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Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: January 1975 (Livelove Series Vol 1)

Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2015
Track listing: Bird Fingers; Diedra; Gratitude "A So Low"; Low Lee Tah; Funky Waltz; Suite (Entrance / Repose / Exit); Julie la Belle; The Other Side; Tamari; Untitled Thoughts; Adam Smasher; The Eleventh House Blues.

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June 1977 (livelove Series Vol 2)

Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2015
Track listing: Out of the Night Came You; Sophisticated Hippie; Barbara; Incentive; In Pursuit of the 27th Man; Song for My Father.

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Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: January 1975 (Livelove Series Vol 1)

Read "Larry Coryell & The Eleventh House: January 1975 (Livelove Series Vol 1)" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Guitarist Larry Coryell is unquestionably one of the pioneers of jazz/rock fusion, incorporating rock elements as early as the mid-1960s with the group The Free Spirits, and later with vibraphonist Gary Burton. He never attained the recognition of many who followed, but the Eleventh House was an attempt to attract the same audience as groups like ...

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Horace Silver Quintet: June 1977 (livelove Series Vol 2)

Read "June 1977 (livelove Series Vol 2)" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


When the Horace Silver Quintet took the stage in Bremen in June, 1977, Silver was nearing the end of his long association with Blue Note Records. Much of the band's book was drawn from recent albums: the title tune from In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note, 1973), and two each from Silver 'N Brass ...

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FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY!

Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2012
Track listing: T (Beautiful Young'n); Astar; Ensaslayi; I (Sister Young'n); Corn in Sun + T (Moon); The Stele Stolen and Broken is Reclaimed; N + R (Love is Friends); Rocks Sub Amba.

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Tough Tenors Again 'N' Again

Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2012
Track listing: Again 'N' Again; Tin Tin Deo; If I Had You; Jim Dawg; When We Were One; Gigi.

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Cecil Taylor: FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY!

Read "FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY! FLY!" reviewed by John Kelman


83 years old and approaching ninety releases as a leader, pianist Cecil Taylor's place in the history of jazz may already rest assured, but he's more cited than seen these days. He may not come up as a primary influence as often as usual suspects Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner or Herbie Hancock, but in ...

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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin Quintet: Tough Tenors Again 'N' Again

Read "Tough Tenors Again 'N' Again" reviewed by John Kelman


It's been over a year since Promising Music's last series of lovingly remastered and repackaged titles from the classic MPS catalog of the 1960s/70s, but they're back with two 2012 reissues that, once again, demonstrate the breadth and depth of a German label that ran the gamut from straight-ahead to fusion, and from down-and-dirty blues to ...

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Cup Full of Dreams

Label: Promising Music/MPS
Released: 2011
Track listing: Runnin' Away; Hattie's Bathtub; Bad Feet; Cup Full of Dreams; Generation of Vipers.

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Don "Sugar Cane" Harris: Cup Full of Dreams

Read "Cup Full of Dreams" reviewed by John Kelman


While Sugar Cane's Got the Blues (MPS, 1972; Reissued Promising Music, 2008), teamed the violinist with Europeans including Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal, German keyboardist Wolfgang Dauner and British (though, with a life-changing accident looming, not for long) drummer Robert Wyatt, Cup Full of Dreams finds Don “Sugar Cane" Harris back on American turf, with a group ...


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