What Jazz or Blues are you spinning?

[Barry]

Stan Tracey Trio – 'Seventy Something'



Label: Trio Records (3) – TR563
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 2004
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz

[Barry]

Stan Tracey Octet – 'Portraits Plus'



Label: Blue Note International – CDP 0777 7 80696 2 1
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: March 30, 1992
Genre: Jazz
Style: Post Bop, Contemporary Jazz

[Barry]

Cassandra Wilson – 'Blue Light 'Til Dawn'



Label: Blue Note – CDP 0777 7 81357 2 2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: October 18, 1993
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz

[Mikeandvan]

It’s an excellent album, I have had it since the 70s, a lot of Romantic Warrior is very good.


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Had it a few days now, nice mint copy. The opening track blew me away, played it about 5 times in a row, side 2 slows down a bit, but great LP.

[WOStantonCS100]

Yusef Lateef's Detroit
Latitude 42 deg 30' Longitude 83 deg
LP

[Barry]

Nice one.

Do you know of his 'Cry Tender'?

[AJSki2fly]

Had it a few days now, nice mint copy. The opening track blew me away, played it about 5 times in a row, side 2 slows down a bit, but great LP.

most of their music is pretty good and worth a listen


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[WOStantonCS100]

Nope…. But I do, now. 😁

Nice one.

Do you know of his 'Cry Tender'?

[WOStantonCS100]

I bumped into her at a gas station a few years back, just down the street from our (former) house. I didn’t know who she was…. …but that car! It wasn’t until after I happened to get her album on recommendation and saw an online article (linked below) about her and that car that I put two and two together. Life is funny… I was used to running into musicians and such in NYC and Nashville but some little home town…. not so much.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-singe...er-11582640613

[WOStantonCS100]

It’s an excellent album, I have had it since the 70s, a lot of Romantic Warrior is very good.


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Romanitc Warrior absolutely ruined me while I was still in my single digits. In many ways, I have never recovered and likely never will. Though I never stopped listening to other music, for quite a long time afterwards I held a good chunk of contempt and disdain for "lesser" musicians/"lesser" composers (especially outside of the jazz and classical arenas). The prowess of the musicianship along with the compositional aspect of, in particular, Chick's pieces just wiped the floor with so many who were praised in the music media, routinely. Typical r&b, rock, pop and funk of the day (which I was also into)... forget about it. Lesson learned and retained.

As I grew, I realized not all musicians/composers/songwriters aspire to the same goals and it's perfectly okay, even imperative to "do what you do" (a music library of only Return to Forever and the Elektric Band "I" and II would be sad, very sad, nor did the art of electric fusion guitar stop with Al DiMeola (not by a long stretch)... George Clinton is just as relevant as George Russell. Wayne Newtown is just as relevant as Wayne Krantz. Gil Scott-Heron is just as relevant as Gil Evans and so on it goes.

But, dayyum... in 1976... RTF set the "jazz fusion bar" so high they (in my opinion) had no where to go for their next one Musicmagic... and it showed, despite liking that album for different reasons. Similarly, albums like Birds of Fire, Thrust, Enigmatic Ocean and Black Market all had me wondering for a while why anyone gave a **** about Sonny and Cher! (Full disclosure: I own several Sonny and Cher albums, now.)

...just my two cents off the top of my head... No offense intended to anyone.