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MUSIC WEEK NOVEMBER 29, 1975 D c Q D Q D IV n n Paul Gonslavcs, Russell Procope, MC COY TYNER STAN GETZ ©CHART CERTAINTY various people - including the music contractor and the copyists. Ray Nance. Clarke Terry, Johnny Live At Newport. Impulse 1MPL The Special Magic Of Stan Get/. & Sales potential within Hodges and Jimmy Hamilton. 8010. Producer: Bob Thiclo. A Burl Bacharach. Producer: Esmond Hardly in the Blue Note jazz 1'Ivin Jones is on four ol the superb album recorded at the Edwards. Easy listening jazz from respective market sorry - street music tradition, the tracks and Pec Wee Russell puts in 1963 Newport Jazz l estival. this the tenor saxophone master *** Good LP contains much that is musically satisfying spiced with a strong an appearance on Black & Tan LP showcases the articulate and • recorded in 1967 with pianist ** Fair Eantasy. Recorded in 1966. the inventive piano of Mc Coy Tyner in the rhythm section latin flavour. There is a handsome album includes Ellington's at a time when he was still playing and an assortment of strings and * Poor trumpet solo on Kamba by Oscar Cottontail and Hines's own You conventional modern jazz piano. brass. The 11 tracks include some Brashoar, sounding like the Donald Can Depend On Me. Impeccable rhythm backing from of the great Bacharach songs such charts and must have good UK Byrd of the mid-sixties, and some Bob Cranshaw and Mickey Roker as What The World Needs Now, sales potential. Highlight is Song fetching vocals by Lynda CHARLIE PARKER To John, a two-part tribute to Lawrence on numbers which have and eloquent support from Clark Wives And Lovers. In Times Like John Coltrane. Bird & Miles. DJM DJML 062. Terry and Charlie Mariano on These and A House Is Not A ** more than a touch of the Sergio The ten tracks on this album come three of the five tracks. Home. Mendes. Good, Colourful, from Dial sessions of 1946 and + * >>! CHARLIE BARNET atmospheric music. Charlie Barnel & His Orchestra. 1947 which have already appeared KEITH JARRETT CHARLIE MINGUS DJM DJML 061. This LP in DJM's JELLY ROLL MORTON here on Tony Williams Parker The Koln Concert ECM 1064/5 Changes Vol 1 & 2. Atlantic SD Jazz Inheritance series features 12 Jelly Roll Morton. DJML 052. series on Spotlitc (Vols. 1, 4 & 5) ST. Producer: Manfred Eicher. A 16 7 7/ 8. Producers: Ilhan tracks from the 1940/41 period These are piano rolls from 1924 and on the Saga Charlie Parker set brilliant double album from ECM Mimaroglu, Nesuhi Ertegun. not the vintage era for Barnel but 'and, as such, of considerable (Vol. 9). This clearly limits sales mainstay Keith Jarrelt, providing Lively, piquant and distinctive interesting nevertheless. Tracks historic interest. Ten ot the 12 potential, even though tracks like an illustrious start on Virgin music from a Mingus quintet with include The Duke's Idea. Uptown compositions arc by Morton Bird Of Paradise and Embraceable Records* new licensing deal with George Adams on tenor. Jack Blues and Song Of The Volga himself, including Jolly Roll Blues, You represent some of Parker's this specialist German label. Walralh on trumpet. Don Pullcn Boatman and there is an intriguing Mr Jelly Lord, King Porter Stomp best recorded work. I he recording Already in the Billboard Jazz LP on piano and the obligatory vocal on one track from a young and London Blues. A very quality is somewhat inferior to chart, this LP showcases the Dannie Richmond on drums. Lena Home. Plenty surface noise worthwhile addition to DJM s that on the spotlitc records. sustained melodic and harmonic Recorded in New York in but good nostalgia appeal. low-price Jazz Inheritance series. invention of Jarrelt as a solo December 1974. the albums •K A- ik* ALICE COLTRANE pianist and is beautifully recorded- feature mostly Mingus originals, LEE MORGAN GALACTIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Lords Of Lords. Impulse IMPL Recommended unreserved ly. including a fascinating version of All That Jazz. DJM DJLMD 8007. Galaxis. Polydor 2310 364. 8009. Producer: Ed Michel. This is Orange Was The Color Of Her By 1970 when this double album Producer: Jummy Pratt. This is a very intense, introverted music by Dress Then Silk Blue. (This Mingus was made. Gillespie protege Lee remarkable album of big band jazz the widow of John Coltrane but it VARIOUS ARTISTS work was on the Liberty album Morgan had established himself as rock arrangements of popular hardly qualifies as jazz even Black Giants CBS 88151. Mingus At Monterey released here one of the great jazz trumpet classics like Grieg's Anitra's Dance, with the assistance, noted in the Producer: Te o M a cero. A in 1969). Another highlight is the players. These are extended Schubert's Avc Maria, Chopin's liner, of John C.'s "astral globule". magnificent compilation this, dramatic Sue's Changes. A typical performances from a Los Angeles Prelude in C minor and Eibich's Alice Coltrane is an impressive including many hitherto unrcleased Mingus mixture of moods, tempos club date with fiery tenorist Poem. Arrangements, enterprising musician but this album is for tracks by jazz greats like and textures and one of his best Benny Maupin and a high grade and imaginative, arc by Peter determined initiates only. Armstrong. Miles Davis, Basic, sets to date. Ellington, the Jazz Messengers, rhythm section in Harold Mabcrn, Herbolzhcimer, leader of the BILLY COBHAM Thclonious Monk. Charlie Mingus, Jymic Merritt and Mickey Roker. Rhythm Combination & Brass, and A Punky Thide Of Sings. Atlantic Bud Powell, Coleman Hawkins, Tracks include the crackling the ensemble includes some of SD 18149. Producers: Billy Art Tat urn, Erroll Garner Horace Journey To Love. Nemperor NE Morgan original. Speedball. Europe's top musicians. Cobham, Mark Mcyerson. This is a Silver and Quincy Jones. Worth 433. Producers; Stanley Clarke, typical, highly efficient crossover the price for the previously Ken Scoll. A beautifully conceived MOACIR SANTOS EARL MINES album with the usual insistent unissued Love Eor Sale by the album by virtuoso bassist Clarke Carnival Of The Spirits. Blue Note. Once Upon A Time. Impulse IMPL funk-soul rhythm boogaloo 1958 Mils Davis Sextet (with with excellent support from some BN-LA 463-G. Producer: Dale 8011. Producer; Bob Thiclo. This percussion and elaborate Coltrane, Cannonball Addcrley and high calibre musicians such as Oehler. One claim to fame of this is one of Bob Thielc's great electronics. Cobham is a fine Bill Evans). Has to be a major jazz , Chick Corea, John album by saxophonist/vocalist mainstream records, uniting the drummer but the album as a seller. McLaughlin & Steve Gadd. This Moacir Santos is that the sleeve irrepressible Earl Mines with such whole doesn't imoress. LP has made the Billboard jazz lists a total of 79 credits to giants from the Ellington band as

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