4. Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress Then Silk Blue (Charles Mingus)
Alto Saxophone – Arthur Blythe, David Sanborn
Bass – Steve Neil
Drums – Susan Evans
French Horn – John Clark
Guitar – Keith Loving
Piano – Gil Evans
Synthesizer, Clavinet – Pete Levin
Tenor Saxophone – George Adams
Trombone – Jimmy Knepper
Trumpet – Ernie Royal, Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson
Trumpet, Trumpet [Piccolo] – Lew Soloff
Tuba – Robert Stewart, Howard Johnson
Recorded Live at St. George Church, NYC, May 13, 1977 by CBS Mobile
Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society – Street Priest
All compositions by Ronald Shannon Jackson
1. Street Priest
2. Sperm Walk
3. City Witch
4. Sandflower
5. Hemlock for Cordials
6. Chudo Be
Drums/Arrangements – Ronald Shannon Jackson
Electric Bass – Melvin Gibbs, Reverend Bruce Johnson
Electric Guitar – Vernon Reid
Saxophone – Lee Rozie, Zane Massey
Flute – Ronald Shannon Jackson (tracks: B1), Zane Massey (tracks: B1)
Producer – Burkhard Hennen
Recorded By – Bernd Steinwedel
Recorded at: Studio Nord, Bremen 13th-16th June 1981
Great album by a great band on a great label. Pheeroan akLaff and Anthony Davis are stellar, as expected, and Buster Williams kills it on Comous. Lake is determined and focused throughout, wearing the band like a fine suit around his tunes. Don't sleep on Michael Gregory's T-fon, either.
All compositions by Oliver Lake except as indicated
Rite-ing
Comous
Shu-ful
T-fon (Michael Gregory Jackson)
Change One
Of Is
Oliver Lake - Alto Saxophone
Michael Gregory Jackson - Guitar
Anthony Davis - Piano
Pheeroan akLaff - Drums
Buster Williams - Bass (#2)
Leonard Jones - Bass (#3-5)
Oh man, if you can't find something you like on this record, I can't help you. A couple of power trios, a couple of sing-songs, a couple of free jazz boogies, and great playing from the core of Blood Ulmer, Amin Ali on bass, and the great G. Calvin Weston on drums. A stone classic.
All compositions by James Blood Ulmer except as indicated
I picked up this recording in a batch of several dozen 78's I acquired with my cabinet Victrola out on Long Beach, WA a long time ago. The Victrola never got up and running, but the few gems in the 78 collection really shine. I don't imagine this particular recording is technically out of print, but wouldn't you like to hear it off the original 78? I would.
I discovered Ted Curson the same moment I discovered Eric Dolphy, when someone laid a cassette of Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus on me my first month of school. It was a revelation in every aspect, from the compositions to the free improv to the blurred lines in between, to the raw sound of a piano-less Mingus quartet, to the seemingly instinctual communication between the musicians, especially Danny Richmond and Mingus. Ted Curson's name was etched in my mind, although I could not find him on another Mingus record. I barely found him at all except for his Tears for Dolphy album, a 1964 session recorded in Paris. Flip Top features more tunes from that session with tenor saxophonist Bill Barron and two of his tunes (Desolation and Light Blue) on side one. Side two is a different story. Recorded live at the 1966 Yugoslavia Jazz Festival, Curson is featured with the Zagreb Radio Orchestra on three of his compositions. He blows some great solos, and the arrangements are tight enough to fly, loose enough to vamp, and an interesting look at a composer with a couple years under Mingus's baton on his resume. Makes me wonder why on one ever gave Mingus the Zagreb Radio Orchestra.
All compositions by Ted Curson except where noted.
1.
Searchin´ For The Blues
2.
Desolation (Barron)
3.
Light Blue (Barron)
4.
Quicksand
5.
Straight Ice
6.
Flip Top
1-3
Ted Curson - Trumpet
Bill Barron - Tenor Sax
Herb Bushler - Bass
Dick Berk - Drums recorded Paris, 1964
4-6
Ted Curson with the Zagreb Radio Orchestra, arr. Zita Carno recorded live at 1966 Yugoslavia Jazz Festival
I had a passionate affair with Arthur Blythe's cello-guitar-tuba band a few years ago. I had heard Lenox Avenue Breakdown and I had In The Tradition, but the bug didn't bite me until I happened upon Illusions. From there I found Blythe Spirit and was on my way to discovering this band and the haunting, unforgettable Blythe tone. About five years ago in 2007 I found Light Blue at the old Underdog Records in lower Queen Anne. By then I was actively looking for this group, but I didn't know they did a Monk album, now one of my favorite Monk interpretations. My old cold beer buddy asked for a copy so I figured this was a good enough reason to start posting these discoveries.
