Artist | Tune | AlbumBuckshot Lefonque | Music Evolution | Music Evolution

Esther Satterfield | Love is Stronger Far than We | Once I Loved

Astrud Gilberto et al | The Girl from Ipanema | Getz / Gilberto

Joe Sealy | All Blues | Clear Vision

Herbie Hancock | Maiden Voyage | Maiden Voyage

Ray Charles & Betty Carter | Cocktails for Two | Essential Classics

Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan | Pack’d My Bags | Rufusized

Norman Connors | Dreams | Slewfoot

Art Ensemble of Chicago | Toro | The Paris Sessions

Sonny Greenwich | Ethiopia | Hymn to the Earth

Abdullah Ibrahim & Gato Barbieri | Hamba Khale! | Confluence

Stanley Clarke | Life Suite – Part II | Stanley Clarke

George Duke | Hot Fire | Reach For It

Kenny Garrett | The House that Nat Built | Songbook

Miles Davis | So What | Kind Of Blue

Ramsey Lewis | Opus #5 | Another Voyage

Billy Cobham | Dippin’ the Biscuits in the Soup | The Traveller

Donald Harrison & Terence Blanchard | Tacit Approval | Nascence            

Anthony Braxton | Joy Spring | Seven Standards, 1985, Vol. 1

Artist - Tune - Album

Horace Silver - The Kicker - Song for My Father

Pat Martino - Mardi Gras - Joyous Lake

Billie Holiday - God Bless the Child - Giants of Jazz – Billie Holiday

Blood, Sweat & Tears - God Bless the Child - Blood, Sweat & Tears

The Crusaders - Street Life - Street Life

Charlie Haden’s Quartet West - The Long Goodbye - Haunted Heart

Dionne Warwick - Check Out Time - Very Dionne

Ramsey Lewis - Since I Fell for You - Back to the Roots

Jay Hoggard - Samba Pa Negra - Days Like These

George Benson - White Rabbit - White Rabbit

Harry Connick, Jr. - It Had to be You - When Harry Met Sally

Anita Baker - Fairy Tales - Compositions

Chaka Khan - Take the “A” Train - Echoes of an Era

Duke Ellington - Diminuendo & Crescendo in Blue - Ellington at Newport

Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side - Transformer

Mandrill - Mango Meat - Just Outside of Town

Fela Kuti & Africa ‘70 - Zombie - Zombie

The Playlists of all Jazz Gumbo Sets can be viewed at jazzgumbo.blogspot.com

Artist - Tune - Album

Abercrombie, Holland & DeJohnette - Back Woods Song - Gateway

Cinematic Orchestra - Burnout - Every Day

Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood - I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Jean-Luc Ponty - Imaginary Voyage, pts 1&2 - Imaginary Voyage

George Benson - Thinker - That's Right

Branford Marsalis - LonJellis - Random Abstract

Dexter Gordon, featuring Johnny Griffin - Blues Up and Down - Great Encounters

Jaco Pastorius - Liberty City - Word of Mouth

Dianne Reeves - Love for Sale - I Remember

Flora Purim - Ina's Song, Transition, Conversation - Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly

Tony Williams - The Slump - Civilization

Air - Do Tell - 80° Below '82

Music Revelation Ensemble - Time Table - No Wave

Buckshot Lefonque - Music Evolution - Music Evolution

A complete chronology of Jazz Gumbo Sets can be found at jazzgumbo.blogspot.com

Artist - Tune - Album

Sly & the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime - Greatest Hits

Jack DeJohnette - Bayou Fever - New Directions

Steps Ahead - Safari - Modern Times

Esperanza Spalding - Radio Song - Radio Music Society

Booker T. & the M.G.s - Melting Pot - Melting Pot

Christian Scott - Lay In Vein - Rewind That

Freddie Hubbard - The Black Angel - The Black Angel

Luis Gasca - Street Dude - For Those Who Chant

Herbie Hancock & Tina Turner - Edith & the Kingpin - River – The Joni Letters

Stevie Wonder - Too High - Innervisions

Ori Dagan - Sweet Georgia Brown - Less than Three

Herbie Hancock - Cameleon - Head Hunters

Brian Blade - Red River Revel - Fellowship

War - Get Down - All Day Music

Banks, Cosey, Henderson, et al - Ife (fast) - Miles from India

The Image is from Luis Gasca's "For Those Who Chant"

For a catalogue of all JG Sets go to jazzgumbo.blogspot.com

This is one of my original Sets from 2012, which means it's 80% all-time favorites.

Great atmosphere-evoking music that transports me to luscious summers of younger days. And here summer just ended!

That's the kind of year it's been. And I'm thinking that Jazz Gumbo is coming to an end. Time to shift up to the flow of change that's always tugging us into the unknown.

If nowhere else, I'll stay online for now at obsidianblooms.blogspot.com , but perhaps I'll pop up somewhere to share this music that I'm still loving and that's still loving me.

Thrive!

Kirby

22 September 2020 - Equinox

Artist - Tune - Album

Buckshot Lefonque - Music Evolution - Music Evolution

Jaco Pastorius - Kuru/Speak Like a Child - Jaco Pastorius

Wynton Marsalis - Skain’s Domain - J Mood

Betty Carter - 30 Years - Droppin’ Things

Sonny Greenwich - Time-Space - Evol-ution, Love’s Reverse

Kevin Eubanks - Moments Aren’t Moments - Face to Face

Dee Dee Bridgewater - All Blues - Live in Paris

Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton & Buddy Rich - More Than You Know -

- Tatum * Hampton * Rich

Bennie Maupin - It Remains to be Seen - Slow Traffic to the Right

Public Enemy - Brothers Gonna Work it Out - Fear of a Black Planet

Baird Hersey - The Charioteer - The Year of the Ear

Herbie Hancock - Heartbeat - Man-Child

Jack DeJohnette - PM’s AM - Audio-Visualscapes

Joanne Brackeen - Friday the Thirteenth - Special Identity

Dianne Reeves - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise - I Remember

Donald Byrd - Harlem Blues - Harlem Blues

Artist - Tune - Album

Abdullah Ibrahim - The Mountain - The Mountain

Taj Mahal - Sweet Home Chicago - Recycling the Blues

Dewey Redman - Boody - The Ear of the Behearer

Roberta Flack - Tryin’ Times - First Take

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Miles Beyond - Birds of Fire

Joni Mitchell - Chair in the Sky - Mingus

Kenny Garrett - 2 Down & 1 Across - Songbook

Wayne Shorter - Beauty & the Beast - Native Dancer

Diana Krall - 42nd Street - Stepping Out

Michael Gregory Jackson - Unspoken Magic - Gifts

Weather Report - Elegant People - Black Market

Us3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) - Hand on the Torch

Stanley Clarke - Concerto for Jazz/Rock Orchestra - Journey to Love

Michael White - Land of Spirit and Light - Land of Spirit and Light

Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Compared to What - Swiss Movement

Ramsey Lewis - Upendo ni Pamoja - Upendo ni Pamoja

An archive of past Sets is available at: jazzgumbo.blogspot.com

One of the very first JG Sets, from almost 8 years ago. A lot of my favorites are here.

It's a good time for re-posting, as COVID 19 has shut down our studio along with so much else.

Be well out there and enjoy!

Thrive!

Kirby Obsidian

Artist - Tune - Album

Sonny Fortune - Waves of Dreams - Waves of Dreams

Al Jarreau - Distracted - This Time

Eric Dolphy - Bee Vamp - At the Five Spot

James Blood Ulmer - Moon Shines - Tales of Captain Black

Dinah Washington - It Isn’t Fair - A Slick Chick (on the Mellow Side)

David Sancious - Sound of Love - True Stories

Billy Cobham - La Guernica - Depth of Thought

Michal Urbaniak - Bahamian Harvest - Fusion

Osibisa - Spirits Up Above - Wɔyaya

Stéphane Grappelli - Lover Man - Satin Doll

Herbie Hancock - Speak Like A Child - Speak Like A Child

Art Tatum - Without A Song - Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 11

Chuck Mangione - Floating - The Chuck Magione Quartet

Horace Silver - The Kicker - Song For My Father

Billy Cobham - Arroyo - Inner Conflicts

An archive of Set Lists and Album Covers is available at: jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca

Kirby Obsidian

Artist - Tune- Album

Branford Marsalis - Love Stone - Renaissance

Woody Shaw - Seventh Avenue - Stepping Stones

Kevin Eubanks, duet with Ron Carter - Nardis - The Heat of Heat

Wayne Shorter - Daredevil - Joy Ryder

Clifford Brown - Brownie Eyes - Brownie Eyes

Courtney Pine - Inner State (of Mind) - Back in the Day

Oregon - Taos - Oregon

Billy Cobham - El Barrio - Inner Conflicts

Flora Purim & Airto - 20 Years Blue - Humble People

Esperanza Spalding - The Peacocks - Junjo

Jack DeJohnette - Brown Warm & Wintery - Audio Visualscapes

Mike Stern - Mood Swings - Upside Downside

Diane Schuur - Take Me to the River - Schuur Thing

Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis - Tickle Toe - The Toughest Tenors

Nancy Wilson - How Glad I Am - How Glad I Am

An archive of Set Lists and Album Covers is available at: jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca

Thrive!

Kirby Obsidian

Artist - Tune - Album

Ramsey Lewis - Les Fleur - Maiden Voyage

Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus - Pithecanthropus Erectus

Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! - Stand!

Tania Maria - Sangria - The Real Tania Maria: Wild!

John Coltrane - Afro-Blue - The Best of John Coltrane

Flower Travellin’ Band - Satori – Part II - Satori

Cleo Laine - Hi-Heel Sneakers - I Am A Song

Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before - Where Have ... You Before

Return to Forever - Song to the Pharoah Kings - Where Have I Known You Before

Cassandra Wilson - I Thought You Knew - Point of View

Courtney Pine - The 37th Chamber - Modern Day Jazz Stories

Tom Waits - Way Down In The Hole - Big Time

Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Delilah - Jordu

Ramsey Lewis - Party Time - Up Pops Ramsey Lewis

An archive of all previous Sets is available at: jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca

How about Tania Maria? I’m surprised that she isn’t more celebrated. I saw her live, once: Seattle, ’86, a festival in a park, one hot, summer day. I’d never heard of her and she just took the stage and the crowd and romped and rollicked for an hour! Amazing stuff. Yet, I’ve only just got my second album by her, as I comb the second hand stores and yard sales. And I never hear her name on Jazz radio.

I’m always discovering new evidence that the world is just that way: you miss almost everything from a distance; highlights and headlines alone don’t tell you very much. About anything. You just have to get in close.

There are brilliant people everywhere, brimming over with creativity, and they offer new ways of feeling alive, and of seeing the colors and shapes of the world, and they sparkle us with insights that shake us in our shoes when we are stumbled into them.

Let us celebrate sound! With Tania and Clifford and Cleo and Sly.

And how about that Return to Forever!?

Let the music begin…

Kirby Obsidian

Artist - Tune - Album

Pharoah Sanders - After The Rain - Journey To The One

Michael Gregory Jackson - We’re Connected Now - Heart & Centre

Steps Ahead - Safari - Modern Times

Big Mama Thornton - Rolling Stone - Sassy Mama!

Horace Silver - Mo’ Joe - The Cape Verdean Blues

Dionne Warwick - Message To Michael - Golden Hits – Part II

GZA - Liquid Swords - Liquid Swords

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Sparkle - Renaissance Man

Janis Joplin - Cry Baby - Pearl

Miles Davis - Duran - Directions

Bob James - Night On Bald Mountain - One

Tony Williams - Geo Rose - Civilization

Helcio Milito - Māe Preta (Black Mama) - Kilombo

A complete chronology of Jazz Gumbo is available at jazzgumbo.blogspot.com

Well, it’s been a long while since I recorded and posted a show. Lets say that I’ve had a few distractions these past months. Anyway, it’s good to be back. There will be another break of a couple of months from early March until Mid-May, after which I’ll be back at it again.

The next few sets will be entirely from original vinyl, most of that pre-1992. I won’t say anything more but will let the music speak for itself.

Thanks for listening!

THRIVE!

Kirby Obsidian