The Daily Jazz

To celebrate the 'launch' of my new website featuring the wonderful Archie Shepp (not much content yet... perhaps I could celebrate ...

PHAROAH SANDERS Elevation impulse! AS-9261 Recorded September 1973 1. Elevation 2. Greeting to Saud (Brother McCoy Tyner) 3. Ore-Se-Rere 4. ...

OK, so i've had a look at the preceding posts, and it's fair to say that there are one or two obscurities in my jazz collection judg...

ARCHIE SHEPP Black Gypsy America 30 AM 6099 Stereo Recorded November 9th, 1969 Side 1 1. Black Gypsy Side 2 1. Epitaph Of A Small Winner ...

AL GREY The Thinking Man's Trombone Pye Jazz NJL31 Recorded August 23rd-25th, 1960 Side One 1. Salty Papa 2. Don't Cry Baby 3. Stran...

GRANT GREEN Carryin' On Blue Note BST-84327 Recorded 1969 1. Ease Back (5:43) 2. Hurt So Bad (6:45) 3. I Don't Want Nobody To Give ...

Bobby Hutcherson Head On Blue Note BST–84376 Released 1971 Side One 1. At The Source: 1. Ashes And Rust 2. At The Source: 2. Eucalyptus 3...

Still obsessed with the idea of finding a jazz blog worse than this one, once again I have set off on my travels through cyberspace to selec...

RALPH TOWNER Works ECM Records ECM 823268-1 Released 1984 ; recorded 1975-1983 Side One 1. Oceanus (1975) 2. Blue Sun (1983) 3. New Moon (19...

The “Better Than It Has Any Right To Be” Award, Part 2 Let me tell you a story… Regular readers of these pages will no doubt of ...

Levi French’s The Cat Project 11/11/05 CBSO Centre, Birmingham 1. Organ Grinder Swing (Quartet) 2. Blue Bash (Quartet) 3. Who’s Afr...

DUKE ELLINGTON The Far East Suite Bluebird LPRCA3782 Recorded 1966 1. Tourist Point Of View 2. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) 3. Isfahan 4. Depk...

JIMMY SMITH The Sermon Blue Note 4011 Stereo Side One The Sermon Side Two J.O.S. (*) Flamingo Personnel...

Creed Taylor was the man! No, i'm not going daft with exclamation marks again - I mean the man who set up impulse! records. This must ma...

GEORGE BENSON Beyond The Blue Horizon CTI 6009 Stereo Recorded at Van Gelder Studios by Rudy Van Gelder February 1971 Side one ...

THE JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY Live 25/08/2005 Café-Du-Nord Set List Halliburton Breakdown Improvisation Happiness Is A Warm Gun...

ORNETTE COLEMAN The Shape Of Jazz To Come Atlantic 8122-72398-2 Stereo Recorded 22nd May 1959 1. Lonely Woman 2. Eventually 3....

PHAROAH SANDERS Black Unity impulse! AS-9219 Stereo Recorded November 24th, 1971 1. Black Unity Personnel PHAROAH SANDERS ; tenor saxophone...

It's Albert Ayler playing the bagpipes. Surely you can come up with a better caption than that. If so, then leave it as a comment below....

As the previous posts have demonstrated, France was a thriving home for the American free jazz scene in the late 1960's and early 1970...