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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Live At Montreux (1975) [10-12]

Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Live At Montreux (1975) [9-12]

Charles Mingus - Sue's Changes - Live At Montreux (1975) [7-12]

Charles Mingus - Sue's Changes - Live At Montreux (1975) [6-12]

Charles Mingus - Devil's Blues - Live At Montreux (1975) [2-12]

Don Pullen, George Adams Quartet - Song From The Old Country

J.Henderson,J.Griffin & G.Adams / Blues Up And Down (1988)

Freddie Hubbard - Joe Henderson - Cantaloupe Island - 1985

Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk

Jimmy Smith Trio +1 / Organ Grinder's Swing (1988)

Blue Note At 75, The Concert: Lou Donaldson & Dr. Lonnie Smith

"Street Life" - Randy Crawford (2006) oe Sample Trio and Randy Crawford in one of the first (and best!) live registrations of their 1979 worldwide.hit Streetlife.

The Crusaders Live at Montreux 2003 - Way Back Home

Joe Sample, Iconic Jazz Pianist & Composer, Is Dead at 75 | The Jazz Line - News

Joe Sample, the critically acclaimed pianist and composer that spent more than five decades creating awe-inspiring music that transcended genres and inspired countless musicians, died on Friday, September 12 in his hometown of Houston, TX. He was 75.
Read more: http://thejazzline.com/news/2014/09/joe-sample-dead-jazz-pianist/#ixzz3DFecKjRB 
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Joe Sample, Iconic Jazz Pianist & Composer, Is Dead at 75 | The Jazz Line - News

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Horace Silver - Peace

Horace Silver - From The Heart Through The Mind

THE HORACE SILVER QUINTET, The Cape Verdean Blues

THE HORACE SILVER QUINTET, The Cape Verdean Blues

Nica's Dream / Horace Silver Quintet.

Nica's Dream / Horace Silver Quintet.

Horace Silver Senor Blues (Vocal version)

Horace Silver plays -'Señor Blues' en 1959.flv

Horace Silver 5tet - Tokyo Blues [1964]

Horace Silver 5tet - Tokyo Blues [1964]

Horace Silver 5tet - Tokyo Blues [1964]

Horace Silver 5tet - Tokyo Blues [1964]

Horace Silver 5tet - Song For My Father [1968]

Jazz Pianist, Composer Horace Silver Dies At 85 : The Two-Way : NPR

One of the truly greats of modern jazz is gone. His compositions and recordings will last forever.



Jazz Pianist, Composer Horace Silver Dies At 85 : The Two-Way : NPR

Saturday, April 05, 2014

Jazz Articles: 1966 Coltrane Concert to Have 1st Official Release - By Jeff Tamarkin — Jazz Articles

John Coltrane’s Nov. 11, 1966 concert at Philadelphia’s Temple University will be released officially for the first time on Sept. 23—Trane’s 88th birthday—by Impulse!/Resonance Records. The recently discovered tapes, here titled Offering: Live At Temple University, will be available in both two-CD and two-LP configurations. The band accompanying Coltrane on the date included his wife Alice Coltrane on piano plus Pharoah Sanders (reeds and flute), Rashied Ali (drums) and Sonny Johnson (bass).



Jazz Articles: 1966 Coltrane Concert to Have 1st Official Release - By Jeff Tamarkin — Jazz Articles

Saturday, January 25, 2014

David Murray - Cousin Mary

David Murray live at Village Vanguard. This is Morning Song.

David Murray Octet Morning Song 1987 I spent six nights a week with this band. Amiri Baraka and his wife Amini as well as anybody else who was in the arts community in New York. Managing David was a magical period in my life for which I will be eternally thankful.

David Murray Quartet - Murray's Steps - This was a band I managed during the early eighties. I loved David Murray's work. This song is mistitled.

Lester Bowie New York Organ's Ensemble - live

Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Funky AEC/ Odwalla 1981. I used to love this melody. This was their closing act in the eartly eightie

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Berlin Jazzfest - 1991 - Ohnedaruth

"Saving all my love" - Lester Bowie & Brazz Brothers (live)

Lester Bowie - Rios Negros

Monday, January 13, 2014

Amiri Baraka's Legacy Both Controversial And Achingly Beautiful : NPR





Amiri Baraka's Legacy Both Controversial And Achingly Beautiful : NPR

Amiri Baraka was a complex brilliant but somewhat bitter man.  Was he an anti-semite.  Yes, many of his poems clearly demonstrate this.  Did he believe he was one?  No, I know this from personal conversations with him.  His talent was matched by his bitterness over oppression.  We shared a love for jazz.   My politics were far too conservative for him.  I rejected communism in high school after reading Richard Wright's the Outsider.  Black Cultural Nationalism, which he exposed when I first encountered his writings had some attractions but clearly was nihilistic at it's core.  It was a pseudo religious cult birthed out of a justified anger but limited by it's tribalism.  Barack never lost his love for Alan Ginsburg, the great beat poet.

Baraka's love for Ginsburg, who was born Jewish and adopted Buddhism proves the truism that an anti-semite, a racist, a homophobe or any other bigot can still have friends and care about people from the group they despise.  In this sense despite his obvious talent Amiri Baraka's life is a cautionary lesson in human frailty.

John H. Armwood