All Things Jazz @miles-monk-mingus - Tumblr Blog

I met George Cables a few years ago and he was awesome - friendly, humble and willing to talk jazz all day. One of the great Post-Bop players of all time. He’s been on a roll the last few years between his work as the rhythm anchor in the killer band The Cookers and his recent trio records for High Note - all have been great. Good news - a new album.

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Dave Brubeck - In Your Own Sweet Way - In Your Own Sweet Way

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Skyscrapers and Everything

“About four minutes into Stevie Wonder’s 1973 classic “Living for the City”—a surging, seven-plus minute thumper track about racial injustice, migration, and the failure of the latter to cure the former—the song emerges from its second chorus and breaks down to its sparest parts. We hear the quizzical staccato of the synthesizer flit in and out like lingering sunlight; the dry drums, which just seconds ago were rolling out an elaborate fill, tap quarter-note rimshots on the snare; all the other instruments stop playing. Welcome to New York.”

-Rowan Ricardo Phillips

June 5, 2015

The Paris Review

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Lover Man

This is an absolutely beautiful rendition of Lover Man by Roland Kirk on flute. Beyond his superhuman physical feats with reeds and his penchant for the surreal, Rahsaan was at his core a brilliant and versatile soloist with exceptional musicianship. This comes from a Dutch program in the early ‘60s (YouTube dates it as 1959 but that’s too early). Kirk is backed here by pianist George Gruntz’s trio.

-Michael Cuscuna

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Single-o, all the way, rain or shine Gonna stay single-o ‘till you’re mine

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Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder

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PBS’ Blank on Blank series: John Coltrane on Giant Steps

#John Coltrane #Giant Steps #Blank on Blank #PBS

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Sun Ra (Chris Felver/Getty Images)

#Sun Ra

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‘If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.’ — Billy Strayhorn, born #onthisday in 1915

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#Duke Pearrson #Gene Taylor #Lex Humphries

From the album - Feelin' the Spirit, 1962 Grant Green - guitar Herbie Hancock - piano Butch Warren - bass Billy Higgins - drums Garvin Masseaux - tambourine

#Grant Green #Herbie Hancock #Butch Warren #Billy Higgins #Garvin Masseaux #Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child