05-12-2018 # JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1974-1985

05-12-2018 # JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1974-1985 # Al Di Meola, Orquestra Mirasol, Mulatu Astatke, Flora Purim, Pat Metheny Group, Flora Purim, Gil Scott-Heron, Steve Khan, Dewey Redman Quartet, Wynton Marsalis, Bill Frisell, Lyle Mays

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1974-1985

Spellbinding jazz guitarist who is revered for his blazing, complex fretwork in the vein of jazz fusion, Latin fusion, and acoustic styles. Guitarist Al Di Meola first rose to prominence as a blazing jazz fusion artist before his playing matured and he began to conquer other styles, such as acoustic Latin music.
Al Di Meola
Land of the Midnight Sun (Al Di Meola) 9:10
The Wizard (Mingo Lewis) 6:46
Love Theme from "Pictures of the Sea" (Al Di Meola) 2:24
from Land of the Midnight Sun 1976
One of the guitar heroes of fusion, Al di Meola was just 22-years-old at the time of his debut as a leader but already a veteran of Chick Corea's Return to Forever...  With assistance from such top players as bassists Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke, keyboardist Barry Miles, and drummers Lenny White and Steve Gadd, this was a very impressive beginning to di Meola's solo career.

Short-lived yet very interesting Jazz/Fusion band from Barcelona, Orquestra Mirasol were among the groups blending US Jazz/Fusion with Spanish music during the 70's.The line-up of their first album included Xavier Batlés on bass, Victor Ammann on piano, Ricard Roda on synthesizers, Pedrito Diaz on percussion and Miquel Lizandra on drums.This was entitled ''Salsa Catalana'', released in 1974 on the Catalan label Zeleste.
Orquestra Mirasol
Molt Trist 7:13
No Juguis Amb Set Miralls 7:00
from Salsa Catalana 1974
...The style of Orquestra Mirasol was heavily influenced by the approach of RETURN TO FOREVER and WEATHER REPORT, mixing energetic pleasant grooves with jazzy jams and interplays in a very succesful way.Their arrangements, both short and long, featured impressive piano lines, extremely nice bass workouts and some really beautiful clarinet solos.Orquestra Mirasol change their smooth passages into more bombastic material, full of intensity and interplays, and throughout the release there is evident some admiration for Classical Music, at moments they sound a lot like a Chamber Rock band.Another reason for this approach is the addition of string instruments in a couple of tracks and some symphonic-inclined instrumental sections with a very dramatic edge.Still Fusion remains the starting point of the band and the more powerful moments can be easily compared with WEATHER REPORT's music, driven by the piano, bass and percussion work...

An influential Ethiopian musician, composer, and arranger who is known as the father of Ethio-jazz. Ethiopian musician (piano, organ, vibraphone, and percussion), composer, and arranger Mulatu Astatke (the name is spelled Astatqé on his French releases) is a household name in his native country, where he is known as the father of Ethio-jazz, a unique blend of pop, modern jazz, traditional Ethiopian music, Latin rhythms, Caribbean reggae, and Afro-funk. 
Mulatu Astatke
Yèkèrmo Sèw (Mulatu Astatke) 4:13
Shagu (Mulatu Astatke) 3:05
Wubit with Muluken Melesse (Mulatu Astatke) 5:31
from New York - Addis - London: The Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975 (2009)
...Ethio jazz was never a commercial success in Ethiopia. That Ahma and Philips Ethiopia even saw fit to release any of it is a credit to their commitment to art over commerce, and even today it remains little-heard in its homeland. But Mulatu was a master craftsman and one of the most supremely inventive composers of a time when an awful lot of creative music was being made around the world...

08-11-2018 # JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1968-1978

Dennis Coffey

08-11-2018 # JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1968-1978 # Dennis Coffey, Tal Farlow, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Jean-Luc Ponty Experience, Larry Coryell and The Eleventh House, Orquestra Mirasol, Mulatu Astatke, Al Di Meola, Flora Purim, Pat Metheny Group

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1968-1978

Dennis Coffey remains an active hero from the halcyon era of Detroit soul, contributing guitar to landmark records issued on the Motown, Ric-Tic, and Revilot labels. His guitar playing can be heard on such iconic Northern soul singles as "Just My Imagination," "Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)," "War," "Cloud Nine," "Someday We'll Be Together," and "Band of Gold." In addition, he cut a series of efforts under his own name, most notably the cult classic blaxploitation soundtrack Black Belt Jones and the hit single-turned-vintage record collector mainstay "Scorpio."
Dennis Coffey
I'm a Midnight Mover (Wilson Pickett / Bobby Womack) 4:03
Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) 13:39
Burning Spear (Richard Evans) 13:54
from One Night at Morey's: 1968 (2018)
2017's archival Resonance release of Hot Coffey in the D: Burnin' at Morey Baker's Showplace Lounge, was a healthy dose of Funk Brother Dennis Coffey's work with organist Lyman Woodard's trio at the famed Detroit venue in 1968. It caught the band reinventing soul, jazz, and funk covers and originals in their Motor City image to reveal a highly individual, collective, in-the-pocket exploratory artistry... Unlike typical soul-jazz organ trios from the era, this music is raw: It is to jazz-funk what the MC5 and Stooges were to Detroit rock. As the band crosses from the opening rave-up of "I'm a Midnight Mover" to a brooding yet explosive cover of "Eleanor Rigby," it's easy to hear why... Anyone wise enough to pick up the Resonance set will absolutely want this volume in order to fill out the hard-grooving trio's aural portrait. Anyone who hasn't yet will find One Night at Morey's: 1968 a fine -- perhaps preferable -- place to start. All killer, no filler.

Leading early bop guitarist who helped define the modern jazz guitar with his great speed, technique, and flow of ideas.
Tal Farlow
Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk) 6:24
Summertime (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward) 5:36
from The Return Of Tal Farlow/1969
After recording a series of rewarding albums in the '50s, guitarist Tal Farlow largely dropped out of the jazz scene, being quite content to be a sign painter in New England. This Prestige set (reissued on CD) was his first in a decade and would be followed by another seven years of silence. Fortunately, Farlow had continued playing on a low-profile basis in the interim, and he was still very much in top form. Joined by pianist John Scully, bassist Jack Six and drummer Alan Dawson...

The epitome of cool, an eternally evolving trumpeter who repeatedly changed the course of jazz between the 1950s and '90s... Bitches Brew, Davis turned more overtly to a jazz-rock style. Though certainly not conventional rock music, Davis' electrified sound attracted a young, non-jazz audience while putting off traditional jazz fans.
Miles Davis
Pharaoh's Dance (Joe Zawinul) 20:04
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (Miles Davis) 14:01
from Bitches Brew 1970
Thought by many to be among the most revolutionary albums in jazz history, Miles Davis' Bitches Brew solidified the genre known as jazz-rock fusion. The original double LP included only six cuts and featured up to 12 musicians at any given time, some of whom were already established while others would become high-profile players later, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Airto, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Don Alias, Bennie Maupin, Larry Young, and Lenny White among them. Originally thought to be a series of long jams locked into grooves around keyboard, bass, or guitar vamps, Bitches Brew is actually a recording that producer Teo Macero assembled from various jams and takes by razor blade, splice to splice, section to section...