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You should just post these in the Bill Cosby RIP thread

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Tomorrow's song has been decided. Ivan, I want you paying close attention tomorrow morning.

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I have an.....appointment tomorrow morning. Should be in and out, though....

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Jazz music works well with that.

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Will you be posting free jazz in this thread?

Yes. Stylistically, I'll be trying to incorporate different stuff.

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Bobbi Humphrey - "Mestizo Eyes" 1975



This song was notably sampled by DJ Quik on AMG's "Vertical Interlude" in 1992.

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I like it...

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Bobby Hutcherson - "Un Muy Bonita" - Stick-Up! (1968)

ZephMarshack asked if there'd be free jazz in here. I thought of posting something from The Shape of Jazz to Come, then I decided that might be kinda lame, and I remembered that Hutch covered a track from Ornette's second album and did it better. In my opinion, at least -- I have a huge bias toward anything with vibraphone. I will voraciously consume anything with Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson. I can't control myself OH NO

Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch! (1964)

whole damn album oh man everyone should listen to this. First time I heard this album, I actually shouted out loud "WHY DIDN'T I GET IT SOONER?" I wish I had had some of these licks in the arsenal when I was in high school jazz band. What would I have done with them and when? I don't even know. I wish I could have found out.

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That Hutcherson song grooves so hard!

I haven't listened to Dolphy yet.

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I like everything Dolphy did, but honestly, there's Out to Lunch! and then there's everything else. Again, it's not that the rest is bad, it's just that that one is that good. Far Cry and Iron Man come close at times: I always liked "Mandrake" and "Ode to Charlie Parker."

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I love Bobby Hutcherson! I generally prefer his albums where he plays with a smaller ensemble, as I find they let him show off his vibes playing a bit more. Here's one of my favorites from an album where he plays with a four-piece that includes Herbie Hancock:
Bobby Hutcherson- Theme from "Blow Up"


Since we're on the subject of vibes, I may as well post a Gregg Bendian song as well. This one is from my favorite album (sadly the only song from it on youtube) and features the Clines on guitar and drums.
Gregg Bendian's Interzone- Primoridal Ink

Two Third Stream beasts here:

Joe Bonner - "Impressions of Copenhagen" - Impressions of Copenhagen (1981)

Even though they're strictly auxiliary percussion, the tubular bells are among my favorite instruments. I just love the timbre. When I was in gifted school, we played xylophones in music class the way other grade school kids played plastic recorders. Of course, I eventually went into public school and got to play those lovely things as well, but the point is that I developed a lifelong love for melodic percussion: vibes, glockenspiel, marimba, even the gamelan. When it was Choose Your Band Instrument Day in 4th grade, I wanted to play the vibes, but I was sad to find that that wasn't an option, and I would have to start on snare drum. Hitting a snare drum appealed to an eight-year-old Curious Hair about as much as a gaping head wound, so I took up the trumpet instead for the next ten years. Anyway, this has my beloved chimes around the edges, but mostly it's carried by Joe Bonner's terrific piano work and string arrangements. One of the youtube comments said it has a Mancini feel, and maybe it does a little, but I think this is a little too sophisticated to be Mancini, who always tended toward mass-appeal schmaltz, in my opinion.

Don Ellis - "Strawberry Soup" - Tears of Joy (1971)

I think the only other person who is familiar with drum and bugle corps here is Scorehead, and I doubt he's strolling by this thread, but this has become a standard of that particular medium. I don't know how; there's nothing standard about it. Weird time signatures, enormous instrumentation, and screaming trumpet solos from Don Ellis, who died far too young -- well before he pushed the trumpet and jazz as far as he could have. This one requires a time commitment, but I think it's worth it. I always wanted us to play this in jazz ensemble, but we were never going to round up as many bodies as it would have taken. Oh to have played that trumpet at solo at 8:30. God knows I practiced it.

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Both of those songs made love to my eardrums, Curious. I love the transitions in Strawberry Soup. Went from classical to funk to fusion to blues. And I love the tubular bells and the sweet melody on the Bonner song. Very good stuff.

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Grant Green - "Idle Moments" - Idle Moments (1964)



More vibraphone love, this time riding shotgun with the guitar greatness of Grant Green. Enjoy after dinner with a nice cup of tea or coffee.

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i've never heard that one, only Green Street and First Session
i guess i'm just not a fan of jazz guitar, never really got Kenny Burrell either
i'll make an exception for George Benson

This is the goods.

How about something by John Germaine sometime this week?

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Sorry for letting this die! I traveled without my external hard drive this week and couldn't easily refer to my library.

Dorothy Ashby - "Little Sunflower" - Afro-Harping (1968)


Dorothy Ashby, the other jazz harpist after Alice Coltrane. I discovered her in late 2007, when The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby turned up on a rarities blog I liked. Might still be around...orgyinrhythm I want to say? Anyway, I loved it, and quickly tracked down more of her work. This is a terrific interpretation of "Little Sunflower." Flute, vibes, and harp in this one. I love novel instrumentation, if you can't tell by now.

The Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Theme de Yoyo" - Les stances a Sophie (1970)

The AEC and AACM weren't perfect. Sometimes their experimentation just seems like dadaist tedium, and doesn't click with me. Like, yeah, okay, a bike horn and a slide whistle, I get it, you're out there. But when they got it right, man, they got it right. I suspect that the wacky percussion and stuff works as long as there's a good groove going, which there certainly is here. It's like with Ornette Coleman and how there still needs to be some foundation or framework, some sort of boundary to walk right up against and eventually cross.

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Charles Mingus- Hog Callin' Blues

Charles Mingus is one of my absolute favorites and Oh Yeah might be my favorite album from him. It's not as seminal or hip as Ah Um or The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady but it's absolutely his most soulful record. Mingus doesn't play bass on this one but instead plays piano and shouts, sings, and scats across the album. He's joined by a horn section that includes the equally awesome Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

Masada- Ne'eman

John Zorn annoys me in many ways and he and his label often have serious quality control problems, but his work with the original line-up of the quartet Masada does not suffer from any of them, especially on their early live recordings. Live in Sevilla is probably their best concert recording, and this track which kicks it off demonstrates the simultaneous influences of klezmer and Ornette Coleman that can be found throughout all of their work.

I'm trying to find his Hot & Heavy Live recording. No luck yet...

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Compost - "Buzzard Feathers" - Life Is Round (1973)


Chicago's own Jack DeJohnette and some of his friends just jamming for your listening pleasure.

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