Monday, July 13, 2009

Miles Davis, Live at On The Corner (Supersonic, 1972)


Live recording from September 24th, 1972 at the Philadelphia Quaker Jazz Festival. Not my rip, and I'm embarrassed to admit I don't remember where I got it, but it's a good one.
1. Black Satin 9:31
2. Rated X 15:12
3. Honky Tonk 9:34
4. Right Off 11:44

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Miles Davis, Live in Belgrade, November 7th 1973


This is a great example of the collection of Miles recordings at
elastic rock. Gret blog! Check it out! No track listings. Personnel are
Miles Davis (tpt, org)
Dave Liebman (ss, ts, fl)
Pete Cosey (g, perc)
Reggie Lucas (g)
Michael Henderson (el-b)
Al Foster (d)
James Mtume Forman (cga, perc)

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Sam Rivers, Lazuli (Timeless 1989)


Another great Sam Rivers electric quartet. This time the personnel are:
Sam Rivers: Sax, Flute
Darryll Thompson: Electric Guitar
Real Wesley-Grant: Electric Bass
Steve McCraven: Drums
Recorded in Holland in October 1989. Long out of print and currently selling for silly money.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Michael Gregory Jackson, Heart & Center (Arista 1979)


A personal favorite, Heart & Center was seen by many as a commercial sell-out. Compared to Michael Gregory Jackson's ealier avant-garde efforts, it is slick and commercial, but in an inspired Stevie Wonder way. It's aged very well in my opinion, and sounds funky, off-beat and original. If you like Michael Gregory Jackson, Gifts is up at allthissteam.blogspot.com.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Miles Davis, Olympia 11 Juillet 1973 (Trema France)



Recorded in Paris, July 11, 1973, with Dave Liebman, Pete Cosey, Reggie Lucas, Al Foster, Michael Henderson and Mtume. A bit different sound than from later recordings of this band, and one of the better recordings of this time as well. Sadly, long out of print and selling for silly money now.

Miles Davis, Berlin '73 (Jazz Masters)


Not the best sound quality, but a nice set. Apparently recorded for German television.
Miles Davis : trumpet, organ
Dave Liebman : tenor and soprano saxophone, flute
Pete Cosey : electric guitar
Reggie Lucas : electric guitar
Michael Henderson : electric bass
Al Foster : drums
James "Mtume" Foreman : percussion

Splatter 3 + 2, Fistful of Dewey (Cadence 1992)



Review by Thom Jurek at Allmusic.com:

"Splattter Trio is a freewheeling jazz group who take improvisation to the wall on saxophones, Farfisa organs, guitar, bass, and drums. On this live date in a down joint called the Chameleon in San Francisco, they added another guitarist and percussionist and took as their font of inspiration the notion of change. Playing in a rock club, they throw their usual Splatterbook away and instead played a musical tribute to Miles Dewey Davis, who died a few weeks after the gig. Here are themes from "Jack Johnson," "On the Corner," "Get Up With It," "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down," "Pangea," and "In a Silent Way," taken and turned inside out Splatter style. Here the originals become grooves and funky interludes for deepening pools of collective improvisation that held tight to the hypnosis of Miles' original terrorvision and extrapolated an entirely different music from it over the course of three suites. They evoked the dynamics, the strange modal riffs and drones, and made their own Bitches Brew. Some might call this shallow and a rip, but they'd be wrong, of course. This is what you're supposed to do with great music: become inspired by it and make something of your own. The deep bass and organ grooves here are worth the price of admission alone: dark, funky, sexy, and foreboding. The interplay of guitarists Myles Boisen (Splatter) and Len Patterson (non-Splatter) is truly amazing; nobody plays over anybody else, and these two cats move into double six-string or guitar and bass dialog as the percussionists toe-to-toe it and the saxophonists play lines and vamps across the front. This is trippy, driven jazz-rock at its best."