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Randy Weston – Blue Moses (Speakers Corner/CTI 6016. LP review by Andrew Cartmel)

The reissue of the vintage CTI catalogue on high quality vinyl continues to expand with another classic recording, this one from the exemplary Speakers Corner label, Ben Crosland based near the Baltic coast in Northern Germany. Blue Moses is an unusual excursion by keyboard player and composer Randy Weston. Brooklyn born, of Jamaican descent, Weston is a disciple of Ellington and Monk who made a 08 Jul particular study of African music and even relocated to Morocco for five years. On his return to the States, showed his faith in Weston by investing in LondonJazz News these 1972 large ensemble sessions, played by the cream of contemporary jazz Retweeted musicians, arranged by and recorded by . Jazzfuel @Jazzfuel Ifrane has a busy, bustling big band sound, brassy and crowded, suggesting New article out today on at Bacharach in jazz mode or perhaps seventies . The bold chopping, jazzfuel.com looking at the staccato that emerges from the pack is with Bill importance of websites in Embed View on Twitter Cobham’s buoyant, exultant drumming underpinning it. The recording is rock solid getting more jazz gigs: and the music bubbling with excitement. Ganawa (Blue Moses) is a complete jazzfuel.com/gig-ready- change of pace, small and intimate, led by Weston’s electric piano with tasty percussion, courtesy of Phil Kraus, and Azzedin Weston, rocking into an African groove — this time suggestive of Henry Mancini at his most tasteful Links We Like - UK Jazz Joanna Wallfisch and adroit (think of the film score for Hatari). Weston’s own smooth, rolling electric keyboards shape the piece with ’s weaving through the soft rapid The Jazz Mann fluttering of percussion and providing highlights. The Vortex Jazz Club, Dalston, London - programme for the week ahead. Night In Medina gives us lonely, delicate keyboards, and tentative, spooky, bebop spoken here woodwinds like the moan of a mother creature looking for a lost cub in some dark Tonight (Friday July 15) @ The forest. The playing is dense, breathy, intimate and haunting with rattling percussion, Globe Jazz Bar, Newcastle. cries (Madame Meddah is the vocalist) and the lovely, dirty insinuating tenor sax of thebluemoment.com Grover Washington. The final track Marrakesh Blues begins with Madame Drones for peace Meddah’s vocals evoking North Africa before Laws’s beautifully shaped flute and ’s weighty, graceful bass set the stage for Randy Weston, his electric The Jazz Breakfast piano poetic and wistful. Then Cobham’s taut drums change the pace to a modernist Find out what’s happening jazzwise in Birmingham strut and Weston responds, playing imperative, circular phrases. Washington’s sax Liam Noble's blog is as delicately floating and insistent as a mosquito — before it moves in for the attack. The African/American duality which is the mission statement of the is Jazz Yorkshire probably most elegantly embodied in this track. Carter is particularly featured here, Playing Stories Jazz Workshop in Manchester, July 29th with David Horowitz’s Moog and some stunning work from the crack horn section. MARLBANK Like the other pieces on the record, this is an original written by Randy Weston. Throughout the album, Don Sebesky’s do an exemplary job of reinforcing but never overwhelming Weston’s writing or the playing of the core group. And the African mood and sound never comes across as ersatz, despite it being presented in a cutting edge, electronic 1970s format. Friends from overseas

Although it subsequently drifted into obscurity, Blue Moses was something of a best I Rock Jazz (Michigan) Herts Jazz Festival All Jazz Radio (Cape Town, SA) seller when it was first released and it’s easy to see why. Now it’s wonderful to have Citizen Jazz (Paris,France) it available again on vinyl, and sounding so good. This 180 gram reissue, pressed at Jazzthetik (Münster, Germany) Pallas in Lower Saxony (Europe’s leading record plant) also preserves the beautiful Pete Turner cover photo featuring the stare of a mystic, focused on infinity — a psychedelic, solarised image drawn from Turner’s visit to the Far East. “This is a holy man, in Benares, India, near the Ganges,” recalls the photographer, where he The London Column in was “on assignment covering Allen Ginsberg.” A perfect accompaniment to this modern jazz vision of distant horizons, with American art paying homage to foreign devotions.

LINK: Blue Moses at Speakers Corner Records

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