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Patty Waters: Sings
by Trevor MacLaren
Patty Waters Sings ESP-Disk 1965 Independent labels like Bernard Stollmann's ESP-Disk lacked sufficient funds to lend much of a push behind their roster. Because of this fact, much of the label's talent has been neglected or left to a cult following. It seems hard to believe today--with a ...
Escalator Over The Hill
by Trevor MacLaren
The late '60s and early '70s played a great role in the development of youth culture and politics, but it was also a heady age for jazz, where the great changes of funk, rock, and counterculture seeped into improvised music and changed it forever. Not only were the established movers and shakers of jazz creating a ...
Sonny Sharrock: Ask the Ages
by Trevor MacLaren
Sonny SharrockAsk the AgesAxiom1991 Although Charlie Christian introduced the electric guitar to jazz in 1939, everyone playing the instrument in jazz kept his sound and ideas embodied in their playing until the late '60s. During this period the instrument became a vital part of the emerging fusion ...
James Chance and the Contortions: Buy
by Trevor MacLaren
James Chance and the Contortions Buy (a/k/a Buy The Contortions) ZE 1979 Since the 1960s jazz has played an important part in the deconstruction of western music. Jazz has lent its ideologies to a variety of new musical forms that have grown into some of the most interesting ...
Albert Ayler: New Grass
by Trevor MacLaren
Albert Ayler New Grass Impulse! 1968 If there is one word that is poison in the minds of jazz fans and critics, it's sellout. If any musician, for whatever reason, decides to change their sound in a way that could be considered commercial, they have committed the deadliest ...
Archie Shepp: Attica Blues
by Trevor MacLaren
Archie Shepp Attica Blues Impulse! 1972 In November of 2004, the world stage is set on the American election. In a post-9/11 world the masses have become paranoid, tense and angry. At the forefront is George W. Bush's foreign policy. Thirty years ago artists found themselves in a similar plight ...
Miles Davis: In a Silent Way
by Trevor MacLaren
Miles Davis In a Silent Way Columbia 1969Recording in February 1969, Miles Davis seemed to pick up the vibe of what was going to go down that crazy summer. It was a tumultuous time as the sixties came to a close. First came the Manson Family, then the ...
Anthony Braxton: 3 Compositions of New Jazz
by Trevor MacLaren
Anthony Braxton 3 Compositions of New Jazz Delmark 1968 In the 1960s a new fuse had been lit under the ass of jazz. As musicians of the bop era drove out hard bop, free jazz and modal works, avant-garde was slowly taking root as well. Growing from the seeds of ...
Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch
by Trevor MacLaren
Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch Blue Note 1964 Being a Charles Mingus fanatic, I often ask the question, “Are you into Eric Dolphy?" To my appalled surprise, more often than not I get the response “Who?" That, my dear fellow jazzites, is totally unacceptable! For those of the ...
Herbie Hancock: Future Shock
by Trevor MacLaren
Herbie Hancock Future Shock Columbia 1983 As with Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come , the title Future Shock says it all. With this record Herbie Hancock busted open jazz in a way that no one could have expected. It may have taken ten or twenty years for ...
