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Grachan Moncur III Octet: Exploration

Read "Exploration" reviewed by John Kelman


It's remarkable how time changes the relative position of musical innovation. When trombonist Grachan Moncur III appeared on the scene with a series of Blue Note appearances including his own Evolution and Some Other Stuff , as well as alto saxophonist Jackie McLean's One Step Beyond , Destination...Out! , Hipnosis and About Soul , thankfully reissued ...

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Mosaic Select 1

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: DISC ONE: 1. Saturday And Sunday, 2. Frankenstein, 3. Blue Rondo, 4. Ghost Town, 5. Love And Hate, 6. Esoteric, 7. Kahlil The Prophet, 8. Riff Raff DISC TWO: 1. Saturday And Sunday (alternate take), 2. Air Raid, 3. Evolution, 4. The Coaster, 5. Monk In Wonderland, 6. Conversion Point, 7. Erdu, 8. Soul DISC THREE: 1. Hipnosis, 2. Slow Poke, 3. The Breakout, 4. Back Home, 5. The Reason Why, 6. Gnostic, 7. Thandiwa, 8. The Twins, 9. Nomadic

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Grachan Moncur III: Mosaic Select 1

Read "Mosaic Select 1" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


We take it for granted these days, with packages as large as 18 discs (the Bill Evans Verve box) or even 20 discs (the Complete Miles Davis at Montreux), but back about 20 years ago when Mosaic Records started looking at comprehensive reissues, such massive surveys were all but a pipe dream. For better or worse, ...

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Article: Interview

A Fireside Chat With Grachan Moncur III

Read "A Fireside Chat With Grachan Moncur III" reviewed by AAJ Staff


There are paths we take in life that are forever. Life is unforgiving and no one in jazz personifies that better than Grachan Moncur III. It took me over a year just to track down Grachan. And because of health issues, another year for him to sit down with the Roadshow. Allow me to be kind ...

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Live in New York

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing: Keep Your Heart Right; Acute Motelitis; Steam; Pazuzu; We Are the Blues; Ujamma; Bamako; Slide by Slide; D.

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Evolution

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1997

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Grachan Moncur III: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Evolution utilizes the excellent front line of Jackie McLean's working group of the early Sixties: McLean on alto sax, Moncur on trombone, and Bobby Hutcherson on vibes. Extra spice comes from the addition of trumpeter Lee Morgan, while Bob Cranshaw's bass and Tony Williams' drums represent a standard Blue Note “out" rhythm section of the time. ...

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New Africa

Label: Lunar Module Records
Released: 1982


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