01-05-2020 JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1983-1972

Pat Metheny

01-05-2020 JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1983-1972 # Pat Metheny, Kip Hanrahan, Willem Breuker Kollektief, Weather Report, John Abercrombie Quartet, Oregon, Shakti,  McCoy Tyner, Steve Reid, Keith Jarrett, Eero Koivistoinen Music Society, Mulatu Astatke

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1983-1972

Guitar virtuoso whose accessible, original style and extraordinary sense of technique bridged the gap between jazz and rock.
Pat Metheny
Humpty Dumpty (Ornette Coleman) 5:40
Rejoicing (Ornette Coleman) 3:15
The Calling (Pat Metheny) 9:51
from Rejoicing 1983
Pat Metheny takes a vacation from his Group and performs advanced material with bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Billy Higgins. In addition to Horace Silver's "Lonely Woman,... and three Ornette Coleman tunes, the guitarist plays three of his originals here, including "The Calling," a lengthy exploration of sounds with his guitar synthesizer. Throughout this excellent set, Metheny and his sidemen engage in close communication and create memorable and unpredictable music. (Scott Yanow)

Contemporary producer who creates eclectic Latin-tinged musical melanges utilizing the best New York musicians. He leads the band, and doesn't really play, but Kip Hanrahan is a forward thinker and an incredible organizer of all-star progressive bands.
Kip Hanrahan
Whatever I Want (Kip Hanrahan) 5:44
India Song (Marguerite Duras / Carlos d'Alessio) 4:16
Heart on My Sleeve (Teo Macero) 5:19
from Coup de tête 1982
Fittingly enough, the first sound heard on Kip Hanrahan's premier release is that of the conga and the first word sung is "sex," two leitmotifs that would appear consistently in his ensuing work. Coup de Tete burst on the scene in the early '80s as an entirely fresh, invigorating amalgam of Cuban percussion (much of it Santeria-based), free jazz, funk, and intimate, confrontational lyrics. Hanrahan had worked at New Music Distribution Service, a project run by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler (both of whom appear on this album), and had established contacts with numerous musicians from varied fields who he threw together in a glorious New York City melting pot. With the percussion and electric bass laying down thick and delicious grooves, the cream of the younger avant saxophonists in New York at the time wail over the top, accompanying some of the most brutally uncomfortable lyrics ever put to wax...  Interspersed among the bitter love harangues and ecstatic percussion-driven numbers are two stunningly lovely pieces, Marguerite Duras' "India Song" and Teo Macero's "Heart on My Sleeve," both aching with romanticism. Coup de Tete is a superb record, an impressive debut, and, arguably, one of the finest moments in Hanrahan's career along with the following release, Desire Develops an Edge. Highly recommended. (Brian Olewnick)

Inventive, fiery Dutch jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger whose absurdist collectives have stoked controversy and passion.
Willem Breuker Kollektief
Tango Superior/Interruptie (Willem Breuker) 3:23
Deining (Willem Breuker) 5:34
Prokof (Willem Breuker) 3:51
from In Holland 1981
Simply put, this is the finest album ever released by the Willem Breuker Kollektief as a jazz tentet (as opposed to the repertory ensemble they later became). In Holland contains the most creative orchestrations, and the most thrilling solo work by the Kollektief, and ranks among the best jazz albums of the '80s... continuing on through an uproarious tango featuring a comically frustrated Breuker on alto, a drunkenly careening showcase for the brilliant trumpeter Boy Raaymakers, a loving homage to Prokofiev... Though the group lost quite a bit of freshness after the mid-'80s, In Holland qualifies as an extraordinary record by one of the most creative and enjoyable jazz ensembles to have emerged from Europe.

Fired some of the first shots in the fusion revolution, and, for the majority of the 15 years of its existence, was its premier exponent. Weather Report started out as a jazz equivalent of what the rock world in 1970 was calling a "supergroup." But unlike most of the rock supergroups, this one not only kept going for a good 15 years, it more than lived up to its billing, practically defining the state of the jazz-rock art throughout almost all of its run.
Weather Report
Night Passage (Joe Zawinul) 6:33
Rockin' in Rhythm (Harry Carney / Duke Ellington / Irving Mills) 3:02
Fast City (Joe Zawinul) 6:16
from Night Passage 1980
All things being relative, this is Weather Report's straightahead album, where the elaborate production layers of the late-'70s gave way to sparer textures and more unadorned solo improvisation in the jazz tradition, electric instruments and all. The flaw of this album is the shortage of really memorable compositions; it is more of a vehicle for the virtuosic feats of what is considered by some to be the classic WR lineup -- Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Robert Thomas, Jr. and Peter Erskine. For Erskine, this is is first full studio album and he amply demonstrates his terrific sense of forward drive unique among the other superb drummers in WR annals... There is also a tremendously fun retro trip to Duke Ellington's "Rockin' in Rhythm," everybody swinging their heads and hands off. (Richard S. Ginell)