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Selection: Astral Travelling (Lonnie Liston Smith) . . . Track List A1. Astral Travelling (Lonnie Liston Smith) – 5:48A2. Red, Black & Green (Sanders) – 8:56A3. Thembi (Sanders) – 7:02B1. Love (Cecil McBee, solo) – 5:12B2. Morning Prayer (Sanders, Liston … Continue reading
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Selection: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt (Lower Egypt, extract) . . . Track List A1. Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt  – 16:12B1. Japan   – 3:22B2. Aum/Venus/Capricorn Rising  – 14:46 Artists Pharoah Sanders, tenor, alto sax, piccolo, voice; Dave Burrell, piano; Sonny Sharrock … Continue reading
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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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Selection: Half and Half (Charles Davis) . . . Track List A1. Nuttin’ Out Jones (Lawsha) – 5:36A2. Oriental Flower (Tyner) – 3:49A3. Half and Half (Charles Davis) – 6:28B1. Aborigines Dance in Scotland (Simmons) – 4:12B2. Gettin’ on Way … 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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Selection: Spirit of 1976 (Michael Barone) . . . Seamless link from last weeks Paul Horn to this week, Emil Richards, and Donte’s. Mike Barone credited with the title composition, and given a by-line by Richards at the opening. An … 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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Selection: Stolen Moments Verve Acoustic Sounds 2021 Stereo – replacement rip (L/R corrected), . . . Soundcheck – Old vs New Stolen Moments Impulse Ampar 1961 Van Gelder mono master (replacement fresh rip) . . . Mono US AmPar original, … Continue reading
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UPDATED June 7, 2020 – Harry M hits the spot-focus, photos Kenny Barron 1970 & Jack de Johnette 1969 added to foot of post. Selection: Tetragon (Henderson) . . . Artists Two Henderson sessions, eight months apart, recorded at Plaza … Continue reading
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Summer 2019 starts on Friday, June 21, 2019 (in 21 days) and ends on Monday, September 23rd 2019 (in 115 days). Rapidly approaching, lazy days and warm nights, the living is easy, an early taste of Summertime. Head-To-Head, another Jazz Standard goes into … Continue reading
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Playing catch-up, I somehow missed posting first time around this title, more Oliver Nelson on Impulse, More Blues….and the Abstract Truth AS-75. I’m not sure what “Abstract Truth” means in this context, but it sure sounds intellectually impressive, so let’s … Continue reading
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Selection: Patterns . . . Artists: Patterns, The Shadow Of Your Smile, Elegy For A Duck (Capitol Studios, NYC, September 7, 1966) Oliver Nelson, soprano sax; Steve Kuhn, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Grady Tate, drums. Sound Piece For Jazz Orchestra … Continue reading
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After a brief sortie into the mid -70s, LJC returns to the early 60s, closer to Home. Selection: Contemporary Focus . . . Artists: Impulse title containing two sessions, recorded eight months apart, three tracks in trio, three in sextet … Continue reading
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LJC reader Tracy discovered this rarely seen trade promotional pack for Impulse Records, dating I think from 1970 (if the serial number IMPS 70 AUG is anything to go by. Certainly, that is the year Archie Shepp “For Losers” was released). … Continue reading
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LondonJazzCollector reaches 3 million page views since its inception in 2011. To celebrate, I’ve been building up a monster post. This is it, and it is monsterous: a multi-dimensional music comparison, borrowing ideas from another of my interests, wine. It’s … Continue reading
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An outing to a place not often on the LJC jazz itinerary,” free jazz/  high energy genre”, and nominations for The Ten Best Covers of a Jazz Record. (UPDATE: see reader nominations at end of post) Selection: Sorry ’bout that … Continue reading
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Further Adventures in Lo-Fi In a modest living room somewhere in deepest South East  London, something rather remarkable began to happen. Acoustic space between hi fi speakers, previously populated with the ghostly shadows of jazz musicians long since passed began slowly transforming into … Continue reading
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I can read your mind. You want to vote in the new Sun Ra Poll LJC has added at the foot of this post. I willed him to do it. You can vote for ten of my albums. Choose wisely, … Continue reading
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Impulse Part IV The end of monaural format The years between 1966 and 1968 saw the ending of the mono ( “monaural”) format for home listening of Impulse, ushering in the brave new world of stereo once and for all. The orange/black label ABC … Continue reading
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For Record Collectors Only! More Impulse! Part three (1996-1970) of on-going research into the Impulse catalogue on vinyl, aiming to identify original pressings on the iconic Impulse! label (Labels updated as new information comes in) Overview By 1966, the changing … Continue reading
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IMPULSE STEREO: “ORIGINAL!” Record Collector perspective: is it an “original”? That word! I favour equal knowledge available to both buyers and sellers, so both can get a fair price for the goods on offer, which must of course be properly described. Why … Continue reading
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  (Last Updated November 14, 2014) Impulse Labelology: The First 100 – mono For Record Collectors Only! LondonJazzCollector previously posted a reference set of Impulse labels 1965-73 from A-100 onwards, to capture the evolution of the Impulse label from mid ’60s post-bop through to … Continue reading
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Selection 1: Man from South Africa  Booker Little (trumpet) Julian Priester (trombone) Eric Dolphy (alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet) Clifford Jordan (tenor saxophone) Mal Waldron (piano) Art Davis (bass) Max Roach (drums) Carlos “Patato” Valdes (congas) Carlos ‘Totico’ Eugenio … Continue reading
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Selection 1: Nile Valley Blues Selection 2: Blind Willie Artists Yusef Lateef (tenor, alto saxophone, flute, oboe, chuen, theremin) Hugh Lawson (piano) Reggie Workman (bass) Roy Brooks (drums) recorded NYC, March 8 & 9, 1966 Music Lateef led six … Continue reading
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