George Adams - Hand To Hand

Styles: Saxophone And Flute Jazz
Year: 1980
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:48
Size: 91,7 MB
Art: Front

( 9:14)  1. The Cloocker
(10:58)  2. Yamani's Passion
( 8:12)  3. For Dee J.
(11:22)  4. Joobubie

A passionate tenor and flute player who was not shy to break up chordal improvising with an unexpected scream or roar, George Adams was an original voice who (like his friend Don Pullen) crossed over several stylistic boundaries. He started on piano, but by the time he was in high school he was playing tenor in funk bands. In 1961, he toured with Sam Cooke, and in 1963 Adams moved to Ohio where he played with organ groups for the next few years. In 1968, he relocated to New York where he played with Roy Haynes, Gil Evans, and Art Blakey, among others. However, it was his association with Charles Mingus (1973-1976) that gave him his initial fame. After playing a bit with McCoy Tyner, Adams co-led a stimulating quartet with Don Pullen that made many records. Late in life, Adams (who enjoyed taking an occasional raspy blues vocal) teamed up with James Blood Ulmer in the group Phalanx, and occasionally played with Mingus Dynasty. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-adams-mn0000804097/biography

Personnel: Tenor Saxophone, Flute – George Adams; Bass – Mike Richmond; Drums – Dannie Richmond; Piano – Hugh Lawson; Trombone – Jimmy Knepper

Hand To Hand

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Kenny Dorham - Swedish Sessions 1964

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:35
Size: 146,4 MB
Art: Front

(10:39)  1. Short Story
( 7:37)  2. I Concentrate On You
(10:13)  3. Not Yet
( 6:52)  4. Short Story II
( 7:02)  5. Dorams Epitaph a.k.a. Extension
( 6:59)  6. For All We Know
( 6:25)  7. I Had The Craziest Dream
( 7:44)  8. Skandia Skies

It is a mystery that some musicians do not get the name and wide recognition that is granted to others. Trumpeter Kenny Dorham is one. And although Dorham was in Dizzy Gillespie's big band, Miles replaced Charlie Parker's quintet and Clifford Brown at Max Roach when the former died too early, Dorham had a hard time living his music. Hard to believe when you hear these recordings from Stockholm in 1964. Three songs in studio with Björn Alkes and Bosse Skoglund's hard swinging and forward-leaning rhythm section with Lars Sjösten on piano. The second recording is from the jazz club Gyllene Cirkeln where Göran Lindberg took over the piano stool in front of bassist Göran Pettersson and drummer Leif Wennerström. Dorham is any good at these Swedish sessions, I have to choose it leans on the heat of the studio versions even though Göran Lindberg's piano play in For all we know shimmers. https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/listenin-to-jazz-and-conversation.586956/page-1973

Swedish Sessions 1964

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