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Here’s Eri Yamamoto playing a very nice solo piano set.                 Here’s a drawing of a drummer (I think it was Nate Wood but the program and the extra insert said different things)                 Here are a couple of pictures from […]

The Second set on opening night of Vision Fest 17 this year was a really incredible one. I had never seen Paul Dunmall before and was mightily impressed. I’ve seen all of the members of the rhythm section befopre, although playing with different people. Their interplay was so spot on, though, I would have to […]

jimmy_smith-its_necessary Here’s a pretty good live recording from Jimmy Smith made at Jimmy Smith’s Supper Club in ’77.  With a some big names in the group, each song swings solidly, some reaching great status.  Most notably, the last song, “Say it Again, Jim,” is a really great track.  Here’s the linup. Stanley Behrens    –    […]

This album from Lafayette Gilchrist and Hammid Drake is and has been one of my favorite albums ever since I first found it on e-music (doesn’t seem to be there any more) – Lafayette Gilchrist and Hammid Drake – Live at the Vison Fest 2006.   Definitely the first two tracks – The Shadow Knows What […]

Here’s a good duet I stumbled across while browsing e-music: Dewey Redman and Ed Blackwell – Red and Black, live in Willisau.  It has some similarities to Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell’s albums, the three musicians all coming from the same school of music.  There would be no mistaking  them for each other, though.  One […]

On December 15th and 16th, 2011, Wadada Leo Smith came Roulette’s music space in Brooklyn to celebrate his 70th birthday…  He was here two nights, playing three sets each night, each set playing with a different configuration of musicians (trio, quartet, sextet, octet).   Each set was really great.  Below are some pictures from those nights. […]

LYoung-MotherShip The album, Mothership, is a great one from Larry Young.  With a great line up (Lee Morgan on trumpet, Herbert Morgan on Tenor sax, Eddie Gladden on drums, and, of course, Larry Young on organ) and recorded in 1969 during a time of some of the greatest jazz albums of all time, one shouldn’t […]

Here’s a real gem that I found at the WFMU record fair this year.  Not only does Mr Redman really tear it up but his rythm section (Jym Young: piano – Donald Raphael Garret:bass,clarinet – Eddie Moore:drums) really do a great job of holding it together even at Dewey’s free-est playing…  a stellar set.

As you will find out if I continue to post enough albums from my record collection, I have a soft spot in my heart for jazz covers of pop songs.  In this case, we have some solid grooves coming from a real master of the hammond b3 – Johnny “Hammond” Smith.  Not the best album […]

  When you think of jazz bagpipe, only one name comes to mind – Rufus Harley, the Philadelphia piper.  – Watch him here  -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HYMwRtJHV8&feature=related   RHarley-KingsQueens