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📸 Art Kane, 1958
‘I have no idea how they decided to stand where they did, and with whom, but they did. Slowly they formed themselves into a big group … and I saw they couldn’t have got themselves into a better position’ – Art Kane
The Unconventional Genius of Malachi Favors: A Journey Through Avant-Garde Jazz
Introduction: Malachi Favors was a jazz musician who never sought the spotlight but whose contributions were fundamental to the evolution of avant-garde jazz. Best known as the bassist for the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Favors’ work went beyond the conventional boundaries of jazz, pushing the envelope in ways that continue to influence musicians today. His life and career were marked by a…
double bassist Wilbur Ware, 1950s
photography: Francis Wolff
Wilbur Ware, recording with J. R. Monterose [1956]
Cecil Payne - Zodiac (1973, Strata-East)
Recorded: December 16, 1968, at Town Sound Studios, Englewood, NJ
All compositions by Cecil Payne
"Martin Luther King, Jr." - 6:55
"I Know Love" - 2:09
"Girl, You Got a Home" - 10:48
"Slide Hampton" - 4:21
"Follow Me" - 9:16
"Flying Fish" - 12:20
Personnel
Cecil Payne - baritone saxophone, alto saxophone
Kenny Dorham - trumpet
Wynton Kelly - piano, organ
Wilbur Ware - bass
Albert Kuumba Heath - drums
quite good.
NPR: Jazz Night in America
Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Village Vanguard -- 60 Years Ago
Nate Chinen’s essay on the merits of Sonny Rollins’s A Night At The Village Vanguard, published sixty years to the day after its recording, includes Sonny’s recollections and observations about the gig and the music made there. This album, and its later expanded CD version, will remain one of the great recorded achievements of an amazing period in jazz history.
-Michael Cuscuna
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Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Wilbur Ware & Shadow Wilson • Ruby, My Dear, 1957
