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Article: Book Review

Tony Allen: An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat

Read "Tony Allen: An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat" reviewed by Chris Becker


Tony Allen: An Autobiography Of The Master Drummer Of Afrobeat Michael Veal ISBN: 978-0-8223-5591-5 Duke University Press 2013 First of all, drummers are going to love this book. With so few autobiographies of drummers in print, the publication of Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of ...

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Article: Reassessing

John Coltrane: Kulu Sé Mama

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John Coltrane Kulu Sé Mama Impulse!1967 It is rare to find Kulu Sé Mama on somebody's desert-island list of recordings by saxophonist John Coltrane. Why, is a mystery. Despite the brooding intensity of the cover photo, the performances are accessible and delightful, and, as an artifact, although ...

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Article: Album Review

John Coltrane: Kulu Se Mama

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A vibrant and accessible album from saxophonist John Coltrane's late-middle period, Kulu Se Mama has been only fitfully on catalogue since its original release in early 1967, and has tended to be overlooked in favor of near contemporaneous works like A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) and Ascension (Impulse!, 1966), elements from both of which it reprises. ...

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Article: Rhythm In Every Guise

Frank Butler on Curtis Counce's "Landslide"

Read "Frank Butler on Curtis Counce's "Landslide"" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


“Man, I feel like cookin' this evening,"* Frank Butler proclaimed while setting up his drums in the Contemporary Records studio on October 6, 1956. Over a half-century later, his words still have the ring of absolute truth. The session, led by bassist Curtis Counce and released in 1957 as Landslide, was an incandescent beginning to Butler's ...

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Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: CD1: Joshua; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Baby Won't You Please Come Home; So Near, So Far; Basin Street Blues; Seven Steps to Heaven (take 3); Seven Steps to Heaven (take 5); Summer Night. CD2: Seven Steps to Heaven (rehearsal take); Seven Steps to Heaven; So Near, So Far; Joshua; Introduction by Andre Francis; Autumn Leaves; Milestones; I Thought About You. CD3: Joshua; All of You; Walkin'; Bye Bye Blackbird; Bye Bye (Theme). CD4: Introduction by Mort Fega; Autumn Leaves; So What; Stella By Starlight; Walkin'; All of You; Go-Go (Theme and Announcement).CD5: Introduction by Billy Taylor; All Blues; My Funny Valentine; Joshua; I Thought About You; Four; Seven Steps to Heaven; There is No Greater Love; Go-Go (Theme and Re-Introduction). CD6: Introduction by Teruo Osono; If I Were a Bell; My Funny Valentine; So What; Walkin'; All of You; Go-Go (Theme). CD7: Milestones; Autumn Leaves; So What; Stella By Starlight; Walkin; Go-Go (Theme).

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The Stepper

Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 1978

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Elmo Hope Trio

Label: Contemporary Records
Released: 1960
Track listing: "B's A-Plenty" – 5:47 "Barfly" – 6:18 "Eejah" – 3:55 "Boa" – 6:00 "Something for Kenny" – 6:29 "Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 7:32 "Minor Bertha" – 4:51 "Tranquility" – 2:58

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Trio and Quintet

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1954
Track listing: It’s A Lovely Day Today; Mo is On; Sweet And Lovely; Happy Hour; Hot Sauce; Stars Over Marrakech; Freffie; Carvin’ The Rock; I Remember You; Mo is On [alternate]; Crazy; Abdullah; Chips; Later for You; Low Tide; Maybe So; Crazy [alternate]; So Nice; St. Elmo’s Fire; Vaun Ex.


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