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Wo ich grad auf der Moved by Sound Website war – dort gab’s ja letzten Juni auch noch ein interessantes Reissue:
Children Of The Sun – Ofamfa
(LP/CD/DL, 3. Juni 2024)Original released in 1971 by the BAG groups own label “Universal Justice Records” this album has for years been an impossible to find/listen to album, and this is its first reissue ever ..
Ofamfa by The Children Of The Sun, a band lead by poet/musicien Ajule/aka Bruce Rutlin Is a heady mix of poetry/jazz/political songs/ and a document of a comunity avent. The BAG group being about all the arts theater and dance.
The original liner notes by Ajule are great Insight in to the creative/vibrant politically aware jazz scene of St Louise in the late 60s early 70s. This album is an important piece of black American history, and even as a visual artifact it is the thing!Rashu Aten / conga, small instruments
Oliver Lake / soprano & alto sax, flute, poems, small instruments
Floyd LeFlore / trumpet, small instruments
Ishac Rajab / trumpet
Arzinia Richardson / bass, small instruments Vincent Terrell / cello
Charles “Bobo” Shaw / drums, small instruments
Ajule / poetry, arrangements, small instruments, drumshttps://moved-by-sound.bandcamp.com/album/ofamfa
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"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #164: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv, 10.6., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tbaHighlights von Rolling-Stone.deDie 30 besten EDM-Alben aller Zeiten
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Hat Zappa und Bob Marley noch live erlebt!lotterlotta
nächsten freitag auf bandcamp, wohl ein muss…..Hat Du einen Link dazu? Danke.
Ist noch nicht aufgeschaltet, aber hier gibt’s die zugehörige News:
https://matsulimusic.bandcamp.com/community?from=com-e-nm&sid=1742967&st=sm
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"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #164: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv, 10.6., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tbagypsy-tail-wind Ist noch nicht aufgeschaltet, aber hier gibt’s die zugehörige News: https://matsulimusic.bandcamp.com/community?from=com-e-nm&sid=1742967&st=sm
Danke. Werde die Augen offen halten.
Das neue Reissue (LP/CD/DL) von Pharoah Sanders‘ „Izipho Zam“ hat man hier mitgekriegt, nehme ich an?
https://pharoahsanders.bandcamp.com/album/izipho-zam-my-gifts
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"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #164: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv, 10.6., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tbaBritish Jazz Explosion auf Vinyl anybody? Dann Helm auf und anschnallen:
Bereits erhältlich:
JOHN CAMERON – Off Centre 1969
„How is it that the 1969 album „Off Centre“ is considered one of the most sought-after British jazz albums and only changes hands for large sums of money, even though frontman John Cameron is not a well-known jazz musician? It’s simple: Cameron is one of the most successful and versatile British studio artists, has arranged hits for pop stars such as Donovan, Cilla Black and Hot Chocolate and composed music for well-known films and TV series. Deep down, however, Cameron must be a jazz musician, as demonstrated by his quartet album as a pianist together with bassist Danny Thompson (Nick Drake, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel), saxophonist and flautist Harold McNair (Quincy Jones, Blossom Dearie, Ginger Baker) and drummer Tony Carr (Bryan Ferry, Joan Armatrading, Wings). The dynamically swinging and grooving album is now receiving its first vinyl re-release, remastered at Abbey Road Studios from the original analog tapes. A large-format insert presents a detailed new interview with John Cameron.“
Ab Ende Juli:
MIKE TAYLOR – Pendulum 1966
MIKE TAYLOR – Trio 1967„Rarely a month goes by without more gems from the ‘golden age’ of British jazz are dusted off and reissued in lovingly reproduced and expertly remastered packages – and fans of the revered but tragic figure that was pianist and composer Mike Taylor will welcome the news that his two studio albums, Pendulum and Trio, are to be reissued on 25 July.
Pendulum (first released in 1966) has been remastered at Gearbox Records‘ Studios, London, with the high resolution digital source files, taken from the original master tapes, transferred to a Studer C37 reel-to-reel tape machine and mastered using an all-valve analogue mastering chain, including an ex-Decca Studio 3-band EQ and Telefunken U73b compressors. Lacquers were cut using a Scully disc mastering lathe with Westrex cutter head and cutting amps. The Mike Taylor Trio album (from 1967) has also been remastered at Gearbox Records’ Studios, London, directly from the original tapes, using a Studer C37 ¼-inch stereo tape machine. They were then equalised through an all-valve mastering desk built bespoke for Decca studios in the late 1950s, Vintage Lang Pultec EQ, Prism Maselec EQ and Telefunken U73b valve limiters from 1959. The LP lacquers were cut on a beautifully restored Haeco Scully Lathe from 1967 with Westrex (Western Electric) head and cutting amps; the same lathe that Rudy Van Gelder used.
The tragic story of Taylor’s life and death, aged 30, after he walked into the sea in 1969, cut short the life of one of the key players in the development of British jazz and whose story reads like that of a grand opera, embracing exceptional music, high drama, mental illness, drugs and death.
The extraordinary story of Mike Taylor reads like a tragic tale one normally associates with the very worst in rock n roll excess. There are echoes of Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green, Syd Barrett, Vince Taylor (the inspiration behind Ziggy Stardust) and Nick Drake, and a support cast which includes Cream’s Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, Colosseum’s Jon Hiseman, and doomed occultist jazzer Graham Bond. And yet, at the very heart of the tragic tale is an exceptionally talented artist and two of the most prized and valuable British Jazz LPs ever recorded – Pendulum (1966) and Trio (1967). Both of these holy-grail rarities are finally getting a well-deserved vinyl reissue through UMG/Decca as part of the label’s British Jazz Explosion series curated by Tony Higgins.
Taylor’s key span of activity was from 1962-1968, a period that saw him go from being a well- groomed and bespectacled ivy-league figure to a shoeless, bearded and mentally ill vagrant. During that time, it is thought he composed over 200 pieces yet only a handful were ever recorded or performed. So scant are the details of his life that he could be mistaken for a work of fiction. In the space of a few years, Taylor contributed material to the New Jazz Orchestra, Colosseum and Cream, and composed many more pieces that remain unrecorded or lost, with charts and manuscripts destroyed by his own hand as his mental condition rapidly deteriorated.
Taylor’s brief jazz career began in the early 60s when he, like so many other aspirant jazz musicians, played the smoke-filled bars and clubs in and around London. Hailing from a comfortable middle-class home in Ealing, West London, Taylor soon emerged as a singular talent on the piano, his abstract and modernist sound fusing the styles of Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Thelonius Monk and Lennie Tristano with European impressionist and epigrammatic composers such as Satie and Debussy. His unique approach attracted like-minded players keen to expand and experiment with their repertoire. Band members included a young drummer called Peter Baker— better known as Ginger—with whom Taylor would go on to write songs for psychedelic blues rock legends Cream. Baker’s own Cream bandmate Jack Bruce would also play and record with Taylor, appearing on the Trio album.
Bass player Tony Reeves, who appears on Taylor’s debut album Pendulum, said Taylor “occupied a unique musical space. It was avant-garde but not fully, not enough to scare people. He could arrange standards, like ‘A Night in Tunisia’, starting in a completely different way; nobody else did that. That’s why I liked him; it was a band that was doing things that nobody else was. When you’re that young, you’re a sponge, you want to absorb all kinds of music and play it. A bit of danger, take risks. A little bit near the edge of the cliff, and sometimes looking over. Sadly, in Mike’s case, he would eventually go completely over.”
That precipitous fall was accelerated by Taylor’s prodigious intake of hash and LSD in ever greater amounts from the mid-60s onwards. By 1965, Taylor was still competent enough to record Pendulum, a stunning debut album, for legendary British jazz producer Denis Preston at the famed Lansdowne Studios. The album is split between reworked standards arranged by Taylor on Side A (including a radical rework of Dizzy Gillespie’s A Night in Tunisia) and original compositions from Taylor on Side B. Reviews were positive but sales were low, not helped by Taylor refusing to do any promotion.
Despite Pendulum’s lack of commercial success, producer Preston invited Taylor back into Lansdowne studios in July 1966 to record a follow-up, Trio. Featuring Jon Hiseman on drums, and both Ron Rubin and Jack Bruce on bass, Trio builds upon the foundation set by Pendulum and presents Taylor inhabiting a unique musical space that defies the usual categorisation of cool, free jazz, or hard bop or modal; it’s many of these things and more.
As his mental state deteriorated and his LSD use increased, Taylor’s marriage collapsed and his appearance became ever more dishevelled. He sported a large unkempt beard with his hair growing down way past his shoulders and he walked around in bare feet; a sort of proto-hippy. Things were not helped when saxophonist and organist Graham Bond, a heavy drug user and occultist, moved in with Taylor. Bond’s own erratic behaviour, failed marriage and dire financial straits mirrored that of Taylor. Bond would eventually die in May 1974 under a tube train at Finsbury Park station aged just 36. Taylor ended up homeless, living as a mute vagrant, only communing with the deer in Richmond Park.
“By the time Trio was recorded, Mike’s madness had become so extreme that he and I had fallen out with each other and working together had become impossible,” says Dave Tomlin, who played sax on Pendulum. “The last time I saw him was when he arrived about a year later at the door of the London Free School where I was a resident music teacher. Not recognising him, I invited him in and offered a cup of tea. Then, taking a closer look, I saw through the bare feet and shaggy beard my old musical friend Mike Taylor. He would not speak but stayed a few days mostly walking round the streets banging a small drum.”
As Taylor’s mental decline accelerated, it coincided with the release in August 1968 of Cream’s hit album Wheels of Fire. Taylor had three co-writes on it with Ginger Baker but even the hint of financial reward and some commercial success did not arrest Taylor’s further descent into madness and eventual death in the icy waters of the Thames. Much like that of Nick Drake, Taylor’s demise went largely unremarked in the music press at the time.
In the years following his death, Taylor’s name slipped from memory of all but his closest friends. His two Lansdowne albums languished in obscurity, out of print for decades, slowly rising in staggering value on the collectors’ market. The importance of these two LPs cannot be understated.“
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How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?Endlich wieder mal ein Reissue von „Pendulum“ – sehr toll! (Klar hätte ich lieber die CD, aber die ist weiterhin viel zu teuer … wenn ich da allerdings die Versandkosten in die Schweiz dazunehme killt mich die LP auch … aber es wird ja noch andere Kanäle geben, hoffe ich).
Ds sind natürlich drei Alben, die allesamt lohnen (die anderen beiden habe ich seit längerem auf CD).
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"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #164: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv, 10.6., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tba@gypsy-tail-wind: Ich hätte wetten können, dass Du bereits eine vernünftige Ausgabe von „Pendulum“ im Regal hast. Oder hast Du eine mit der Du aber nicht ganz zufrieden bist?
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How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?clauIch hätte wetten können, dass Du bereits eine vernünftige Ausgabe von „Pendulum“ im Regal hast. Oder hast Du eine mit der Du aber nicht ganz zufrieden bist?
Nein, das Album fehlt mir leider! Ich habe nur dieses Reissue des ersten Albums mit einem langen Track von „Pendulum“ als Bonus:
https://www.discogs.com/release/18394447-Mike-Taylor-Trio-Quartet-Composer-RevisitedLaut Discogs gab es abgesehen von der unbezahlbaren Original-LP abgesehen nur ein einziges Reissue (eben die CD, 2007), das ich damals leider verpasst habe:
https://www.discogs.com/release/2331255-Mike-Taylor-Quartet-Pendulum--
"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #164: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv, 10.6., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tbaDanke @clau für den Reminder. Hab ich gleich bestellt. Ich finde diese Serie ganz großartig.
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Well...you like flowers and I like liqourhurleyDanke @clau für den Reminder. Hab ich gleich bestellt. Ich finde diese Serie ganz großartig.
Ja, ich auch. Bisher habe ich jeden Titel gekauft und alle sind in der Sammlung geblieben. Kommerziell sonderlich erfolgreich scheint die Serie zwar nicht zu sein, aber immerhin ist sie nicht ganz eingeschlafen. Wenn sie jetzt noch irgendwann „Greek Variations“ von Ardley, Carr und Rendell wiederveröffentlichen…
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How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?clau
hurleyDanke @clau für den Reminder. Hab ich gleich bestellt. Ich finde diese Serie ganz großartig.
Ja, ich auch. Bisher habe ich jeden Titel gekauft und alle sind in der Sammlung geblieben. Kommerziell sonderlich erfolgreich scheint die Serie zwar nicht zu sein, aber immerhin ist sie nicht ganz eingeschlafen. Wenn sie jetzt noch irgendwann „Greek Variations“ von Ardley, Carr und Rendell wiederveröffentlichen…
Wundert mich auch sehr, dass diese Serie scheinbar nicht so erfolgreich ist, dabei waren bislang nur großartige Alben dabei. Auch „Off Centre“ weiß sofort zu begeistern. Allein das hier Danny Thompson am Bass ist und der sehr früh verstorbene Harold McNair u.a. an der flute sind ein ziemliches Highlight. Ganz zu schweigen von Camerons Fähigkeiten am Piano.
Auf „Greek Variations“ würde ich mich auch sehr freuen aber am meisten erhoffe ich mir ein Reissue von „Harry Beckett’s Warm Smiles“.--
Well...you like flowers and I like liqour„Harry Beckett’s Warm Smiles“ habe ich mir aufgeschrieben. Nie von gehört, was mir bei britischem Jazz oft vorkommt, aber gerade deshalb neugierig macht.
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How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?clau
„Harry Beckett’s Warm Smiles“ habe ich mir aufgeschrieben. Nie von gehört, was mir bei britischem Jazz oft vorkommt, aber gerade deshalb neugierig macht.Sehr zu empfehlen, ebenso „Flare Up“ und „Themes for Fega“ (die drei gab’s alle in ordentlichen CD-Reissues, „Smiles“ und „Themes“ zusammen als Doppel-CD).
„Pendulum“ ist inzwischen überall gelistet, sehe ich … auch bei einem Anbieter in der Schweiz (cede.ch), wo ich das Ding dann wohl kaufen werde.
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"Don't play what the public want. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doin' -- even if it take them fifteen, twenty years." (Thelonious Monk) | Meine Sendungen auf Radio StoneFM: gypsy goes jazz, #164: Neuheiten aus dem Archiv, 10.6., 22:00 | Slow Drive to South Africa, #8: tba | No Problem Saloon, #30: tba
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