LUIS RUSSELL HOT SIX – Chicago, March 10, 1926 29th and Dearborn, Sweet Mumtaz George Mitchell (cnt) Kid Ory (tb) Albert Nicholas (cl,as,sop) Barney Bigard (ts) Luis Russell (p) Johnny St. Cyr (bj) Richard M. Jones (speech-1) HEEBIE JEEBIE STOMPERS – Chicago, November 17, 1926 Plantation joys, Please don’t turn me down, Dolly mine Bob […]

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JULIUS HEMPHILL “DOGON A.D.” – St. Louis, Missouri, February, 1972 Dogon A.D. Baikida Carroll (tp) ] Julius Hemphill (as,fl) Abdul Wadud (cello) Phillip Wilson (d)             PAUL BLEY “WITH GARY PEACOCK” – New York, April 13, 1963 Blues, Getting started, Long ago and far away Paul Bley (p) Gary Peacock […]

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THE VINCE GUARALDI “JAZZ IMPRESSIONS OF BLACK ORPHEUS” – San Francisco, CA, November 1961 & February 1962 Samba de Orfeu, Manha de carnaval, Since I fell for you Vince Guaraldi (p) Monty Budwig (b) Colin Bailey (d)             BARNEY KESSEL “LET’S COOK !” – Los Angeles, November 11, 1957 Time […]

ALICE COLTRANE “TRANSLINEAR LIGHT” – Hollywood, CA, February 18, 2004 Crescent (1,3) Ravi Coltrane (ts-3) Alice Coltrane (p-1,Wurlitzer org-2) Charlie Haden (b) Jack DeJohnette (d) – Burbank, CA, April 27 & 28, 2004 Blue Nile (1,3,4,6) Ravi Coltrane (ts-3) Alice Coltrane (p-1,synt-2) James Genus (b-4) Charlie Haden (b-5) Jeff “Tain” Watts (d-6) – Agoura, CA, […]

FLORIAN WEISS’ WOODOISM “ALTERNATE REALITY” – Vienna, November 3-5, 2020 Inhale, exhale, Shivering timbers, Wabi-sabi Florian Weiss (tb,comp) Linus Amstad (as,fl) Valentin V. Fischer (b) Philipp Leibundgut (d,glockenspiel)             ANDREW CYRILLE “LEBROBA” – New York, July, 2017 Worried woman, Lebroba, Pretty beauty Wadada Leo Smith (tp) Bill Frisell (g) Andrew […]

  ART FARMER “AT BOOMERS” – New York, May 14 & 15, 1976 Will you still be mine ?, What’s new (cj out) Art Farmer (flis) Clifford Jordan (st) Cedar Walton (p) Sam Jones (b) Billy Higgins (dr)             HANK JONES “THE ORACLE”   – New York, March, 1989 The […]

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