Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Feb. 10

Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Feb. 10

Music History Events: Jazz albums recorded Feb. 10:

Art Blakey – Free For All (1964)

Free for All is an Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, recorded in February 1964 and released on Blue Note Records in July 1965. It was originally titled Free Fall.

The Allmusic review by Al Campbell awards the album 4 stars and states, “This edition of the Jazz Messengers had been together since 1961 with a lineup that would be hard to beat: Freddie Hubbard on trumpet… Wayne Shorter on tenor sax, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Cedar Walton on piano, and Reggie Workman on bass. Shorter’s title track is one of the finest moments in the Jazz Messengers’ history.”

Track listing: 00:00 – 01. “Free for All” 11:09 – 02. “Hammer Head” 19:00 – 03. “The Core” 28:25 – 04. “Pensativa”

Personnel:

Art Blakey – drums

Freddie Hubbard – trumpet

Curtis Fuller – trombone

Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone

Cedar Walton – piano

Reggie Workman – bass

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Joe Chambers – The Almoravid (1971)

The Almoravid is the debut album led by drummer Joe Chambers recorded in 1971 and 1973 and released on the Muse label.

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Chambers except as indicated

"The Almoravid" - 7:53
"Early Minor" (Joe Zawinul) - 6:50
"Gazelle Suite" - 3:37
"Catta" (Andrew Hill) - 4:51
"Medina" - 8:24
"Jihad" - 6:17

Recorded February 10, 1971 (#2, 5); October 8, 1973 (#1, 4); November 1, 1973 (#3, 6).
Personnel

Joe Chambers - drums
Woody Shaw - trumpet (tracks 2 & 5)
Garnett Brown - trombone (tracks 2 & 5)
Harold Vick - tenor saxophone, flute (tracks 2 & 5)
Cedar Walton - piano, electric piano (tracks 1 & 4)
George Cables - electric piano (tracks 2 & 5)
Cecil McBee - bass (tracks 2 & 5)
Walter Booker (tracks 3 & 6), Richard Davis (tracks 1 & 4), - electric bass
Omar Clay (tracks 1, 3, 4 & 6), David Friedman (tracks 1 & 4), Doug Hawthorne (tracks 3 & 6) - marimba, percussion
Ray Mantilla - congas, percussion (tracks 1, 3, 4 & 6)

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Alan Skidmore, Mike Osborne, & John Surman – S.O.S. (1975)

PERSONNEL:

Mike Osborne - alto sax, percussion
Alan Skidmore - tenor sax, drums, percussion
John Surman - baritone & soprano sax, bass clarinet

Worthing, Sussex, January 2 & 3 & February 9-11, 1975.
TRACKS:

01. Country Dance
02. Wherever I Am
03. Chordary
04. Where’s Junior ?
05. Cycle Motion
06. 1st
07. Goliath
08. Calypso

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Pat Martino – Exit (1976)

Exit is an album by guitarist Pat Martino, recorded in 1976 and released on the Muse label.

Track listing

All compositions by Pat Martino except as indicated

"Exit" - 9:23
"Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) - 7:30
"Three Base Hit" - 4:30
"Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 4:47
"Blue Bossa" (Kenny Dorham) - 4:57
"I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 7:48

Personnel

Pat Martino - guitar
Gil Goldstein - piano
Richard Davis - bass
Jabali Billy Hart - drums

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Greg Osby – Channel Three (2005)

Born and raised in St. Louis, Greg Osby (born August 3, 1960, St. Louis, Missouri, United States) began his professional musical career in 1975, after three years of private studies in clarinet, flute and alto saxophone. Hailing from a vibrant musical city, Osby showed an early interest in the performing arts and took advantage of his high school years by becoming closely involved with jazz and blues bands. In 1978, Osby continued his musical training at Howard University where he majored in Jazz Studies. He completed this journey at the Berklee School of Music from 1980 to 1983.

Saxophonist, composer, producer and educator, Greg Osby has left an indelible mark on contemporary jazz, as the leader of his own ensembles as well as a guest artist with other acclaimed jazz groups over the past 20 years. Notable for his insightful and innovative approach to composition and for his interpretation of original jazz music, Osby is a brilliant reference among today”s generation of jazz musicians. He has been awarded numerous awards and acclaimed by critics for his recordings and exciting live performances.

After settling in New York, he was quickly required as a prominent accompanist for artists as varied as Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Jack DeJohnette, Andrew Hill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Jim Hall, and Jaki Byard. He also played for numerous ethnic music groups in the New York area.

In 1985, Osby was invited to join Jack DeJohnette”s groundbreaking group, “Special Edition”. It was as a member of this line-up that he attuned to the most challenging aspects of his conception in a musical situation without limits or restrictions. To the point, as Osby himself states, of marking a decisive turning point in his development as an artist.

In 1987, Greg Osby signed his first contract with a little-known German label, JMT (Jazz Music Today). From this situation, he feels that it will finally be possible for him to document life as he perceives it through music. A realm of free creativity in which to do what you see fit. He recorded four albums with that company. Osby signed to Blue Note Records in 1990 and has since recorded fifteen titles with that label as a leader. From the sense of the street and the language of a generation, Osby has sketched numerous musical essays subject to a contemporary soundtrack, using the improvisational nature inherent in jazz as a connecting thread. On “Channel Three”, his latest work with Blue Note, Osby presents his music in trio format and is accompanied by special guests, Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums, and a newcomer to the international jazz scene, bassist Matt Brewer.

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Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell – Streaming (2005)

Streaming is an album by Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, and Roscoe Mitchell recorded in 2005 and released on the Pi Recordings label in 2006.

Prior to the session, the musicians had worked together since 1971, and had participated in the recording of albums such as Abrams’s Spihumonesty, Mitchell’s Nonaah, and Lewis’s Shadowgraph. The recording came about as a result of the success of the trio’s extended improvisation at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

Abrams described the album as “a vintage collaboration,” and commented: “the respect that transpires between us on the stage, the respect for the improvised space that we use, is special. Of course, they’re virtuoso musicians, but I’m talking about silence and activity, when to play and when not to play, just from instinct and feeling and respect.”

Track listing

"Scrape" - 10:02
"Bound" - 11:02
"Dramaturns" - 18:27
"Soundhear" - 16:36
"Streaming" - 17:34

All compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis and Roscoe Mitchell

Personnel

Muhal Richard Abrams: piano, percussion
George Lewis: trombone, laptop
Roscoe Mitchell: saxophones, percussion

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