Meditative Jazz

Games, by Dorothy Ashby from the album, Afro Harping.
Brandee Younger, Harp
Dezron Douglas, Bass
EJ Strickland, Drums

Games

Liberia

Equinox

Ibrahim Maalouf - Doubts 2

Eden (Hania Rani)

Håkon Kornstad - Oslo (Wasserfall Remiks)

Ice Spice - Deli (Poyo Spirit Remix)

#MTL23 #MambaYear BeatTape 2/8/24 #MTLWorldWide

Soledad De Murcia (Prod. By Michael Naura Quartett And MozayHunna)

Winter by Black Flower (album Abyssinia Afterlife)

Dorothy Ashby - Essence Of Sapphire

Miroslav Vitous – Infinite Search (1970)

Memória de Elefante 06/12/24
Autor: Francesco Valente

Uma rubrica que revela eventos, curiosidades, lançamentos, aniversários e fatos históricos ligados ao universo da música popular mundial.

Miroslav Vitous – Infinite Search (1970)

leroy hutson - cool out (Rath Remix).aif

There are few Australian originals in jazz, though vibraphonist Alan Lee surely ranks alongside the best. Australian jazz is and always will be an interpretation of the American art form, but throughout his long career Lee has ploughed his furrow undaunted, 'What I want is the fire! Whether it's John Coltrane's Blues Minor from Africa Brass or Backwater Blues by Leadbelly, I want the emotion, the gut wrenching pain, the cry from within!'

These are uninhibited words. A musician and bandleader who cut a number of jazz sides for small independent Melbourne labels from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, Lee has always searched for this fire, evident in the broad styles he's covered throughout his career, and which we have attempted to explore here, the first and only collection of music from Alan Lee. From '60s soul jazz, to the deep modal sounds of the early '70s and cross-genre experiments exhibited in his chamber jazz, Lee's personal life has been as varied and explorative as his music, a journey that has taken him beyond the thresholds of jazz improvisation and spiritual awareness.

The tracks that feature on this anthology were recorded by various incarnations of Lee's band and are taken from across three albums recorded between 1973 and 1974. These albums represent the sole output in LP format that can be credited to Lee as band leader, and all are collectors' items in their own right. The deep modal version of Love Song and Freddie Hubbard's perennial spiritual jazz standard Little Sunflower are both taken from the self-titled LP 'Alan Lee Jazz Quartet'. The album 'Gallery Concerts 1973', which was recorded for Bruce Clarke's jazz sub-label Cumquat Records, provides us with a fierce electric-jazz version of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring: Dance Of The Adolescents plus the plaintive chamber jazz of John Lewis' Sketch as well two tracks featuring vocalist Jeannie Lewis; Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 and the beautiful Bailero in which Lee exchanges the vibraphone for the conductors role in presiding over a jazz trio accompanied by a seven piece concert ensemble. Completing this compendium is a track taken from the 1974 follow-up recording for Jazznote, the album titled 'The Smilor'; included is a cover of the Milt Jackson-penned Enchanted Lady.

What you are hearing on this album is the story of one man's travels, a journey within a foreign art form but also a journey within himself. Illustrated in the stories Lee shares, such as his correspondence with fellow vibraphone player Gary Burton on how to achieve advanced extended techniques for the vibraphone (resulting in pages of technical diagrams) or travelling across the US to purchase an original 1940s Deagan Imperial Vibraphone from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra 'Just to get that Milt Jackson sound'. There are moments of deep introspection and intellect in Lee's playing, emotional music that contains and shares a common spiritual oneness, seeking the thrill he experienced after first listening to Lionel Hampton and the Benny Goodman Quartet. 'The emotion, the gut wrenching pain, the cry from within.'

04 Alan Lee - Enchanted Lady [clip]

OM LP 09

A1 Jorge Reyes - Plight 
A2 Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - Mille Voix 
A3 Iona Fortune - White Tigress	

B1 O Yuki Conjugate - Cloud Cover	
B2 X.Y.R. - Middle Of Nowhere 
B3 Jon Keliehor - Subcontinent	
B4 David Cunningham - Blue River
	
C1 Larry Chernicoff - Woodstock, New York 
C2 Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz - Desert Equations (For Brion Gysin) 
C3 Jon Hassell - Miracle Steps	
C4 Vulgata - Ethel I 

D1 Afro-Disiak - Tambours D'Eau 
D2 Rapoon - The Same River Once	
D3 Javier Segura - El Sueno Perdido	

Optimo Music presents "Miracle Steps (Music from the Fourth World 1983 - 2017)", a 2 x LP compilation of Fourth World music compiled by JD Twitch & Fergus Clark. Also available as a digital release. 

This compilation had been on the label’s to do list for ages but it was only when Twitch and Glasgow’s Fergus Clark started crossing swords over what actually constituted Fourth World music that the project really got going. Twitch decided that co-compiling the release with someone who had a slightly different take on things might make for a more interesting finished release, and so it came to pass that a cohesively thrilling compilation quickly materialised as each of them drew from a wealth of different artists and eras.


For the uninitiated, here’s an extract from Fergus Clark’s sleeve notes honing in on how the term Fourth World (an idea conjured up by Jon Hassell in the early 80s) might be defined -


“What we have attempted to gather across this compilation is a body of work which we feel directly resonates with both the literal definition of ‘Fourth World’ music and indeed our own interpretation of this unique sonic vision; from the work of the late Jorge Reyes, a Mexican musician who combined pre-hispanic instruments with synthesisers and digital sampling, through to the work of organic ambient ensemble O Yuki Conjugate. There are tracks which utilise custom, home-made instruments and there are tracks built from scratch using the latest in digital technology, but the undercurrent tying each piece together is this deeply personal feeling of intrigue and mysterious elation. Strange and unparalleled, this feeling manages to eschew geographic borders and rigid genre movements in favour of something which manages to evoke an inner sanctum, a musical private place for both reflection and assessment. This is music grounded in nor the past nor the present, music which manages to sound futuristic yet remarkably nostalgic. “


JD Twitch is one half of Glasgow’s Optimo (Espacio) and runs the Optimo Music and Optimo Trax labels.

Fergus Clark is a writer, occasional DJ and avid music fan. He is a founding member of the music and art collective 12th Isle.

The 2 x LP version will be housed in a gatefold sleeve designed by the redoubtable Glasgow based visual artists Al White & Jamie Johnson.

Released on vinyl (and digital) on April 14th 2017. Distributed by Kompakt.

OM 09 LP - Various - Miracle Steps (Music From The Fourth World 1983 - 2017)

Isadora (christian scott atunde adjuah cover)

I dont own any copyrights to the song.

ALICE COLTRANE

Alice Coltrane - Turiya & Ramakrishna (Hokkaido Remix)

Dutchy - 0607082012 - Astral Traveling 

PHAROAH SANDERS FLIP. ABLETON IDDISH.

0607082012 - Astral Traveling

Download / Stream: https://kryptox.lnk.to/OrangeMan

First single from the upcoming compilation "KRAUT JAZZ FUTURISM" that portraits the new Berlin "Neo-Jazz" scene. 
Karl Hector & The Malcouns, founded by JJ Whitefield (Stones Throw, Now Again, Daptone, Ninja Tune), lead the way with the exclusive track "Orange Man". An ethno-kraut-jazz-funkmasterpiece.
This band is part of a new German wave. After the UK jazz and US jazz hype it's time for the german jazz revolution. But while the new US & UK jazz is more influenced by hip hop and R&B, the young German jazz musicians are rooted in Krautrock and electronic music.

Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Orange Man

6. Dorothy Ashby - Come Live with Me

A Taste Of Honey (Paul Desmond ver.)

From Pierrick Pédron's album "Deep in a Dream" (Plus Loin Music)

Pierrick Pédron - Saxophone alto
Mulgrew Miller - Piano

Recorded by Joe Marciano, Max Ross assisted, at Systems Two, on November 2005. Mixed by Joe Marciano, David Weiss and Max Ross at Systems Two, on June 2006. Mastered by Yves at Studio Dyam (Paris), on July 2006.

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