Jazz On The Beach 108
Jazz On The Beach 108
Let's listen to more jazz music!
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On this week’s show there’s the title track from Eddie Daniels’ second album This Is New (Columbia Japan, Takt Jazz Series, 1968). Although he would become a hugely popular clarinetist playing both jazz and classical music, Daniels plays tenor saxophone on the majority of tracks on this fine album, recorded for the Japanese market alongside some of their finest jazz musicians: trumpeter Terumasa Hino, pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, double bassist Kunimitsu Inaba and drummer Motohiko Hino. It’s never been reissued on vinyl (although there were CDs in 1997 and 2000), so if you find a clean copy out there please let me know.
There’s the extraordinary Psych City from the Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble’s Hard Luck Soul (Aragorn, 1971). This was a privately pressed album featuring the prison inmates band led by trumpeter Reynard Birtha with compositions and arrangements by alto saxophonist Logan Rollins (nephew of Sonny), and reissued on Jazzman’s Holy Grail Series in 2012. After Birtha and Rollins were released the band folded, so the four tracks on this album are all that exists, unless there’s an unmarked reel of tape still out there somewhere. As it says on the back cover, ‘Moods and Ideations in Contemporary Jazz’.
New music this week includes the hard boppin’ title track from Between Two Worlds by trumpeter Terell Stafford (Le Coq Records) with the powerful lineup of drummer Johnathan Blake, double bassist David Wong, pianist Bruce Barth, percussionist Alex Acuna and tenor saxophonist Tim Warfield. Speaking of powerful, the tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis/Red Lily Quartet put the jazz into Wade In The Water from For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms), with cornettist Kirk Knuffe, double bassist William Parker, drummer Chad Taylor and cellist Chris Hoffman.
Singer Jo Harrop has recorded a beautiful new version of I Think You’d Better Go, previously heard on her album The Heart Wants (Lateralise, 2020). This time it’s just Harrop with co-writer Jamie McCredie on guitar and a string quartet. Roy Hargrove’s The Love Suite: In Mahogany (Blue Engine Records) was performed only once in 1993 as a commission for Jazz at Lincoln Center when the greatly missed trumpeter was 23 years old. Thankfully it was recorded, and it’s wonderful, so here’s Young Dreams (Beauteous Vision) that also features alto saxophonist Jesse Davis, tenor saxophonist Ron Blake, trombonist Andre Hayward, pianist Marc Cary, double bassist Rodney Whittaker and drummer Greg Hutchinson.
Benet McLean is a fine pianist, but he’s also a terrific violinist as you’ll hear on the happening Mr Bap and the rest of his new album Green Park (Sea Mammal Records, November 24th). Also involved are tenor saxophonist Duncan Eagles, pianist Liam Dunachie, double bassist Rio Kai and drummer Zoe Pascal. There’s tenor saxophonist Jiro Inagaki and Soul Big Media’s version of the Eddie Harris classic Freedom Jazz Dance originally released on the album Jazz And Rock Out (Columbia Japan, 1970). The track is also featured on a new double vinyl compilation WaJazz Legends: Jiro Inagaki with tracks selected by Yusuke Ogawa of Universounds record store and released in collaboration with the label 180g and HMV Record Shop for Inagaki’s 90th birthday on October 3rd.
And finally, in memory of the marvellous Carla Bley, the glorious Lawns from Sextet (ECM, 1987). Bley plays Hammond organ alongside her husband, the bassist Steve Swallow and pianist Larry Willis, guitarist Hiram Bullock, drummer Victor Lewis and percussionist Don Alias.
Also…
Many thanks once again to Marc Myers and his essential daily JazzWax for hipping me to this Gabor Szabo documentary, made in 1977 by Larry Bock for his master's project at University of Southern California. Szabo is one of my guitar heroes and happens to be the guitarist on the Charles Lloyd Quartet track in this week’s show.
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