderfully free music at the beginning of his career. Why are you laughing? Prof. Drew LeDrew: No, sorry. Of course. Yes. You were saying? CJC: Most people only know [...]
DOGON A.D. Julius Hemphill Dogon A.D. Mbari : 1972 Julius Hemphill, alto sax, flute; Baikida E.J. Carroll, trumpet; Abdul Wadud, cello; Philip Wilson, drums. Who’s afraid of a little funk? Or a little skronk? The late Julius Hemphill wasn’t the first one to come up with the idea of fusing Free Jazz with Rhythm & Blues â€" see also Joe McPhee circa Nation Time , Luther Thomas circa Funky Donkey , and the Art Ensemble of Chicago [...]
KASBAH KIDS AFRICAN VILLAGE/BEDFORD-STUY VESANT Randy Weston Blues to Africa Arista/Freedom : 1975 RW, piano. In the Venn diagram depicting Randy Weston's influences and stylistic affinities, there would be overlaps with Monk, Ellington, perhaps Abdullah Ibrahim, Morocco, Tangier, Nigeria. And a large part of it would remain Weston himself, unshadowed and unaccompanied. Blues to Africa lives up to its title, evoking Brooklyn playgrounds and Marrakech marketplaces with [...]
!!! A DESTINATION: OUT EXCLUSIVE !!! LONELY WOMAN NEW COMPOSITION #1 NEW COMPOSITION #2 Ornette Coleman Quartet +1 Live at Carnegie Hall June 16, 2006 CD-R : 2006 OC, saxophone, trumpet, violin; Tony Falanga, acoustic bass; Greg Cohen, acoustic bass; Al McDowell, electric bass; Denardo Coleman, drums. We are incredibly pleased to present the first recordings of Ornette Coleman's [...]
SEX SPY COMPUTE Ornette Coleman and Prime Time Opening the Caravan of Dreams Caravan of Dreams : 1985 OC, saxophone, trumpet, violin; Bern Nix, guitar; Charles Ellerbee, guitar; Jamaaladeen Tacuma, bass; Albert MacDowell, bass; Denardo Coleman, drums; Sabir Kamal, drums, perc. The first time I saw Ornette Coleman , he was fronting his harmolodic funk ensemble Prime Time, a group savvier jazz friends warned me [...]
PIECE ONE (Comp. 51) Â PIECE THREE (Comp. 58) Anthony Braxton Creative Orchestra Music 1976 Arista : 1976 AB, alto sax, clarinet; Seldon Powell, alto sax; Bruce Johnstone, bari sax; Ronald Bridgewater, tenor sax; Kenny Wheeler, trumpet; Cecil Bridgewater, trumpet; Jon Faddis, trumpet; George Lewis, trombone; Garrett List, trombone; Earl McIntyre, bass trombone; Jonathan Dorn, tuba; Muhal Richard Abrams, piano; Dave Holland, bass; Warren Smith, drums; Leo Smith, conductor. (For Piece Three , add: Roscoe Mitchell, bass sax; Leo [...]
 COMPULSION PREMONITION Andrew Hill Compulsion! Blue Note : 1965 AH, piano; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; John Gilmore, tenor sax, bass clarinet; Cecil McBee, bass; Richard Davis, bass (on "Premonition"); Joe Chambers, drums; Nadi Qamar, percussion; Renaud Simmons, conga. Andrew Hill is one of the great jazz pianists of the past forty years. Though not as celebrated as his Blue Note labelmates Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner [...]
SPIRITS REJOICE TRUTH IS MARCHING IN Albert Ayler Nuits de la Fondation Maeght 1970 Water/Runt  : 2005 AA, tenor; Call Cobbs, piano; Steve Tintweiss, bass; Alan Blairman, drums. Happy birthday, Albert Ayler, wherever you are. The tracks on this disk, culled from two concerts recorded in France in late July, 1970, represent Ayler's last recorded work before his death, about four months later. While the late Sixties saw Ayler moving toward something [...]
OPEN HOUSE BLACK ROCK James Blood Ulmer Black Rock Columbia : 1982 JBU, lead guitar, vocals; Ronnie Drayton, rhythm guitar; Amin Ali, bass; Calvin Weston, drums and backing vocals on “Black Rockâ€; Cornell Rochester, drums. Chilly Jay Chill : To paraphrase P-Funk, who says a jazz band can’t play rock? Prof. Drew Le Drew : They play it so well that I’m kind of [...]
MY FAVORITE THINGS GALAXY AROUND OLODUMARE Alice Coltrane with Strings World Galaxy Impulse : 1972 AC, piano, harp, organ, tamboura, percussion;Â Frank Lowe, saxophone; Leroy Jenkins, violin; Reggie Workman, bass; Ben Riley, drums; Elayne Jones, tympani; David Jackson, concert master. As a famous widow with bold artistic designs of her own, Alice Coltrane has often been derided as the Yoko Ono of jazz. But as time has passed and people have [...]
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, [...]
KING PORTER STOMP Air Air Lore Arista Bluebird : 1979 Henry Threadgill, tenor and alto sax; Fred Hopkins, bass; Steve McCall, drums, percussion. Chilly Jay Chill: Now here’s what the new traditionalism shoulda been. This stellar trio â€" the original owners of the Air moniker â€" casually reconfigures an old Jelly Roll Morton tune. “King Porter†starts old-timey with the sing-song melody and herky-jerk rhythms, but then the band starts turning the piece inside-out. And whatever the context, it’s always [...]
MONTEZUMA Wayne Shorter Moto Grosso Feio Blue Note: rec. 1970 WS, tenor and soprano sax; Chick Corea, marimba, drums, percussion; Ron Carter, cello, bass; John McLaughlin, 12-string guitar; Dave Holland, acoustic guitar, bass; Michelin Prell, drums, percussion. Chilly Jay Chill: The sheer weirdness of Wayne Shorter’s music is criminally underappreciated. Most people tend to slide off its sleek surfaces and neglect the strange harmonies, oblique phrasings, unexpected interplay of instruments. Even his most famous tunes are more about hints, [...]
BROWN RICE Don Cherry Brown Rice A&M : 1976 DC, trumpet, electric piano, voice; Charlie Haden, acoustic bass; Billy Higgins, drums; Frank Lowe, tenor sax; Ricky Cherry, electric piano; Bunchie Fox, electric bongos; Verna Gillis, voice. Chilly Jay Chill: I don’t normally think of Don Cherry when I think of jazz-rock fusion. World music fusion, sure. But this sounds like… Can. Prof. Drew LeDrew: Really good Can. Like what they [...]
      K.D.’s MOTION LOTUS BLOSSUM John Zorn/George Lewis/Bill Frisell News for Lulu hatArt: 1988 JZ, alto sax; GL, trombone; BF, guitar. CJC: News for Lulu was the first Zorn I bought, way back in like 1990, on a friend’s recommend. Great alluring cover photo [...]
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