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Loading ...Recently we got a package from Porter Records, in which we have found four CDs with magnificient music. Soon it will be added to our playlist.
Old Dog – “By Any Other Name”
FEATURING LOUIE BELOGENIS ON TENOR SAX, KARL BERGER ON VIBES & PIANO, MICHAEL BISIO ON BASS AND WARREN SMITH ON DRUMS. OLD DOG? I AM NOT SO SURE ABOUT THAT SINCE ONLY TWO OF THE MEMBERS OF THIS QUARTET ARE OLDER MEMBERS OF THE AVANT JAZZ SCENE ONCE AND STILL BASED IN NEW YORK. PERCUSSIONIST WARREN SMITH HAS BEEN PLAYING LIVE AND RECORDING ON HUNDREDS OF SESSIONS SINCE THE MID-SIXTIES, FROM JAZZ, CLASSICAL, FOLK, ROCK AND MORE. KARL BERGER IS LEGENDARY MUSICIAN, COMPOSER, COLLABORATOR, TEACHER AND FOUNDER OF THE CREATIVE MUSIC SCHOOL IN THE WOODSTOCK AREA IN THE SEVENTIES. ALTHOUGH A GENERATION OR SO YOUNGER, LOUIE BELOGENIS, HAS BEEN PLAYING POWERFUL TENOR SAX WITH RASHIED ALI, JOHN ZORN, BORAH BERGMAN AND LEADING A NUMBER OF FINE BANDS OF HIS OWN. FORMERLY OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, MICHAEL BISIO HAS BECOME ONE OF THE BISI-EST BASSISTS SINCE MOVING HERE A FEW YEARS BACK. HE CERTAINLY IS A LEADER OF THIS GREAT QUARTET SINCE HE WROTE FIVE OF THEIR NINE PIECES.
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The Nu Band – “LOWER EAST SIDE BLUES”
ROY CAMPBELL JR. – TRUMPET POCKET TRUMPET, FLUGELHORN
MARK WHITECAGE – ALTO SAX, CLARINET
JOE FONDA – BASSLOU GRASSI – DRUMS, PERCUSSION
ONE OF THE BEST FREE BOP BANDS OF THE MOMENT IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE NU BAND, WITH FOUR SEASONED MUSICIANS WHO ARE AS COMFORTABLE IN THE MOST COMPLEX JAZZ TRADITIONS AS IN THE ADVENTUROUS SONIC EXPLORATIONS OF NOWADAYS, MIXING THEM WITH RHYTHM, SOUL, SPIRITUALITY, A DEEP-FELT SYMPATHY FOR HUMANITY, A STRONG DOSE OF POLITICAL CRITICISM, JOINED WITH HUMOR AND SELF-RELATIVATION. THE NU BAND IS MARK WHITECAGE ON SAX AND CLARINET, ROY CAMPBELL ON TRUMPET, JOE FONDA ON BASS AND LOU GRASSI ON DRUMS.
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Odean Pope – “PLANT LIFE”
A STRONG TRIO DATE FROM ODEAN POPE — ONE THAT MIXES HIS TENOR WITH THE BASS OF LEE SMITH AND DRUMS OF SUNNY MURRAY — ALMOST IN A STYLE THAT HEARKENS BACK TO 60S WORK ON ESP, BUT WITH A MELLOWER SOUND OVERALL! THE ALBUM’S WARMLY MELODIC AT POINTS, BUT STILL SOMEWHAT UNSTRUCTURED — USUALLY ALLOWING PLENTY OF LONG LINES FROM POPE’S TENOR, AND KEEPING MURRAY’S PERCUSSION TO A MINIMUM — OFTEN LETTING THE SAX AND BASS SPIN OUT IN THEIR OWN DANCE OF RHYTHM, WHICH REALLY OFFERS A GREAT SHOWCASE FOR ODEAN’S CREATIVE ENERGY. TITLES INCLUDE “TWO DREAMS (PARTS 1 & 2)”, “HAPPINESS TEARS”, “PLANT LIFE”, “SCORPIO TWINS”, “MULTIPHONIC”, AND “THOUGHTS”.
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Khan Jamal – “COOL”
A REFRESHINGLY UNIQUE RECORDING IN THE JAZZ IDIOM THAT INCLUDES KHAN JAMAL: VIBES, JOHN RODGERS: CELLO, DWIGHT JAMES: DRUMS AND WARREN ORE: BASS. THE PRESENCE OF THE CELLO MAKES FOR A VERY MEMORABLE RECORDING AS IT BRINGS A STRONG SENSE OF RHYTHM TO THESE POWERFUL COMPOSITIONS. KHAN HAS BEEN A LONG CENTRAL PART OF THE PHILADELPHIA JAZZ SCENE AND HAS PLAY WITH SUCH GREATS AS ODEAN POPE, SUNNY MURRAY AND BYARD LANCASTER.
