Teddy Edwards - The Inimitable Teddy Edwards

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1976
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:28
Size: 95,1 MB
Art: Front

( 9:59) 1. Sunset Eyes
( 4:43) 2. That Old Black Magic
( 7:20) 3. Mean To Me
( 5:41) 4. Imagine
( 3:35) 5. One On One
(10:08) 6. Stella By Starlight

The underrated tenor great Teddy Edwards had only recorded one album as a leader during before he made this Xanadu date, and he would have to wait around for four years before his next session. The neglect had much more to do with geography (he spent his career living in Los Angeles) than it did with talent. Edwards, backed by pianist Duke Jordan, bassist Larry Ridley, and drummer Freddie Waits, is in top form throughout these five standards (including his most famous original "Sunset Eyes") plus Edwards' newer piece "One on One." Whether it be "Stella by Starlight" (which has an opening tenor cadenza), a relaxed "Mean to Me" or a cooking rendition of "That Old Black Magic," this LP is a superior outing. By Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-inimitable-mw0001881694

Personnel: Teddy Edwards – tenor saxophone; Duke Jordan – piano; Larry Ridley – bass; Freddie Waits – drums

The Inimitable Teddy Edwards

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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 75:31
Size: 173,2 MB
Art: Front

(21:53) 1. A Love Supreme, Pt.I: Acknowledgement
( 2:28) 2. Interlude 1
(11:05) 3. A Love Supreme, Pt.II: Resolution
( 6:23) 4. Interlude 2
(15:27) 5. A Love Supreme, Pt.III: Pursuance
( 6:32) 6. Interlude 3
( 4:20) 7. Interlude 4
( 7:21) 8. A Love Supreme, Pt.IV: Psalm

John Coltrane was moving faster than the speed of sound in 1965. Besides divining his place within the music, the world, his God, he was touring; a two week gig with Thelonious Monk at the Village Gate led to Newport then into a frenetic week in Europe. With the classic quartet plus Archie Shepp, Art Davis and Freddie Hubbard he had just completed the mind-bending sonic assault Ascension (Impulse!, 1966). That anyone could keep up with him or think one step ahead of him was Herculean. Few did. That is why we are still fascinated to listen when they do. To discover. To be some small part of something larger.

A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle memorialises for only the second known time; the first full performance of this holy suite was in Antibes, France, on July 26, 1965 released masterfully after decades of bootlegs, variations, and augmentations galore as part of A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse, 2013).

Discovered in the private collection of Seattle saxophonist and educator Joe Brazil, this blistering October 2, '65 performance culminated a week's residency at The Penthouse, where the fiercely difficult and unapologetically atonal Live In Seattle (Impulse, 1971) was also recorded. Here, we find Coltrane moving singularly beyond the structures and strictures of the summer, expanding the live sound to include not only McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison but also fellow rogue sax visionary Pharoah Sanders, second bassist Donald Raphael Garrett and also on sax Carlos Ward.

Despite the lack of contemporaneous fanfare, and given the fact that the night was recorded with two microphones, A Love Supreme Live In Seattle is not only a performance for the ages but a marvelous sounding one as well. Intensely immersive, the music builds upon the original template until it becomes something startlingly original yet again: A revived prayer, a bold logistic, a howling tribute to the soul. Each man is a force of indisputable nature (check out Tyner and Jones especially on "Pursuance: Part III," Coltrane and Sanders free, shrieking energy throughout.) Wheeling, keening, pleading, the music implores the higher power to reveal himself/herself/itself to the club's capacity crowd (275 very lucky souls) and now it implores us, compels us, to pay reverent attention to every moment. To every breath. And pray. By Mike Jurkovic https://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-love-supreme-live-in-seattle-john-coltrane-impulse-records__25172

Personnel: John Coltrane: saxophone; Pharoah Sanders: saxophone, tenor; Carlos Ward: saxophone, alto; McCoy Tyner: piano; Jimmy Garrison: bass, acoustic; Donald Garrett: bass, acoustic; Elvin Jones: drums.

A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle

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Shirley Horn - All Night Long

Size: 115,2 MB
Time: 49:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1991
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front & Back

01. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (3:56)
02. Someone Like That In Your Life (4:48)
03. How Insensitive (8:05)
04. Good For Nothing Joe (5:38)
05. Git Rid Of Monday (3:39)
06. All Night Long (8:00)
07. If I Had You (4:53)
08. Meditation (4:33)
09. When Your Lover Has Gone (3:12)
10. If Dreams Come True (2:53)

Shirley Horn chose to leave her jazz career during a good part of the '60s and '70s to raise her family, returning to record an album for Steeplechase in 1978. But 1981 marked a significant increase in her output, recording over several days at the Northsea Jazz Festival and producing two CDs from these performances, some of which are heard on All Night Long. Backed by electric bassist Charles Ables (who would remain with her until his death in 2001) and drummer Billy Hart, Horn captivates her audience with her intimate piano playing and understated yet infectious vocals. She works slowly into sparse arrangements of "Someone Like That in Your Life" and "Good for Nothing Joe," hushing the crowd. She makes the most of the bluesy, whimsical "Git Rid of Monday," an overlooked gem by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke. Of course, there are plenty of delightful performances of standards like "If I Had You" and "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To," in addition to thoughtful interpretations of a pair of bossa novas by Antonio Carlos Jobim. ~by Ken Dryden

All Night Long

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Gregory Tardy - Sufficient Grace

Styles: Saxophone And Clarinet Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:00
Size: 130,8 MB
Art: Front

(7:33) 1. The Omnipresent Cardiologist
(6:43) 2. For Deacon Rocky
(5:09) 3. I Choose You
(7:32) 4. A Tree and It's Fruit
(8:47) 5. The Intelligent Design
(4:23) 6. Sufficient Grace
(6:57) 7. Nick Hoot
(9:53) 8. Janel's Love Song

There's way more than sufficient grace going on here and a strongly soulful swing that really has the whole album coming together, right on the money! Maybe that's no surprise, though, given that the set's issued on the excellent WJ3 label from Willie Jones III, who plays drums at the core of the record, next to the bass of Sean Conly while Tardy carves out all these wonderfully fluid, feeling lines next to the trumpet of Marcus Printup who himself sounds better than usual, and makes for a perfect fit for Tardy. Keith Brown handles piano on the quintet session, all tunes are Tardy originals, and titles include "Tree & Its Fruit", "I Choose You", "For Deacon Rock", "The Omnipresent Cardiologist", "Janel's Love Song", and "Nick Hoot". © 1996-2022, Dusty Groove, Inc.https://www.dustygroove.com/item/125727

Personnel: Gregory Tardy - Tenor Saxophone, Bass Clarinet and Clarinet; Marcus Printup - Trumpet; Keith Brown - Piano; Sean Conley - Bass; Willie Jones III - Drums

Sufficient Grace

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