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Mal schnell auf RYM nachgeschaut: Sein Leader- Album „Kawaida“ ist da gut bewertet.
Jetzt bin ich darauf richtig aufmerksam geworden, weil ich aus der Richtung auch noch zu wenig kenne. Hier gerade auf heavy rotation: „Dark Beauty“ von Kenny Drew, mit NHOP und Albert Tootie Heath, von 1974.
EI: Kawaida is a record of grooves, with nothing swinging. You played a lot of grooves with Herbie Hancock and others in that era, too. In fact, you are one of the few guys that played the real bebop with the masters in 1960 and then the new groove languages with the cats in 1970. Not everybody could – or was willing – to do that.
AH: I always try to look around and see what’s important in the time.
AH: I like The Gentle Giant (Yusef Lateef), but it’s out of print for sure. There was some different people involved in that, too. But Yusef let me play flute on it, I remember that. He always pushed every one of us to compose and play other instruments, and also advocated going to school.
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