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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 […]

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.

  Another great album from Phineas Newborn Jr – the quickest hands that ever were…  actually, I’ve haven’t really done  a comparison on different pianists’ playing speed but :   “Jazz commentator Scott Yanow even referred to Newborn as ‘one of the most technically skilled and brilliant pianists in jazz.’[5] … Leonard Feather once said […]

I found this albums down the street in the $2.00 bins…  This find made my day.  I’m not sure if Major Holley was ever super well-known and can’t compare his bass-playing skills to other musicians.  He does have a signature style where he vocalizes like Popeye to his bowed bass solos that I like. major_holley-mule