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Nardis - David Matthews (Big Band Recorded Live At The "Five Spot", 1975) bass intro big band

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Junior Cook Good Cookin’ Muse Records MR 5159

Produced by Fred Seibert

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder

Junior Cook – tenor saxophone

Bill Hardman – trumpet, flugelhorn

Slide Hampton – trombone, arranger

Mario Rivera – baritone saxophone

Albert Dailey – piano

Walter Booker – bass

Leroy Williams – drums

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"Kong's Dance” by Louis Hayes    

personnel: Louis (drums & co-producer), Tex Allen (trumpet, & flugelhorn, & writer), Gerald Hayes (alto saxophone), Charles Davis (baritone sax & soprano sax), Ronnie Mathews (piano), David Williams (bass), Thelonious “Toot” Monk Jr. (congas & percussion), Don Schlitten (co-producer), and Ron Carron & Paul Goodman (recording engineers).

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Jazz Record Label Owner Joe Fields, R.I.P.

Joe Fields was the last of the old school record men. He worked at Verve and Prestige and believed in getting into a car with a trunk full of records and promoting the hell out of the artists on those records. He struck out on his own in 1972 with Muse Records and for the next five decades recorded one great album after another, capturing the music of the time. Muse begat High Note and Savant. Joe knew budgets had to be low (and lower as the years went on), but he committed great music to record and boosted artists’s careers when others had given up. He recorded, promoted and distributed great music until the day he died.

-Michael Cuscuna

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AllMusic Staff Picks The  Complete Muse Sessions Woody Shaw

“Largely out of print since their initial release, these Muse albums represent not only some of the most important recordings of Shaw's career, but some of the most influential and individualistic artistic statements by a jazz artist in the 20th century. With his combination of technical prowess and knowledge of the jazz tradition, as well as a keen harmonic vision for where to take his music and jazz as a whole into the future, Woody Shaw was a towering if often underappreciated figure during his lifetime.”

- Matt Collar

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Joyce From The Bronx - David Matthews (Big Band Recorded Live At The "Five Spot", 1975)

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Willis Jackson > Single Action

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Willis Jackson with Pat Martino Single Action

Produced by Fred Seibert

Willis Jackson: tenor saxophone

Pat Martino: guitar Carl Wilson: organ Jimmy Lewis: bass Yusef Ali: drums Ralph Dorsey: percussion

Willis Jackson single handedly pulled me away from the avant garde and towards the soulful, bluesy expression of jazz that was popular in the African American neighborhoods of mid-century America. He didn’t mean to, he didn’t want to, it was just that he was so damn good.

Less a producer than actually a recording supervisor (my credit on this album) I arrived at our first session together (Muse’s In the Alley) with virtually no information on what we were recording or who was playing. Willis was tough and a little paranoid so this situation played out during the three or four sessions we did together. I’d never heard any of his music (it wasn’t cool enough within the jazzbo circles I traveled in) and when I looked into the studio I thought I’d been time warped into the 1950s: five African Americans 20 years older than me in conked processes and starched white shirts and ties. They hit the first tune and didn’t stop until Willis looked up at me and asked if they had enough to fill the record. When informed they were eight minutes short he revved up a blues and kept it going until I faded it to make the length.

By the end of the five hour session I’d stopped making fun (in my head) of the tenor saxophone/organ based soul jazz, and realized why it spoke to so many millions of people. It wasn’t an intellectual exercise but a human one. They were playing songs that people knew and loved, with a feeling that anyone could understand. I was late to the party, but it wouldn’t be over for me even 30 years later. ….. Credits

Muse Records MR 5179 Willis Jackson with Pat Martino Single Action

Recording supervisor: Fred Seibert Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder, Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey April 26, 1978 Cover Design by Ron Warwell/NJE Cover photo by Clarence Eastmond

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