Aquarium
September2010
Welcome to the September episode of Aquarium, the monthly Live Tropical Fish podcast on SoulandJazz.com.
Let’s start the show with a fantastic track: Let This Melody Ring On by Carlos Garnett from his 1975 LP with the same name. Really inspiring, the track consists of two different parts, the first with a funkier groove and the second a more afrobeat style… Mystical!
A great classic follows: Sathima Bea Benjamin, a South African singer and wife of Abdullah Ibrahim, with the original version of Africa, from her first 1976 album African Songbird.
Then we have Judy Bailey, one of the greatest jazz piano players of the ’70’s Australian scene, with the song Colours Of My Dream from the 1976 album Colours.
Taken from the first Gary Bartz album Another Earth (1969), we’ll listen to Perihelion And Aphelion, with Charles Tolliver (trumpet), Pharoah Sanders (tenor sax), Stanley Cowell (piano), Reggie Workman (bass), Freddie Waits (drums)… what a line-up!
But we have other gems for you: Dadisi Komolafe, an alto saxophonist from the LA scene of the early 80s, with the track Speak No Evil, taken from his 1983 album Hassan’s Walk, keyboard player Hampton Hawes with J.B.’s Mind from his 1972 album Universe with the great Leon (Ndugu) Chancler on drums, and from the 1974 Strata East album Earth Blossom by The John Betsch Society, the beautiful Ode To Ethiopia.
Do you know that Cannonball Adderley had a younger brother who played trumpet? Here is K. High from The Nat Adderley Septet album Don’t Look Back (1976)… soooo funky!
It’s time for a smooth track now: Like A Galaxy Of Stars from Byron Morris & Unity album Vibrations, Themes and Serenades (1978). But, to be honest, only the intro is smooth… soon after the track becomes very Jazzy and even Latin at the end.
We are ready for Odell Brown, an organist who worked a lot as a staff musician for Chess label, with the track South Of 63rd, from his 1974 album with his name: a little bit of Latin-Jazz for our listeners.
The great saxophonist Harold Vick follows, with his Lucille, from the 1974 Strata East album Don’t Look Back.
Jazz-Funk from Peru? You bet! Nil’s Jazz Ensemble is the flautist Nilo Espinosa’s combo, and we’ll listen to the track Reflexiones. Killer!
A real classic: Pharoah Sanders with Thembi, from the 1971 album with the same name, with Lonnie Liston Smith on keyboards and Cecil McBee on bass.
Herb Geller is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. He recorded in 1975 a beautiful album with Mark Murphy called Rhyme And Reason and from this album we’ll listen to the track Space A La Mode.
The last track of this show is Marion Brown’s Maimoun – a great closure, indeed! Taken from his 1975 Impulse album Vista. Spiritual Jazz at its best.
Enjoy the show and please send your feedback to info@livetropicalfish.it
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Aquarium
September 2010
Artist – Track – Album – Year
Carlos Garnett Let This Melody Ring On Let This Melody Ring On 1975
Sathima Bea Benjamin Africa African Songbird 1976
Judy Bailey Quartet Colours Of My Dream Colours 1976
Gary Bartz Perihelion And Aphelion Another Earth 1969
Dadisi Komolafe Speak No Evil Hassan’s Walk 1983
Hampton Hawes J.B.’s Mind Universe 1972
The John Betsch Society Ode To Ethiopia Earth Blossom 1974
Nat Adderley Septet K. High Don’t Look Back 1976
Byron Morris & Unity Like A Galaxy Of Stars Vibrations, Themes and Serenades 1978
Odell Brown South Of 63rd Odell Brown 1974
Harold Vick Lucille Don’t Look Back 1974
Nil’s Jazz Enesemble Reflexiones Nil’s Jazz Enesemble 1976
Pharoah Sanders Thembi Thembi 1971
Herb Geller Feat. Mark Murphy Space A La Mode Rhyme And Reason 1975
Marion Brown Maimoun Vista 1975
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