Duke Pearson "Sweet Honey Bee"

And Another One !
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Duke Pearson "Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band"

Another One !
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Duke Pearson "How Insensitive"

Everybody seems to love Duke Pearson here... me too ! so here it is !
Enjoy

Lee Morgan "Search For The New Land"

Fantastic line-up, featuring H. Hancock, Wayne Sorter, Grant Green etc...
Enjoy !

Grant Green "The Latin Bit"

One of my favourites Grant Green LP !
Enjoy !

The 3 Sounds "Hey There !"

I love the 3 sounds ! a really cool jazz trio featuring gene harris.
some really simple and nice jazz...
enjoy !

Donald Byrd "Free Form"

I really love this one...
"french spice" intro is a killer hip hop loop.
"free form" sounds to me like a perfect jungle-jazz track
enjoy !

Duke Pearson "Wahoo!"

I"m back ! and i'll post a few blue note gems,
starting with this nice duke pearson...

Herbie Hancock Sextet "Live At Detroit 10-08-72"

Incredible !!!!!!!!!!
found this on a brand new blog : http://kinebeeszounds.blogspot.com/
this is herbie hancock's sextet playing live. and it's really good !!!!
thanks man !

Lonnie Smith "Turning Point"

A stone killer from organist Lonnie Smith -- one of his completely cooking early albums for Blue Note, and a hard-burner all the way through! Smith's working here with a really great group that includes Idris Muhammad on drums and Melvin Sparks on guitar -- both of whom give the album a really heavy bottom, and almost make the set feel like one of those classic Prestige jammers from the same time. But added to them is a great horn section of Lee Morgan on trumpet, Julian Preister on trombone, and Bennie Maupin on tenor -- all of whom give the record a slightly hipper, more modern feel -- in keeping with the Blue Note groove of the time. Tracks are all nice and long -- and titles include the originals "Turning Point" and "Slow High" -- plus versions of "See Saw", "People Sure Act Funny", and "Eleanor Rigby".

Lonnie Smith "Think !"

Easily Lonnie Smith's biggest hit for Blue Note -- a key record in defining the sound of late 60s soul jazz! Lonnie's working here with an all-star group that includes Melvin Sparks, Lee Morgan, and David Fathead Newman -- and the core combo is expanded by some additional Latin percussion (including work by Pucho on timbales!), which really makes the tunes groove nicely! Tracks are long, with complicated rhythms -- and soulful yet sophisticated solos to match -- and titles include the seminal "Son Of Ice Bag", a great cover of "Think", and the tracks "Slouchin", "Call Of The Wild", and "Three Blind Mice".

John Murthaug "Blues Current"

excellent moogish Lp featuring Herbie... on piano !
only 128 kbps... if someone has a better rip...

Eddie Henderson "Heritage"

Continuing to evolve, with eyes and ears fixed on the very different paths that Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock were blazing in those days, Dr. Eddie Henderson, musician and psychiatrist, retreats a bit further from the cutting edge here. The rhythms gets tighter and funkier due to the presence of two of the Headhunters -- bassist Paul Jackson and drummer Mike Clarke -- and one of Davis' boys, percussionist Mtume. The structures of the tunes are more pronounced, Henderson's trumpet work resembles that of Davis more than ever, and Hadley Caliman invokes the absent Bennie Maupin on bass clarinet. With the notable exception of her Hancock-like solo on "Dr. Mganga," Patrice Rushen's keyboard textures are more sweeping, layered and less inventive than those on previous Henderson outings, without the pointillistic fireworks and pink noise of the early '70s. There is enough of the old experimental Eddie Henderson here to keep his wild-eyed electric music fans interested, but he was clearly being pulled slowly and inexorably into a more commercially-minded orbit, possibly in a doomed attempt to remake him into another Donald Byrd-like cash cow. AMG

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Eddie Henderson "Sunburst"

The group includes work by Harvey Mason, George Duke, Julian Priester, Alphonso Johnson, and Bennie Maupin -- and the great Skip Drinkwater is at the production chair, cutting the grooves here with a lot more fire than in some of his later work! The whole thing's great -- and titles include "Involuntary Bliss", "Galaxy", "Kumquat Kids".

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Eddie Henderson "Inside Out"

From the great blog "Orgy in Rhythm" ;)

Eddie Henderson for Capricorn Records from 1974
If you enjoyed Julian Priester's "Love Love" then this should float your space boat.Here's a write up from Perfect Sound Forever - Hancock's Headhunters and Hendersons:
Hancock remained to the close of Henderson's Inside Out (1974), as did most of the crew, with Buster Williams taking up the bass and Bill Summers in on congas. The cover reversed the theme from universal to earthly, trading a snap of a nebula for a stratosphere-high photo of an arid section of Earth, retaining the theme of distance at least. In many ways, the music followed suit, Maupin's favoring of the stritch, a mid-East horn with a shrill upper register, arabesqued the gig even more profoundly than the last outing. This time, there were three short songs, four long ones. Williams bass is extremely muscular, at times John Wetton-ish (a la King Crimson's Lark's Tongue), throughout the album, lead-guitar-ish in the funky title groove, weighting it supernaturally into the Earth's crust. Henderson skips and skitters far above, imbued with terrene energies but determined to paint the skies in fascinating hues. Maupin book-ends him, alternating 'twixt reeds, winds, and horns, wailing out some of the best licks of his illustrious career.

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Herbie Hancock "Live At Tokyo 09 28 78"

Butterfly
Chameleon
I Thought it Was You
Shifless Shuffle
Sunlight

Another Bootleg recorded during the "Sunlight" Tour
pretty cool !

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Bennie Maupin "Slow Traffic To The Right"

Thanks to Orgy in Rhythm for this great post !!!

Bennie Maupin takes comparatively contemporary looks at his pair of contributions to Herbie Hancock's Crossings and is joined by two fellow and key vets of that session: Eddie Henderson and Dr. Pat Gleeson. (Also on board: Patrice Rushen, Blackbird McKnight, Ralph Armstrong.) A barely recognizable "Water Torture" is tightened from 14 to five minutes, anchored by a pliant rhythm. "Quasar," the finale, isn't as drastically overhauled but is made to sound more like a theme. Much of this is due to the change in Gleeson's role. On Crossings, his synthesizer interjections are delivered as effect-like enhancements; here, his machines hurl a vein-melting crescendo of synthesized strings that double with actual strings. Like Maupin's other two '70s albums, Jewel in the Lotus (ECM) and Moondreams (Mercury), Slow Traffic to the Right has never been released on CD

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Patrice Rushen "Shout It Out"

Thanks to My Jazz World for this !!!

released in 1977 on Prestige Records and inexplicably never came out on CD. The other players are Al McKay, Charles Meeks, James Gadson and Bill Summers creating an almost Headhunters-like groove.
"The Hump" is the hit !

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Patrice Rushen "Prelusion"

This was ripped by the great bacoso @ orgy in rhythm !!!

Patrice Rushen for Prestige from 1974.
A fantastic bit of hard fusion from Patrice before she started warbling and going for the commercial market featuring Joe Henderson on Tenor-Highly Recommended.
Barely out of her teens - keyboardist Patrice Rushen started a trio of great albums for Prestige: Prelusion, Before the Dawn and Shout It Out in 1974 with guest Joe Henderson on tenor sax. Whilst the majority of side two veers into hard Headhunters style jazz/funk its the whole of side one that captures the attention. Both tracks are written by Rushen who plays acoustic and electric pianos as well as clavinet and ARP synthesisers. Both arrangements are lengthy, almost movie soundtrack in feel with excellent horn arrangements.
And here's Dusty Groove's review:
A great set from Patrice Rushen -- very different than her later R&B work from the 80s! The record's her first, and at the time, Patrice was much more of a jazz artist -- working here with a cool west coast set of players (Joe Henderson on tenor, Hadley Caliman on alto and soprano, and Oscar Brashear on trumpet), playing a range of keyboards, from acoustic and electric piano, to ARP, and clavinet. The tracks are long, and have a wonderfully composed soul jazz vibe -- feeling a heck of a lot like work on labels like Strata East, deeply dipping into a soulful bag that's solid and real, with no fakery or tricks to make the mood happen.

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Patrice Rushen-Bill Evans-John Lewis-Marian McPartland "Monterey Jazz Festival '75"

isn't she cute ?

Patrice Rushen "Before the Dawn"

Found this @my favorite sounds, wonderfull blog !

http://myfavvouritesound.blogspot.com/

LP (Item 57605) Prestige, 1975

Patrice Rushen's second album and a very sweet batch of keyboard funk! The record has Patrice working in a groove that's almost like that of Herbie Hancock at the time -- using lots of electric piano, clavinet, and synth to craft some mighty fine jazz funk grooves. The group's a monster assemblage of Fantasy jazz players like Hubert Laws, Lee Ritenour, Hadley Caliman, and Harvey Mason -- and the session crackles with a tight edge that you'll never find in any of Patrice's later work. Tracks are long, with lots of great spacey grooves, and titles include "Razzia", "Before The Dawn", "Kickin Back", and "Jubilation"

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Wah Wah Watson "Elementary"

Found this @ Oufar Khan's wonderfull blog !
http://oufarkhan.blogspot.com/
a nice version of "Bubbles" wich is also on herbie's "Manchild" .
including Bennie Maupin, Herbie Hancock, Dave Grusin...

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Norman Connors "Saturday Night Special"

You can find this at My Jazz World
http://myjazzworld.blogspot.com/
one of the greatest blog around !

featuring: Herbie Hancock, Gary Bartz, Eddie Henderson, Carlos Garnett, Reggie Lucas, Michael Henderson, Buster Williams, Ken Nash, Bill Summers...

Herbie Hancock "Live At Omaha"

Another Live Bootleg


Herbie Hancock and Headhunters
Music Hall
Omaha, NB
11/17/75
Herbie: Keys
Paul Jackson: bass
Mike Clark: Drums
Blackbyrd Mcknight: guitar
Bill Summers: percussion
Bennie Maupin: Reeds & Lyricon

tracklist

1/ Hang Up Your Hangs Up
2/ Percussion Solo
3/ Steppin' In It
4/ Talk
5/ Watermelon Man
6/ Bubbles

Enjoy !

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Eddie Henderson "Mahal"

A1 Butterfly (8:05)
A2 Cyclops (5:18)
A3 Emotions (4:59)
B1 Prance On (5:16)
B2 Amoroso (5:38)
B3 Mahal (4:27)
B4 Ecstasy (3:25)

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Eddie Henderson "Comin' Through"

I love Eddie Henderson's stuff...
I had the opportunity to interview him, he explained me how the record company encouraged him to work with people like paul jackson, patrice rushen etc...
herbie's headhunters was a historic sale for a jazz record, everybody wanted to make it happen again...
anyway this is a great LP , much more headhunters oriented than the previous one.
"Open Eyes" sounds like a patrice rushen tune.

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Bennie Maupin "Moonscapes"

Thanks to Orgy in Rhythm for this post
you can visit his wonderful blog at: http://orgyinrhythm.blogspot.com/

Herbie Hancock "Demo Rhodes"

This is a commercial records, herbie plays and appraises the rhodes.
the sound is a little crappy, but it's interesting...

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George Shearing

George Shearing "The Way We Are"

A very nice LP, released in 1975 for MPS.
a perfect sound, a perfect timing, some nice covers like "killing me softly"
you should get it

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Harvey Mason "Marchin In The Street"

Easily the greatest album ever by funky drummer Harvey Mason -- and quite possibly the only one to live up to the rhythmic complexity that Mason brought to countless other fusion sessions for other groups in the 70s! The tracks are all spacious and snapping with brilliantly funky touches -- a sound that resonates with Mason's contributions to Johnny Hammond's Gears album, but which comes off slightly differently here, thanks to a stronger focus on the drums. Keyboards are still a prime element of the set -- played here by Herbie Hancock, Dave Grusin, and Jerry Peters -- the latter 2 of whom helped out on arrangements for the record -- and other players include an all-star lineup of 70s jazz funk legends such as Blue Mitchell, Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson, Hubert Laws, and others. The title cut "Marching In The Street" is a bucketful of breaks -- but all tracks are great too, and titles include "Modaji", "Wild Rice", "Fair Thee Well", "Building Love", "Ballad For Heather", and "Hop Scotch".

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Herbie and Quincy

Herbie Hancock "Dedication"

1		Maiden Voyage (7:44)
2		Dolphin Dance (11:18)
3		Nobu (7:39)
4		Cantaloupe Island (13:58)

This was recorded at Koseinekin Hall, Tokyo, July 29, 1974.
Herbie plays the keyboards alone. Solo piano on the track 1 and 2,
Rhodes, ARP synths on track 3 and 4. these are my favorite tracks.
"Nobu" prefigure what will be known as electro-jazz. 130 bpm, a synthethic rythm (probably made using the ARP modular), and a mind-blowing rhodes !
"Cantaloupe Island" is perfect for chilling out. ARP String Ensemble and tape-delayed rhodes will melt you at the end of the track.

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Herbie Hancock "Live at the Ivanhoe Theater"

Herbie Hancock (Keyboard)
Jaco Pasorius (Bass)
Bennie Maupin (Saxophone)
James Levi (Drums)

Recorded Live at the Ivanhoe Theater in Chicago on February 16, 1977

Chameleon Hang Up Your Hangs Up It Remains To Be Seen Maiden Voyage People Music

I wonder where was paul ?
clapman says that the third guy on the picure is coke escovedo...

this is a bootleg with a pretty nice sound

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Norman Connors "Love Fron The Sun"

This album by drummer Norman Connors was released in 1973 on Buddah Records, it was produced by Skip Drinkwater and features a killer line-up consisting of Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, Eddie Henderson, Gary Bartz, Buster Williams, Carlos Garnett and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

This was posted by http://myjazzworld.blogspot.com
thanks to him for his great work !!!

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Julian Prester "Love, Love"

This is a pure "sextet" style LP.

Personnel:
Julian Priester: trombones, baritone horn, post horn, whistle flute, cowbell, small percussion, ARP 2600 synthesizer, Proto-type ARP string synthesizer
Pat Gleeson: ARP 2600 synthesizer, ARP Odyssey synthesizer, Moog III, Oberheim digital sequencer
Hadley Caliman: flute, saxophones, bass clarinet
Bayete Umbra Zindinko: fender rhodes, piano, clavinet D-6
Nyimbo Henry Franklin: fender bass, acoustic bass on all except “Love, Love”
Ndugu Leon Chancler: drums on all except “Love, Love”
Mguanda David Johnson: flute, soprano saxophone on all except “Love, Love”
Kamau Eric Gravatt: drums, congas on “Love, Love”
Ron McClure: fender bass on “Love, Love”
Bill Connors: electric guitar on “Love, Love.”

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Charles Earland "Leaving This Planet"

Wonderful LP !

Incredible line-up !

Harvey Mason
Freddie Hubbard
Joe Henderson
Charles Earland
Eddie Henderson
Patrick Gleason
etc...

this was recorded in 1973. "Mason's Galaxy" reminds me "Vein Melter" (Headhunters) wich was recorded the same year.

Enjoy

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Freddie Hubbard / Stanley Turrentine "In Concert"

This is the CD version featuring Vol1+Vol2

Gibraltar 19:05
Interlude 1:18
Povo 19:14
Gibraltar (Detroit Version) 21:06
Hornets (Chicago Version) 9:43

some really nice sounds by herbie, intense use of whawha, fuzz and echoplex.
herbie is in between "sextant" and "headhunters"...

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Enjoy !

Freddie Hubbard "Straight Life"

Al Tootie Heath "Kawaida"

A super-hip batch of soul jazz tracks by Albert Toodie Heath of the Heath Brothers -- working here on a rare session as a leader, with a sound that's right up there with the Heath Brothers' early work for Strata East!! The lineup is incredible -- as Heath is joined by players that include Don Cherry, Buster Williams, Mtume, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Heath, and Ed Blackwell -- all coming together for a session that's nearly lost to the history books, but which is one of the strongest spiritual jazz sessions of the late 60s! Herbie plays all acoustic piano throughout, and the tracks are long, leaping, and loping -- with stretched-out spiritual solos from Jimmy Heath and Don Cherry -- and a proud and righteous sound that's extremely free-spirited without going too far out! Titles include "Baraka", "Maulana", "Dunia", and "Kamili".

Jackie McLean "Destination Out"

Eddie Henderson "Realization"

Just why this album was released on Capricorn Records is hard to understand. The label was set up with the Allman Brothers in mind and also featured Sea Level, Allman keyboardist Chuck Levell's band. This release just is not in the mould and explains why it didn't get much response when at the time.

But it follows a line of ground breaking albums from Herbie Hancock and his then fusion/electronic band. In a trio of albums, Sextant, Crossings and Mwandishi Hancock explored virgin territory with an electronics expert at its core. The whole new direction would not have been possible without Hancock's vision and Dr. Patrick Gleeson's noises. In addition to the Hancock canon, this rich vein of invention produced 2 gems from Henderson and a criminally overlooked masterpiece from Julian Preister, "Love Love". This has recently been re-released on ECM and is an essential purchase.

This is the first of the Henderson albums. A brilliant trumpeter, he only played music as an aside, as he is in fact Dr Henderson, M.D.. Indeed, after a few more albums he returned to doctoring for some years.

The band is a cracker. Hancock on a bank of keyboards, Lenny White & Billy Hart on drums, Buster Williams on bass and Bennie Maupin on wind instruments. Over a big groove, Hancock, Henderson and Maupin solo with the added feature of Gleeson's electronic colours. This is far out and spacey. So much so that this and the other albums referred to have become a source of samples for many a DJ.

Thanks to prognotfrog.blogspot.com for this few words.

Lonnie Smith "Live At Club Mozambique"

A lost jazz-funk gem -- originally recorded at Club Mozambique in Detroit in 1970, but not issued by Blue Note until the mid 90s! The set's right up there with Lonnie's classic Move Your Hand live set -- as the tracks are long, free, and very funky, performed by a hip group that includes Joe Dukes on drums, Dave Hubbard on tenor, Ronnie Cuber on baritone, and George Benson on guitar. Lonnie's organ is harder than you'll ever hear it in later years -- and tracks include "Scream", "Expressions", "I Can't Stand It", "Peace Of Mind", "Love Bowl", and "Play It Back".
Thanks to Dusty Groove.

Buster Williams "Pinnacle"

A totally excellent Buster Williams album from the mid 70's, and one of the best (and hardest to find) albums on Muse! The bassist has always been one of our favorite talents -- and this little gem is one of the few albums he's cut on his own, a majestic bit of soul jazz and funk, recorded with a very hip lineup! Includes the great slow funk track "The Hump", which has a tight sample-heavy bass and electronics intro, plus lots of other nice ones like "Tayamisha", "Batuki", and "Noble Ego". Sonny Fortune, Woody Shaw, and Billy Hart are all in the group -- and with players like that, how can you miss?
Dusty Groove

Duke Pearson "The Phantom"

Hello !

I'm beginning this blog, because i've been downloading so much on different blogs like "orgy in rythm", "el reza", "my jazz world", pharaohsdance", "loronix" etc...
time for me now to share :)