World of Jazz 381

• Tomas Janzon “Softly As In Morning Sunrise” from 130th and Lenox (Changes Music) 00:00
• Manu Dibango “New Bell ‘Hard Pulsation'” from Soul Makossa (Atlantic) 07:40
• Wallace Roney “Wolfbane” from Blue Dawn Blue Nights (High Note) 14:20
• Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wallace Roney, Tony Williams “Eighty One” from A Tribute To Miles (Qwest, Reprise) 23:35
• Miles Davis and Quincey Jones “Solea” from Live at Montreux (ECM) 30:51
• Schapiro17 “Freddie Freeloader” from New Shoes : Kind of Blue at 60 (Summit Records) 43:22
• Manu Dibango “African Carnival” from Africadelic (Hi & Fly Records) 56:18
• Leo Smith “Divine Love” from Divine Love (ECM) 1:00:00
• Ralph Alessi, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Kris Davis “Nit Splitting” from Lark (Skirl) 1:22:49
• Schapiro17 “Old Feet New Shoes” from New Shoes : Kind of Blue at 60 (Summit Records) 1:42:11
• Ralph Alessi, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Kris Davis “Defensive Indifference” from Lark (Skirl) 1:47:19
• Tomas Janzon “Somewhere Over Stockholm” from 130th and Lenox (Changes Music) 1:52:20
• Art Pepper “Diannes Dilemma” from Modern Art (Blue Note) 1:58:00

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On this show there are tributes to the recently departed Wallace Roney and Manu Dibango.  There’s a couple of tracks from Manu and selection of highlights from Wallace picking up on work associated with his mentor Miles Davis

I also feature the recent  album from guitarist Tomas Janzon in a great quartet, and there’s also the intriguing New Yorkers Schapiro17 with their fascinating re-working of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue into big band arrangements.

There’s a dip in the archive for a groundbreaking track from Wadada Leo Smith from 1978, plus, a recently released album from Ingrid Laubrock who is in some fine company.

 

• HOUR ONE
• Tomas Janzon “Softly As In Morning Sunrise” from 130th and Lenox (Changes Music)
  • Tomas Janzon-guitar,

    Steve Nelson-vibraphone,

    Hilliard Greene-bass,

    Chuck McPherson-drums

    4th October 2019

    Softly as in a Morning Sunrise: I had an idea about keeping a reoccurring note in the middle of a falling line of chords. In this case it was the open G-string. I do have an affinty for descending dominant chords. It is like coming home, like finding a starting point, putting your feet on the ground or reaching inside for a place of peace. And the composition’s almost modal nature (staying on one chord) made it all come together
• Manu Dibango “New Bell ‘Hard Pulsation'” from Soul Makossa (Atlantic)
  • 1972
  • Bass – Long Manfred *
    Drums – Joby Jobs
    Electric Guitar – Malekany Gerry *
    Guitar – Pierre Zogo
    Percussion – Freddy Mars
    Percussion [Tumba] – Manu Rodanet
    Piano – Georges Arvanitas , Patrice Galas
    Saxophone, Written-By – Manu Dibango
• Wallace Roney “Wolfbane” from Blue Dawn Blue Nights (High Note)
  • Wallace Roney – Trumpet
  • Emilio Modeste – Tenor and soprano saxophones
  • Oscar Williams II – Piano
  • Paul Cuffari – Bass
  • Lenny White –
  • Quintin Zoto –
  • his twenty-second release as a leader
  • 2019
• Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wallace Roney, Tony Williams “Eighty One” from A Tribute To Miles (Qwest, Reprise)
  • 1994
  • Miles Davis, Ron Carter
• Miles Davis and Quincey Jones “Solea” from Live at Montreux (ECM)
  • It was recorded at the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival and released by Warner Bros. Records in 1993.
• Schapiro17 “Freddie Freeloader” from New Shoes : Kind of Blue at 60 (Summit Records)
  • Jon Schapiro-composer/conductor/arranger, Bryan Davis – trumpet, Andy Gravish – trumpet, Eddie Allen – trumpet, Noyes Bartholomew – trumpet, Deborah Weisz – trombone, Alex Jeun – trombone, Nick Grinder – trombone, Walter Harris – bass trombone, Rob Wilkerson – alto saxophone (tracks 1-4),  , Candace DeBartolo – alto saxophone, Paul Carlon – tenor saxophone, Rob Middleton – tenor saxophone, Matt Hong – baritone saxophone, Roberta Piket – piano, Sebastian Noelle – guitar, Evan Gregor – bass, Jon Wikan – drums
  • The arrangements by  Jon Schapiro for his 17-piece orchestra take the five themes of Kind of Blue (“So What,” “Blue in Green,” “All Blues,” “Flamenco Sketches” and “Freddie Freeloader”) as points of departure, altering the pieces while retaining their creative essence. The writing at times recalls Gil Evans, Charles Mingus and Bob Brookmeyer but is quite original and modern. In addition, Schapiro contributed seven originals
• Manu Dibango “African Carnival” from Africadelic (Hi & Fly Records)
  • 1972/2006
  • Manu and his African Pop Group
• HOUR TWO
• Leo Smith “Divine Love” from Divine Love (ECM)
  • This was Smith’s first album for ECM, he’d return to the label sporadically after Divine Love, most recently just a couple of years ago.The opener. – for nearly 22 minutes, it drifts in long, languid sighs and calls from Smith and from Dwight Andrews on alto flute. No drummer keeping time, just sporadic little clatters of percussion, occasional vibes/marimba from Bobby Naughton. Moments of nothing but pure reverberating silence. This is free jazz retreating from the coalface of everyone blowing at once to find zen sanctuary.One of the most beautifully unique albums in the ECM catalogue.

    Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany in September 1978

• Ralph Alessi, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Kris Davis “Nit Splitting” from Lark (Skirl)
  • recently re-released digitally
  • 2013
• Schapiro17 “Old Feet New Shoes” from New Shoes : Kind of Blue at 60 (Summit Records)
• Ralph Alessi, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Kris Davis “Defensive Indifference” from Lark (Skirl)
• Tomas Janzon “Somewhere Over Stockholm” from 130th and Lenox (Changes Music)
  • I was lying on my back on a sofa on the fourth floor in Stockholm looking at the clouds passing by and an old Swedish pop melody came to my mind. I tried to get rid of it but it came back over and over again, so I wrote this thing inspired from that melodic excerpt. And then it stopped, I could listen for something new. It was an interesting rehearsal with Steve where I asked him to play a part with the bass and then following with me in unison. So we found this arrangement that made the recording.