Jazz Gumbo

Artist - Tune - Album
Oliver Jones - Olea - Lights of Burgundy
Ella Fitzgerald - How High The Moon - The Best of Ella Fitzgerald
Robert Cray - Nothin’ Like A Woman - Strong Persuader
Ira Sullivan - Portrait of Sal Larosa - Ira Sullivan
The Four Tops - Still Water (Love) - Still Waters Run Deep
Charles Mingus - Black Bats and Poles - Changes Two
Steps Ahead - Trains - Magnetic
Earl Hines & Paul Gonsalves - Moten Swing - It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got that Swing!
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - In A Mellow Tone - L,H&R Sing Ellington
Freddie Hubbard - Theme For Kareem - Super Blue
Sun Ra - Fate In A Pleasant Mood - Fate In A Pleasant Mood
Sun Ra - Ankhnaton - Fate In A Pleasant Mood
The Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze - 3 + 3
The Isley Brothers - The Highways Of My Life - 3 + 3
Pharoah Sanders - Moment’s Notice - Rejoice
Swan's Silvertone Singers - Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Greatest Hits
Herbie Hancock - Hidden Shadows - Sextant

The Intro number was Pat Martino’s “Pyramidal Vision” from the Line Games album.

Playlists and featured album covers for all previous Sets of Jazz Gumbo can be found at:
https://jazzgumbo.blogspot.com/

Thrive!
Kirby Obsidian

Artist - Tune - Album
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay - Red Clay
Hugh Masekela - In the Market Place - I Am Not Afraid
Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good - Feels So Good
Angie Stone & Calvin Richardson - More Than A Woman - Mahogany Soul
Pat Martino - Pyramidal Vision - Joyous Lake
Jazz Passengers - Strange Love - Deranges & Decomposed
Jazz Passengers - In No Languages - Deranged & Decomposed
dj Cheb i Sabbah - Kese Kese (Sarangi Mix) - MahaMaya – Shri Durga Remix
Tony Williams - Eris - The Joy of Flying
Santana - Guajira - Santana III
Chick Corea & Return to Forever - 500 Miles High - Light as a Feather
Stevie Wonder - Flower Power - The Secret Life of Plants
Vital Information - Sixth Sense - Ray of Hope
Horace Silver - Song for My Father - Song for My Father
Jack DeJohnette - John McKee - Parallel Realities
Anita Baker - Caught Up in the Rapture - Rapture
Chaka Khan - Them There Eyes - Echoes of an Era
Buddy Miles - Joe Tex - A Message to the People

This Set is introduced by Buckshot LeFonque's "Music Evolution".
Playlists from all previous Sets of Jazz Gumbo are at:
jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca


Here's a Replay of an old Set that I've enjoyed myself recently, along with the original notes:

The “Masterworks” of Set 18 begin with Return to Forever’s “500 Miles High”. Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Joe Farrell, Flora Purim and the Great percussionist Airto Moreira (whom I forgot to credit during the broadcast) deliver a piece that, 30+ years after first hearing it, continues to pull me completely into it’s richly textured soundscape. They flesh it out with solos that are technically brilliant and emotively lush.

Also in this category of tunes, that create their own unique sonic pocket and then fill it up, are Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father” and DeJohnette’s “John McKee”, which features Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock. I‘ll slide in Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay” right behind these other three; can’t deny what a compelling piece it is.

I love presenting lesser known works by artists with a long list of hits – works that would be much better known if not for those hits. In this set, I point to Stevie Wonder’s “Flower Power”, to Santana’s “Guajira” and to Masekela’s “In the Market Place”, all favorites of mine.

Artists I’m presenting on Jazz Gumbo for the first time include dj Cheb i Sabbah, who does a wonderful amalgam of traditional Indian music with Club music and Electronica. There’s also the Jazz Passengers, who combine the zany and the funky with straight ahead, driving numbers, reminiscent of Frank Zappa or George Duke. Then There’s Angie Stone, whose duet with Calvin Richardson is a sweet, soul throwback. And finally, Buddy Miles delivers a big, brassy and rollicking tribute to 60’s soul singer “Joe Tex”, to close things out.

Thrive!
Kirby Obsidian

Artist - Tune - Album
Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage - Maiden Voyage
Donald Byrd - Flight Time - Black Byrd
Pat Martino - Pyramidal Vision - Joyous Lake
Nancy Wilson - In The Dark - Nancy–Naturally!
Wynton Marsalis - You Don’t Know What Love Is - Standard Time Vol.2 Intimacy Calling
Carlos Santana - Shere Khan, The Tiger - The Swing Of Delight
George Duke - Ómi (Fresh Water) - Reach For It
George Duke - Searchin’ My Mind - Reach For It
Duke Ellington - Cotton Tail - Giants Of Jazz
Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair - There’s A Riot Goin’ On
Dexter Gordon - Devilette - The Monmartre Collection Vol. 1
Billy Bang - New York After Dark - Rainbow Gladiator
Stan Getz - Morning Star - Stan Getz Gold
Gato Barbieri - Ruby - Ruby, Ruby
Al Di Meola - Short Tales Of The Black Forest - Land Of The Midnight Sun
Tom Waits - Strange Weather - Big Time

Playlists and featured album covers for all previous Sets of Jazz Gumbo can be found at:
https://jazzgumbo.blogspot.com/


You know how a piece of music can just grab you? You’ve heard it before, even really dug it before, but suddenly you’re hearing it for the first time. It pierces something deeper, gets down into your gut at a whole different level. It’s expressing some of YOU, so you want to listen to it over and over again, like to an affirmation, underscoring and emphasizing everything you’re feeling, hungering for, dreaming about, even the stuff you wrestle and struggle with all your life. A piece of music that, were someone to make a film of your life, would have to be the soundtrack, blaring out who you are and who you want to be all at once.
You know that feeling?

That’s what I felt when I listened to Dexter Gordon blowing out “Devilette”. And I felt it again when I edited the set, finally, two months later. Ain’t this exactly what jazz is supposed to sound like? Ain’t it what life is supposed to taste and smell like – with your mom your dad and all you came from rolled up inside it? Your kin and your neighborhood, all those streets you walked, the courts you played and danced on, places you went to work and sat over sweaty lunches with your buddies made from doing that work, women you loved, and women who loved you and those you wanted to love but never got to, the roads you travelled and those you only dreamt about, all that and a slice of hot cornbread.

That’s what this sounds like to me, here today, and that day I played it for the set, and the day I edited it for all of you.
And listening to it now, as I write this, I wonder about who Dexter was. He’d up and pulled up stakes, and settled in Europe for a good, long while – a place a black american could feel he was human, and have his music and his self appreciated and loved. I wonder if he played this to remember home, or to bring a chunk of home to Paris, or just to marry up a piece of the world with a piece of heaven.
Whatever he was aiming to do, he made a piece of real music right here. A piece of perfection that feeds the soul. I hope it feeds yours like it does mine.

Thrive!
Kirby Obsidian

Artist - Tune - Album
Kevin Eubanks - Ever-Blue - Sundance
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Where Is The Love - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
Wynton Marsalis - When You Wish Upon A Star - Hot House Flowers
Wayne Shorter - Who Goes There! - Atlantis
Les McCann & Eddie Harris - Compared To What - Swiss Movement
Stanley Turrentine - Sister Sanctified - Cherry
Taj Mahal - Corinna - The Natch’l Blues
War - Where Was You At - The World Is A Ghetto
Thelonious Monk - Light Blue - Thelonious In Action
Joni Mitchell - Woodstock - Miles Of Aisles
Billy Cobham - Spanish Moss - Crosswinds
Julian Priester - Eternal Worlds - Love, Love
Michael Gregory Jackson - We’re Connected Now - Heart & Center
Jimmy Smith - Oh, No, Babe - Organ Grinder Swing
Jeff Beck - Come Dancing - Wired
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - Boogie-Woogie String Along For Real
Sonny Rollins - The Stopper - Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet
Wayne Shorter - Crianças - Atlantis
Ramsey Lewis - Upendo Ni Pamoja - Upendo Ni Pamoja
Chet Baker - Blue Room - The Touch Of Your Lips

Playlists and featured album covers for all previous Sets of Jazz Gumbo can be found at:
https://jazzgumbo.blogspot.com/


My Sets from this calendar year are almost pure vinyl. And, almost purely musical, since I've cut back so much on my speaking. I didn't intend it. It was caused by a problem with my laptop that prevents me from plugging it into the studio's mixing board to access my digital files.

I must say that I'm enjoying it a lot. And I may just stick to it. But how are you liking it? I welcome your thoughts.

Enjoy the Set!
Kirby

Artist - Tune - Album
Kamasi Washington - Leroy and Lanisha - The Epic
Woody Shaw - Stepping Stone - Stepping Stones
Oliver Jones - Close Your Eyes - Lights of Burgundy
Art Tatum - Isn’t This A Lovely Day - The Tatum Solo Masterpieces, vol.4
Mike Nock, Bennie Maupin, Cecil McBee & Eddie Marshall - Symbiosis - Almanac
Return To Forever - So Long Mickey Mouse - Musicmagic
featuring vocals by Stanley Clarke & Gayle Moran
Barre Phillips - Mountainscape IV - Mountainscapes
Miles Davis - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down - Bitches Brew
King Pleasure - Don’t Get Scared - Moody’s Mood For Love
Joanne Brackeen - Ancient Dynasties - Ancient Dynasty
Stevie Wonder - Too High - Innervisions
Amina Claudine Myers - Do You Wanna Be Saved? - The Circle Of Time
Horace Silver - Togetherness - Silver ‘n Voices
Tower of Power - Squib Cakes - Back to Oakland
Michal Urbaniak - Joy - Serenade for the City
Al Jarreau - Roof Garden - Breakin’ Away

The intro tune for this set is Wes Montgomery's "Bock to Bock"

Playlists and featured album covers for all previous Sets of Jazz Gumbo can be found at:
https://jazzgumbo.blogspot.com/


Wow! This is the first time in forever that I’m managing to post a Set in the same month that it was recorded! A little ridiculous, considering that once, I routinely posted Sets within days of recording them.

A more interesting and relevant fact is that this Set, and the ones that precede and follow it, are virtually all vinyl. Many of my first Sets were vinyl dominant, all the music from the early nineties or earlier. Since then, I’ve aimed to incorporate more music from the late nineties and the current century. Partly, to show the continuity in jazz, and its growth as a genre-crossing philosophy of music, rather than simply a genre itself.

It’s purely accidental that I’ve gone back to my previous show format. My laptop isn’t connecting to the mixing board. I can’t even play Buckshot LeFonque’s “Music Evolution”, the show's theme all these years. I’ve never managed to find a vinyl copy. I could mix it in, but I prefer to post the same show that streams from Radio Regent, with just a little clean-up.

I’m enjoying the vinyl only format. I have such a wealth of great vinyl, and the 50’s-80’s was such an amazing time for musical boundaries both stretching out and falling away, that I don't feel that the diversity of the Sets has suffered.

I hope the less talking is comfortable with you listeners. I haven’t received much input on the point. No complaints about not being able to figure out what’s been played. So I may just stick to it for awhile. I’m so glad to be back at this, as a regular part of my week.

I hope you enjoy the Set! Thank you for your ears!

Thrive!
Kirby

Artist - Tune - Album
(pre-intro) Wes Montgomery - Bock to Bock - Fingerpickin’
Art Blakey - The Sacrifice - Drum Suite
Quincy Jones - Soul Serenade - Golden Boy
James Blood Ulmer - Big Tree - No Wave
Steve Khan - Some Punk Funk - Tightrope
Helcio Milito - Aza Branca - Kilombo
Bob Moses - Exodus - The Story of Moses
John Blake - Maiden Dance - Maiden Dance
Keith Jarrett - In Front - Facing You
Gil Scott-Heron - The Prisoner - Pieces of a Man
Weather Report - The Pursuit of the Woman with the Feathered Hat - Mr. Gone
Cannonball Adderley - Hamba Nami - Accent on Africa
Judy Garland - Little Girl Blue - Alone
Courtney Pine - I’ve Known Rivers - Modern Day Jazz Stories
Chet Baker - El Morro - You Can’t Go Home Again
Mal Waldron - You’re My Thrill - Blues For Lady Day
Deanna Storey - I’m Just A Little Person - Synecdoche, New York soundtrack

Playlists and featured album cover for all previous Sets of Jazz Gumbo can be found at:
https://jazzgumbo.blogspot.com/



Well…it’s been awhile.
This is the first new Set recorded in some time. I thank all of you for your patience these last months. I doubt that I’ll ever manage an absolute adherence to a one-set-per-week schedule, but I hope for be fairly regular for the foreseeable future.

You should perhaps know that this Set and the next are basically all original vinyl. I’m unable to link my laptop to the studio computer for the purpose of streaming audio, so can’t access my digital library for the show. When I’ve solved the problem, I’ll be incorporating more current material in the mix, as usual.

Thank you for your ears!

Thrive!
Kirby

Artist - Tune - Album
Flora Purim - Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly - Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly
Milton Nascimento - One Coin–Tostao - Milton
Benny Goodman - Jumpin’ At The Woodside - The Hits of Benny Goodman
Sonny Rollins - There’s No Business Like Show Business - Worktime
Tony Williams - Juicy Fruit - Native Heart
Autorickshaw - Mercy Street - Meter
Jowee Omicil - One Note For Miles - Let’s Bash
Joshua Redman & The Bad Plus - County Seat - The Bad Plus Joshua Redman
John Coltrane - Cousin Mary - Giant Steps
Kenny Barron & Dave Holland - In Walked Bud - The Art of Conversation
Chaka Khan - I Love You Porgy - Echoes Of An Era
Baird Hersey - Night In Tunisia - The Year Of The Ear
Peter Erskine - Little Fun - Dr. Um
Marcus Miller - Jean Pierre - Marcus
Charles Mingus - Slop - Better Git It In Your Soul

The ode to musical styles past and present that introduces Jazz Gumbo is “Music Evolution” by Branford Marsalis and Buckshot LeFonque.

Playlists for all past Sets of Jazz Gumbo will be found at jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca

Finally! The last Set from 2018. For some reason I don't clearly remember, I decided to experiment with a music only format. No chatter from me. That is, no chatter after my very long-winded intro.
Seriously though. It would be great getting input from some of you out there. Would you like less talk about the music and artists? Do you appreciate the occasional thoughts I share about artists, albums and tunes? Or would you prefer even more of the history of the featured music? Let me know what your tastes and interests are.

Thrive!
Kirby

Artist - Tune - Album
McCoy Tyner - Uptown - Uptown/Downtown
Jazzmeia Horn - Up Above My Head - A Social Call
Buster Williams - Where Giants Dwell - Audacity
The Crusaders - Night Faces - Street Life
Fifth Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic - Stoned Soul Picnic
Ibrahim Maalouf - Nomade Slang - Illusions
Charles Mingus - Open Letter To Duke - Better Git It In Your Soul
Carmen McRae - My Ship - Carmen McRae
Jowee Omicil - Love & Honesty - Let’s Bash
Manhattan Transfer - Tuxedo Junction - The Manhattan Transfer
Brian Blade - Crooked Creek - Perceptual
Horace Silver - Pretty Eyes - Cape Verdean Blues
Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood - 30 Greatest Hits
Eddie Gomez - Loco Motive - Power Play
Sarah Vaughan - Lullaby of Birdland - Golden Hits!!!
John Coltrane - Naima - Giant Steps

The ode to musical styles past and present that introduces Jazz Gumbo is “Music Evolution” by Branford Marsalis and Buckshot Lefonque.

Playlists for all past Sets of Jazz Gumbo will be found at jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca


It's been such a long time. And I apologize to all my listeners for the prolonged absence. I haven't got back into the studio yet, but do still have two sets I recorded last August and September that never made it this far.

Here is the first. The second will come shortly. Then, I plan to follow that up before long with a fresh Set from 2019.

Thanks for your patience and for your ears. And Happy New Year! Let's make it a Great One!!!

Thrive!
Kirby Obsidian

Artist - Tune - Album
John Coltrane - Cousin Mary - Giant Steps
Tony Williams - Going Far - The Joy of Flying
Dinah Washington - Blues in the Night - The Complete Dinah Washington
Charles Mingus - Better Git It In Your Soul - Mingus Ah Um
Charnett Moffett - For You - Net Man
Julian Priester - Rhythm Magnet - Polarization
Howard Johnson - Stolen Moments - Gravity!!!
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
The HeadHunters - Ms Yum Yum - Straight from the Gate
Linda Lewis - Lark - Lark
Mark Ronson, Erykay Badu, etal - A La Modeliste - Ronson’s Re:Generation
Return to Forever - 500 Miles High - Light as a Feather
George Duke - Crave E Canela - A Brazilian Love Affair
Opa - Montevideo - Magic Time
David Murray featuring Amiri Baraka - Evidence - Fo Deuk Revue
Wes Montgomery - Up and At It - Down Here on the Ground
Adam Makowicz - Indiana - Moonray
Charles Mingus - Cumbia & Jazz Fusion - Cumbia & Jazz Fusion


A complete record of all Jazz Gumbo Sets is available at jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca


Hello Jazz Lovers!

Sorry that I've been absent for so long.

I came across information that has me concerned about copyright issues related to this Podcast. So I'm not sure that I'll be able to continue.

In the meantime, here's a Set from the early days for you to enjoy.

Thrive!
Kirby

Artist - Tune - Album
Harlem River Drive - Idle Hands - Harlem River Drive
Sonny Fortune - The Afro-Americans - Serengeti Minstrel
David Murray - Village Urbana - Fo Deuk Revue
Joan Armatrading - Down To Zero - Joan Armatrading
Ahmad Jamal - Rossiter Road - Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival 1985
The Bad Plus - Seven Minute Mind - Made Possible
Griot Galaxy - XY Moch - Kins
Sy Smith - Sometimes A Rose Will Grow In Concrete
- Sometimes A Rose Will Grow In Concrete
Wayne Shorter - Diana - Native Dancer
Wayne Shorter - From the Lonely Afternoon - Native Dancer
Aretha Franklin - Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Aretha’s Greatest Hits
Charlie Haden & Quartet West - Live Your Dreams - In Angel City
Robert Glasper - Consequences Of Jealousy - Black Radio
Dinah Washington - What A Diff’rence A Day Made
- What A Diff’rence A Day Makes!
Ramsey Lewis - Collage - Upendo Ni Pamoja
Michael Kaeshammer - Lands End Parade - The Pianist
Anita O’Day - The Moon Looks Down And Laughs - Travelin’ Light
Phronesis, Julian Argüelles - Herne Hill - The Behemoth
Bobby McFerrin featuring Esperanza Spalding - Glory - Spirityouall

The ode to musical styles past and present that introduces Jazz Gumbo is “Music Evolution” by Branford Marsalis and Buckshot LeFonque.

Playlists for all past Sets of Jazz Gumbo will be found at jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca


A glorious Set of music! I can’t help myself. I feel that way about almost every Set, though I did admit to feeling that the last one was kind of a weird mishmash. This Set holds together much better. It flows better. And Aretha’s great cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic soars right in the middle of it.

We’ve lost Aretha. And the last weeks have been full of tributes and memorials to her. My only small addition to the chorus of appreciation and love is to surround her transcendent music with more of the same. And I think this Set manages that. I’ll only draw attention to the two numbers that precede and follow Aretha, The offerings from Wayne Shorter and Charlie Haden. I won’t say any more than that. I’ll just leave it to you to enjoy.

Love!
Kirby