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...