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Selection: The Creator has a Masterplan (Part 2) . . . Tracklist The Creator Has a Master Plan – Part 1; & 2 (“Light Of Love”); Colors (5:43) Artists Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone; Reggie Workman, Richard Davis, bass; William Hart, … Continue reading
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Strata East was the quintessential US independent 70s jazz label “Strata-East Records is an American record company and label specializing in jazz founded in 1971 by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell with the release of their first recording Music Inc. The label released over 50 albums in … Continue reading
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Warning! LJC hits rock-bottom with an “unlicensed copy” from digital sources. Exceptional circumstances, it’s a Vinyl Emergency. Selection 1 – the opening: Ptah, The El Daoud (Alice Coltrane) . .  . Selection 2 – the close: Mantra (Alice Coltrane) . … Continue reading
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UPDATES September 11, photos Leon Thomas and Roy Haynes from Harry M, to Harrys Place; Melody Maker June 1980 full page interview with Pharoah, to Appendix. Enough of British Jazz for the moment, back to The USA, and one of … Continue reading
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A Midweek Jazz post, for a change, a record LJC feels quite enthusiastic about. Artists  Dadisi Komolafe (Arthur Wells), alto saxophone, flute; Roberto Miranda, bass; Sunship Theus, drums;  Eric Tillman, piano; Rickey Kelly, vibraphone, recorded Los Angeles, October 1983, engineers Dennis … Continue reading
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Selection: Priestess (Harper) . . . Track List: A1 Awakening 6:55 A2 Priestess 11:33 B1 Love On The Sudan 17:11 Artists Bily Harper, tenor saxophone; Everett Hollins, trumpet; Mickey Tucker, piano; Gregg Maker, Bass; Malcolm Pinson, drums;  recorded in New York … Continue reading
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Selection: Sad To Be Glad (Earl Grubbs) , , , Artists Earl Grubbs, tenor sax; Carl Grubbs, alto sax; Kenny Barron, piano; Buster Williams, bass; Albert Heath, drums; Sonny Morgan, misc. percussion. Recorded May 7, 1974, recording Paul Goodman (RCA), mastered … Continue reading
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An uncommercial island, Stanley Cowell and Charles Tolliver’s Strata East Records, stubbornly surrounded by increasingly commercial waters, making music to satisfy its core listening audience rather college boys and the bachelor demographic, who had moved on elsewhere. Venturing further into … Continue reading
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