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Which is no surprise given that a lot of the same players are on it, including trumpeter\/flugelhornist Oscar Brashear, tenor\/soprano saxophonist Charles Owens, and pianist Bill Henderson (here billed as Kemang Sunduza). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut The Skipper at Home also boasts ace talents like keyboardist Kirk Lightsey (memorably featured on the Roland Haynes Black Jazz release 2nd Wave), trombonist Al Hall, Jr. (who appeared on Black Jazz releases from Doug Carn, Chester Thompson, and Calvin Keys), and drummer Leon “Ndugu” Chancler, who’s played with everyone from Miles Davis to Joe Henderson. The result is an album that, like The Skipper, is rooted in bop but one that nods to some of the currents that were swirling in jazz at the time; it’s a little freer, a little more electric. 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What we said in 2016: \"Slight Freedom, Jeff Parker's first ever solo record, presents the first opportunity to hear the guitarist in fully self-revealed circumstances. recorded 2013 \u0026amp; '14 in the Hollywood Hills as he relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles, Parker combines the dark tonal palette \u0026amp; percussive attack he's long been known for with real-time processing elements \u0026amp; field recordings, deftly crafting a unique world of solo guitar music -- multilingual, mysterious, alive with extraordinary sonic events, with a sturdy intelligence in charge \u0026amp; a raw homestyle vibe. parker's title composition sets the album's cavernous mood. terse lines \u0026amp; ricocheting loops morph into a gnarly ambient section that resembles Neil Young droning out over a vg+ copy of discreet music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParker creates a different sort of ambient space in his take on Frank Ocean's 'Super Rich Kids', bending the melody around a bossa nova rhythm into a moodsville tone poem. parker makes an extraordinary long-form statement out of Chad Taylor's 'Mainz', a piece he first recorded with Taylor \u0026amp; Chris Lopes on the album Bright Light In Winter. Twice the length of the trio recording, the multi-layered soliloquy finds parker leaping from the high rung to damn near orchestral heights, pushing his techniques \u0026amp; concepts to the breaking points. It's one of the great solo performances you'll hear from a musician this year. To say 'Lush Life' comes with formidable baggage is an understatement. Parker achieves instant classic status with a rendition that sounds beamed-in from a decommissioned satellite -- burned out, covered in space grit, yet still formally nuanced \u0026amp; beautifully reflective of Strayhorn's world-weary lyrics. twenty years into the game it's a joy for eremite to present work by an artist who's clearly taking his music to the next level.\" \"It's not jazz, it's not ambient, it's not noise; it's something more idiosyncratic and more personal, something only Parker could have come up with. 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Recorded live at ETA (referencing David Foster Wallace), a bar in LA's Highland Park neighborhood with just enough space in the back for Parker, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, \u0026amp; alto saxophonist Josh Johnson to convene in extraordinarily depthful \u0026amp; exploratory music making. Gleaned for the stoniest side-length cuts from 10+ hours of vivid two-track recordings made between 2019 \u0026amp; 2021 by Bryce Gonzales, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy is a darkly glowing séance of an album, brimming over with the hypnotic, the melodic, \u0026amp; patience \u0026amp; grace in its own beautiful strangeness. Room-tone, electric fields, environment, ceiling echo, live recording, Mondays, Los Angeles. Jeff Parker's first double album \u0026amp; first live album, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy belongs in the lineage of such canonical live double albums recorded on the West Coast as Lee Morgan's Live at the Lighthouse, Miles Davis' In Person Friday \u0026amp; Saturday Night at the Blackhawk, San Francisco \u0026amp; Black Beauty, \u0026amp; John Coltrane's Live in Seattle. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the IVtet sometimes plays standards \u0026amp;, including on this recording, original compositions, it is as previously stated largely a free improv group -- just not in the genre meaning of the term. The music is more free composition than free improvisation, more blending than discordant. It's tensile, yet spacious \u0026amp; relaxed. Clearly all four musicians have spent significant time in the planetary system known as jazz, but relationships to other musics, across many scenes \u0026amp; eras -- dub \u0026amp; Dilla, primary source psychedelia, ambient \u0026amp; drone -- suffuse the proceedings. Listening to playbacks Parker remarked, humorously \u0026amp; not, 'we sound like the Byrds' (to certain ears, the Clarence White-era Byrds, who really stretched it). A fundamental of all great ensembles, whether basketball teams or bands, is the ability of each member to move fluidly \u0026amp; fluently in \u0026amp; out of lead \u0026amp; supportive roles. Building on the communicative pathways they've established in Parker's -- The New Breed -- project, Parker \u0026amp; Johnson maintain a constant dialogue of lead \u0026amp; support. Their sampled \u0026amp; looped phrases move continuously thru the music, layered \u0026amp; alive, adding depth \u0026amp; texture \u0026amp; pattern, evoking birds in formation, sea creatures drifting below the photic zone. Or, the two musicians simulate those processes by entwining their terse, clear-lined playing in real-time. The stop\/start flow of Bellerose, too, simulates the sampler, recalling drum parts in Parker's beat-driven projects. Mostly Bellerose's animated phraseologies deliver the inimitable instantaneous feel of live creative drumming. The range of tonal colors he conjures from his extremely vintage battery of drums \u0026amp; shakers -- as distinctive a sonic signature as we have in contemporary acoustic drumming -- bring almost folkloric qualities to the aesthetic currency of the IVtet's language. A wonderful revelation in this band is the playing of Anna Butterss. The strength, judiciousness \u0026amp; humility with which she navigates the bass position both ground \u0026amp; lift upward the egalitarian group sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the IVtet's grooves flow \u0026amp; clip, loop \u0026amp; repeat, the ensemble elements reconfigure, a terrarium of musical cultivation growing under controlled variables, a tight experiment of harmony \u0026amp; intuition, deep focus \u0026amp; freedom. For all its varied sonic personality, Mondays at The Enfield Tennis Academy scans immediately \u0026amp; unmistakably as music coming from Jeff Parker's unique sound world. Generous in spirit, trenchant \u0026amp; disciplined in execution, Parker's music has an earned respect for itself \u0026amp; for its place in history that transmutes through the musical event into the listener. 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Featuring Buster Williams (b), Ndugu (ds), Bill Henderson (keys), and Oscar Breashear (tp), the album was recorded at a crucial time when Land was shifting to a more spiritual sound. The session is a superb mix of funk and modal jazz and features monster grooves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarold Land was born in Houston in 1928 and grew up in San Diego, California. in 1954, he joined the Max Roach\/Clifford Brown Quintet recording one of the most important albums in the development of hard Bop, which was produced by Bob Shad, then the head of the Emarcy jazz label. Land quickly moved to Los Angeles and became a key saxophone player on the West Coast scene, recording as a leader for Contemporary and Pacific Jazz Records in the sixties. In 1968, he started a fruitful collaboration with vibe player Bobby Hutcherson forming the Harold Land\/Bobby Hutcherson Quintet that would last until 1971. 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Released in 1965, the album features Coltrane's quartet at the height of their creative powers, and is a testament to the saxophonist's spiritual and musical vision. The album is divided into four parts, each representing a different aspect of Coltrane's personal journey towards spiritual enlightenment. The opening track, \"Acknowledgement,\" is a meditative piece that features Coltrane's iconic \"A Love Supreme\" chant. This is followed by \"Resolution,\" a high-energy piece that showcases Coltrane's virtuosic saxophone playing. The third track, \"Pursuance,\" is a dynamic, fast-paced tune with intricate solos by each member of the quartet. The album concludes with \"Psalm,\" a reflective, hymn-like piece that features Coltrane's saxophone playing in a more subdued, spiritual mode. Throughout the album, Coltrane's playing is characterized by his signature \"sheets of sound\" technique, in which he plays rapid, complex runs of notes that seem to cascade and flow endlessly. The quartet's interplay is also exceptional, with each member contributing to the album's overall sense of improvisational freedom and musical unity. Trane's classic quartet of Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Garrison together created one of the most thought-provoking albums of their relationship. Lyrically, the album explores themes of spirituality, redemption, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world. The music is delivered with an intensity and sincerity that is palpable, making it a deeply moving and powerful listening experience. Overall, A Love Supreme is a landmark album that showcases Coltrane's unparalleled musicianship and profound spiritual insight. 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Performed by a Miles Davis-fronted European band for a movie by Louis Malle (translation: \"The Lift to the Scaffold\"). This reissue LP, originally recorded on December 4-5, 1957, has an elegant, romantic air to it. In the company of such French jazzmen as Pierre Michelot and tenor saxophonist Barney Wilen, this soundtrack is something of a throwback to the feel of Miles' early '50s Blue Note recordings with drummer Kenny Clarke. 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Reissued in 2014 by Sam Records under licence from Universal Music Classics \u0026amp; Jazz France, a label of Universal Music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn its first French appearance, in July ‘58 at the Cannes Festival — the first and only Cannes jazz festival — the Donald Byrd Quintet had brought the house down. Yet four of its five members were relatively unknown in France ... The French knew that the leader had replaced Kenny Dorham in the Jazz Messengers, that Doug Watkins was the Messengers' bassist, and that pianist Walter Davis Jr. was still only 18 when he'd played with Charlie Parker. As for Art Taylor, even if his name meant something to fans, it was still difficult for people to have a more precise idea of his musical qualities. Only Bobby Jaspar was well-known to Paris audiences, and the tour marked the return of the prodigal son, the musician who'd decided, after setting the Club St. Germain on fire, to try his luck in the States early in 1956 — J.J. Johnson had hired him, and then Miles Davis (for a short spell) before Donald Byrd brought him into the group he was taking to Europe. This new tour would climax at the Olympia theatre during one of the \"Jazz Wednesdays\" that were organized there, ever since the \"Jazz At Carnegie Hall\" tour — Zoot Sims, JJ. Johnson, Lee Konitz, Phineas Newborn — had inaugurated the series a little earlier. Byrd and his band took pains not to disappoint a Paris audience they knew to be particularly fickle, and they astutely varied the public's pleasures throughout the evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe complicity that united the rhythm section — Walter Davis Jr., Doug Watkins and Art Taylor — was much in evidence on \"Ray's Idea\"; mistrusting the traps of the spectacular at all costs, Donald Byrd, producing brilliant inventions on the trumpet, took the lion's share of the honours on a theme that was then much in fashion, \"Dear Old Stockholm,\" adapted from a Swedish traditional song; on \"Flute Blues,\" Bobby Jaspar proved he was still a specialist on that instrument, and \"Paul's Pal\" showed that, on tenor, the playing of Sonny Rollins hadn't gone unnoticed. It must be said that it didn't have much effect on the discreet lyricism underlying the choruses he played during his \"St. Germain\" period. The Olympia spectators weren't sparing in their applause for the five musicians. How else could they have reacted, faced with the fire the band showed during a tune like \"The Blues Walk\"? It wouldn't take much for us to applaud, too, even if it is 56 years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecording: October 1958 in Olympia Hall, Paris\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Finer Sounds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51857341284668,"sku":"FSLP-342","price":39.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/5320\/0444\/files\/SR101_0804c00d-b490-47e2-968f-9cda475cdbce.jpg?v=1752438486"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/5320\/0444\/collections\/Finer_Sounds_Script.png?v=1751057872","url":"https:\/\/finersounds.com\/collections\/jazz-blues-vinyl.oembed?page=9","provider":"Finer Sounds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}