Jazz On The Beach 95
Jazz On The Beach 95
The Awakening, new releases & jazz radio from Deal
This week’s Jazz On The Beach playlist features another track from the Oakland, California based Black Jazz label that released 21 albums during its short but prolific existence from 1971-75. Kera’s Dance comes from The Awakening’s 1972 album Hear, Sense and Feel, and is an uplifting and joyous spiritual groove produced by label founder Gene Russell and featuring trumpeter Frank Gordon, pianist Ken Chaney, flautist Richard (Ari) Brown, trombonist Steve Galloway, bassist Reggie Willis and drummer Arlington Davis, Jr. This band of Chicagoans were a combination of jazz musicians involved with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and former R&B session players - Chaney and Gordon had been members of Young-Holt Unlimited (remember Soulful Strut?) The Awakening only made only one more album the following year before going their separate ways, but fifty years on the music sounds fresh and inspirational.
There are a plenty of new releases on the show this week, starting with saxophonist Joshua Redman’s Chicago Blues - a terrific mash up of Count Basie’s Goin’ To Chicago with Sufjan Stevens’ Chicago with a great vocal performance from Gabrielle Cavassa. It’s the opening single from Redman’s new album Where Are We coming from Blue Note in September. There are exciting new tracks from saxophonist Nubya Garcia with Lean In on Concord Jazz and saxophonist/flautist Tenderlonious playing Charles Tolliver’s On The Nile from the upcoming You Know I Care on 22a Records.
Also, singer and producer Cautious Clay teams up with guitarist Julian Lage for Another Half from Karpeh due on Blue Note in August, singer Polly Gibbons sounds terrific on Disappointed from her As It Is album just released on Pastiche Records and percussionist Bex Burch (of Vula Viel fame) releases the exquisite Dawn Blessings from There Is Only Hope And Fear, coming in October on International Anthem.
And from the glorious analogue past….Willis Jackson’s Cool Grits from Please Mr Jackson (Prestige 1959), Hank Mobley’s A Caddy For Daddy (Blue Note 1965), Miles Davis Little One from ESP (Columbia 1965), Introduction to the Blues by Composer’s Workshop Ensemble with Warren Smith (Strata East 1969), Night in Medina by Randy Weston from Blue Moses (CTI 1972) and double bassist Eiji Nakayama’s Aya’s Samba (Johnny’s Disk Record 1978).
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Remember this?
This great promo video from 2009 for the Bellavista Social Pub in Sienna has surfaced again. It was directed by Bante, produced by Filmatindustriali and features Moussa Kaba in some fantastic recreations of classic Blue Note album covers celebrating the label’s 70th anniversary.
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