how bad are Horace Silver's early 70s "United States of Mind" albums
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 September 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
turbans count as spiritual jazz hats, right?
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facerecords.com%2Fshop%2Fimages%2F4%2F4394003_1.jpg&f=1
― Οὖτις, Monday, 25 September 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
I didn't know where else to put this, but Billy Harper should be much more well known than he is. His mid-70s albums: Soran-Bushi B.H., In Europe, and of course Black Saint are lights out. He is a tremendous player and extemporaneous thinker. just phenomenal stuff...
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 13 April 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
all his 70s stuff is great. and he's on a ton of great albums. i wish all those live recordings with the max roach quartet were easier for people to hear. mostly came out on japanese vinyl pressings in the 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSpRH1mMYP0
― scott seward, Friday, 13 April 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
thanks, I've never heard of them, let alone listened to them. Harper is just a special musician, I can't really put my finger on it.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 13 April 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
i love the album on horo too. tons of stuff to dig into with billy harper!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MFsdt0ruLg
― scott seward, Friday, 13 April 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
he was doing cool stuff with lee morgan too before lee's sad end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4kb40-V_g
― scott seward, Friday, 13 April 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
Yes! I love The Last Session, especially Angela and Capra Black. Lee had put together a great band at that time.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 13 April 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
billy harper "capra black" just got reissued ...
― the late great, Friday, 13 April 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
guess I was looking at the turban rather than the words because I read the title of that Horace Silver album as THAT HAT FEELIN'
― niels, Saturday, 14 April 2018 09:04 (six years ago) link
Am I correct in thinking that this is the main influence on the current Jazz explosion?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
Which explosion is this again? If you mean Kamasi, then I'd say yeah totally.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
Yeah, Kamasi and the West Coast stuff but also the stuff that's coming out of London rn.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
Yup
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
was just listening to this japanese spiritual jazz comp — really amazing stuff in there: https://spiritualjazz.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-jazz-8-japan-pt-1
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I've been eyeing that, and the other volumes of that series!
That Japanese Jazz comp on BBE has some amazing jams, many of them of the spiritual and/or modal jazz variety.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
What stuff that's coming out of London, Daniel?
― Kanye O'er Frae France? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
the Astrosonics/Black Classical Music linked upthread is probably the greatest comp ever (close call between that and New Wave Hits of the 80s imo)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
Sons of Khmet etc.
xp
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:28 (six years ago) link
er Kemet
Yeah, all the acts from the <i>We Out Here</i> comp, ppl who play at Total Refreshment Centre, etc.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
JUst got a cd called A Loud Minority Deep Spiritual Jazz from the Mainstream label. It looks really good but I got a faulty copy. Not seen a cd do this before it has stripes across teh silver. Looks like its new but somewhere the process has gone wrong.I heard a bit of the 2 Frank Foster tracks on it but can't play the disc.Anybody familiar with it? Is it worth tracking down another copy of?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
Nyc group Elder Ones fucks with this vibe imo
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
I've seen notices that Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids are coming to Zebulon in L.A. and it's tempting. I always wonder how musicians who were active in the 70s will be today though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfWeqzjt444
― nickn, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
dancing is kinda ridiculous in that clip but the music is great
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
for new london jazz check the comp “we out here”
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
oh daniel beat me to it
yeah what he said
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
look forward to hearing the Japanese compilation, was jammin to this one yesterday https://open.spotify.com/album/564B7NIpdF0je3rlh33cXC
― niels, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 06:47 (six years ago) link
That Loud Minority compilation looks pretty good:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Loud-Minority-Deep-Spiritual-Jazz-From-Mainstream-Records-1970-1973/release/8205413
I have the three Buddy Terry albums on Mainstream; Awareness from 1971 is kinda Pharoah Sanders-ish spiritual jazz with a great band (Cecil Bridgewater on trumpet, Stanley Cowell on piano, Roland Prince on guitar, Victor Gaskin and Buster Williams on bass, Mickey Roker on drums, and Mtume on percussion), but another one, Lean On Him, is more like psychedelic gospel jazz. That one has Eddie Henderson on trumpet and Bernard Purdie on drums.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
listened to the first two Pyramids albums last night. Pretty awesome.
I'm going to have to go through that archived tracklist carefully. This might be an ecstatic summer for me.
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
Got a replacement copy of teh loud Minority cd and it does sound pretty good. Apparently there were a whole batch with the bad pressing, haven't come across it happening before so maybe if yo9u get one like that you get several.
But compilation is pretty groovy now i can actually listen to it.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 17 May 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
was there a thread for spiritual hats? this one is great:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bent_J%C3%A6dig_Photo.jpg/1005px-Bent_J%C3%A6dig_Photo.jpg
― niels, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 12:35 (five years ago) link
Enjoying this mix by Martyn of '70s Latin/spiritual jazz/fusion/African percussion etc that I randomly stumbled on via NTS: https://www.nts.live/shows/martyn/episodes/martyn-31st-december-2018
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Really liked the track by Open Sky - "Come To Supper Tonight, Rada". Thanks for the tip Jordan.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
really feeling this today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFQ1H40of48michael white - the land of spirit and light
― budo jeru, Friday, 27 December 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAnoz4CN70w
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 27 December 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
the drummer / composer on that one, david lee, has a great record from the same years, called "evolution"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlJju4_3REI
similar vibe, i think it's george davis playing guitar on both
― budo jeru, Friday, 27 December 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I have that David Lee LP and it's wonderful. Nothing on it is quite as terrifying as 'In his Presence Searching' IMO but you made me want to listen to it again.
― Deflatormouse, Friday, 27 December 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
The beginning sounds like a Danny Brown sample waiting to happen (samples all over the place tbh)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 27 December 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
recommended:
https://img.discogs.com/Nkcmz1xDDRrpojg3tHDSwYBWJVo=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13626617-1557791896-6621.jpeg.jpgJuju - Live At The East 1973 LP
https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/now-again/products/juju-live-at-the-east-1973-lp
― budo jeru, Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:39 (four years ago) link
unrelated but this gets stuck in my head multiple times a week, just amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cObNLQGxrMJoe Zawinul - A Soul of a Village, Pt. II
― budo jeru, Sunday, 2 February 2020 04:41 (four years ago) link
Black Unity Trio - Update #1Thank you for signing up for the waiting list / email list for our vinyl reissue of Black Unity Trio - Al Fatihah. We are really excited to be working with the musicians to make this an extremely special release.We wanted to send this quick note to let you know the official street date is Friday, November 27, 2020. We will send you an update as soon as the pre-order is live.Also, tomorrow (June 12, 2020), we will be streaming LIVE on Instagram playback of the 1968 master tapes during the safety session! Join us at @gottagrooverecs on Instagram at approx 1pm Eastern!(Note: since it is the safety session, the playback will likely be periodically interrupted, and may not necessarily be the entire album -- but we thought it would still be a fun way to show you some behind-the-scenes work in the reissue of the album).Thanks again for your interest in this album, and drop us a line any time!-- Gotta Groove Records
We wanted to send this quick note to let you know the official street date is Friday, November 27, 2020. We will send you an update as soon as the pre-order is live.
Also, tomorrow (June 12, 2020), we will be streaming LIVE on Instagram playback of the 1968 master tapes during the safety session! Join us at @gottagrooverecs on Instagram at approx 1pm Eastern!
(Note: since it is the safety session, the playback will likely be periodically interrupted, and may not necessarily be the entire album -- but we thought it would still be a fun way to show you some behind-the-scenes work in the reissue of the album).
Thanks again for your interest in this album, and drop us a line any time!
-- Gotta Groove Records
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 June 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Been eyeing that xpost George Lewis AACM history for a while: pricey, but well worth it, according to reviews I've seen.
One of the first jazz records I bought, still steaming and streaming:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj5hQHO5ANs
― dow, Thursday, 11 June 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
wiki sez:All compositions by Pharaoh Sanders except as indicated
"Healing Song" (Joe Bonner, Pharoah Sanders) - 21:43 "Memories Of J. W. Coltrane" - 12:51 "Lumkili" - 8:33
Personnel
Pharoah Sanders - tenor saxophone Marvin Peterson - trumpet Carlos Garnett - flute, voice Harold Vick - tenor saxophone, voice Joe Bonner - piano, harmonium Stanley Clarke, Cecil McBee - bass Norman Connors, Billy Hart - drums Lawrence Killian - congas, bailophon
― dow, Thursday, 11 June 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
def lots of two bass hits of sunshine
― dow, Thursday, 11 June 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link
this was recommended to by by youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iij6Wr8uP-wronnie boykins s/t
released on ESP-disk in 1975, so it must have been one of the very last releases. marzette watts is credited as engineer, which i find interesting, but i can't see any evidence that he plays. have been familiar with RB for his work with sun ra, never knew about but have really fallen in love with this solo record. it's very MOODY
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
looks like it's coming at last ...
https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/gotta-groove/products/black-unity-trio-al-fatihah-lp
― budo jeru, Thursday, 22 October 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
Not sure if this belongs here but I picked up a reissue of Fitz Gore & The Talismen's Soundmagnificat (out of the blue, the cover looked nice) and wow, this is beautiful! Groovy & melancholy, totally mesmerizing.
― willem, Monday, 15 March 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link