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Nathan Davis Quintet: The Hip Walk
by Ken Dryden
There are numerous examples of talented American jazz musicians who had long careers but were overlooked by critics, broadcasters and much of the jazz audience, often because they spent decades as full time jazz educators, which limited their opportunities to tour in support of their recordings. Nathan Davis, primarily known as a tenor and soprano saxophonist, ...
Individual Choice
Label: MPS
Released: 2023
Track listing: Computer Incantations For World Peace; Far From The Beaten Paths; In Spiritual Love; Eulogy To Oscar
Romero;
Nostalgia; Individual Choice; In Spite Of All.
No Absolute Time
Label: MPS
Released: 2023
Track listing: No Absolute Time; Savannah; Lost Illusions; Dance Of The Spirits; Forever Together; Caracas; The African
Spirit; Speak
Out; Blue Mambo; The Child In You.
Behind The Tea Chronicles
By Ed Motta
Label: MPS
Released: 2023
Track listing: Newsroom Customers; Slumberland; Safely Far; Gaslighting Nancy; Of Good Strain; Quatermass Has Told Us; Buddy Longway; Shot In
The Park; Deluxe Refuge; Tolerance On High Street; Confrere's Exile.
Jean-Luc Ponty: No Absolute Time
by Peter Rubie
When we talk about world music, we often use the phrase in quiet desperation to describe music that defies familiarity and our expectations but still appeals to us. Its very newness is often both slightly disturbing and refreshing at the same time. Two years before No Absolute Time was released in 1993, Jean-Luc Ponty ...
Jean-Luc Ponty: Individual Choice
by Peter Rubie
By 1982, jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty had established an enviable reputation as a pioneer in jazz-rock and jazz fusion. He began as a young bebop player in the late 1950s with little interest in becoming another swing or gypsy style violinist. It was the sheets of sound" music of John Coltrane that spoke loudest to him. ...
Jean-Luc Ponty: Open Mind
by Peter Rubie
If Individual Choice was the sketchbook of Jean-Luc Ponty's (JLP) decision to take his music in a new direction, Open Mind (1984), released the following year, was a deeper exploration of the emerging world of synthesizers and sequencers and their impact on live (studio) performance. Here, complex rhythmic patterns shift in the background while new sounds ...
Common Ground
By Robben Ford
Label: MPS
Released: 2022
Track listing: Ever Ready Sunday; Crabshaw Don’t Care; Sentimental Mood; Hearts of Havana; Common Ground; Passaic; Stanley; Dennis Menace; The Little Boxer.
Various Artists: Nicola Conte presents Cosmic Forest: The Spiritual Sounds of MPS
by Chris M. Slawecki
A labor of love, Cosmic Forest was compiled by Italian musician, producer and DJ Nicola Conte to both revisit and present to a new audience Conte's favorite spiritual jazz" recordings from MPS Records' 1965--'75 catalog. Eight of these thirteen pieces came from albums released as part of the MPS label's mid-1970s Jazz Meets the World" series ...