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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