On demand jazz library album on the cult french label Neuilly. Really
pleasant album with Guy Boyer on vibes and arrangement. Includes the
deep modal jazz tunes like "Vibra conceptions", "Jazz on vibes" or the
on fast paced "Bongos and Sound" with brilliant drum breaks and killer
vibes solo. This is the Creasound version of the same release on Neuilly
called "Ballade pour un Vibra" with one extra track.
Polish composer, arranger, vocalist and keyboardist Piotr FIGIEL
(1940.04.13 - 2011.12.22) is probably best known for composing music for
other artists, movies, TV, radio and theatrical plays. But in the
1960's he was an active musician himself, and toured Scandinavia with
The Clivers. Later he would concentrate on studio work, as a
collaborator with other artists in one capacity or another or for
recording material for a wide variety of purposes.
Figiel also
recorded and released a couple of solo albums: Piotr in 1971 (also known
as Organ Hammondy) and Music in 1976. Of these two productions it's the
former that will be of interest to fans of progressive rock, especially
if you have a soft touch for jazzrock and fusion. The latter appears to
be more of a purebred pop production, and from some descriptions
apparently more of a compilation in spirit, but issued under Figiel's
name.
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Hewitt was only sixteen when he recorded his first album Jawbones
in the auditorium of the Community School of Music and Arts in Moutain
View, California, where he was an artist in residence. Part of his
mission involved using music as a healing tool for those with
degenerative neurological conditions. Another part, no less personal:
the incessant need to document the songs and ideas welling up in his own
young brain. Jawbones, pressed at Custom-Fidelity Records in Hollywood, California in a run of fifty pieces, paved the way for a second album, Since Washington,
so named because the band had traveled to Washington, DC, to play for
Richard Nixon. For his sophomore album, Hewitt pressed one hundred
pieces.
Winter Winds, his third album, is the most “accessible” of the
three Hewitt records. This is not to say that his previous albums are
esoteric, just to say that this album appeals to those who might want to
dance while having their consciousness expanded. Of the series of 4/4
numbers contained within, “Bada Que Bash,” a modal piece in a
latin-tinged bag, stands out. Vocalists Sonia Valledeparas and Nina
Scheller seem as if they’re speaking in an exotic language, amidst the
band’s cavernous roar. “This is actually organized scan singing,”
Hewitt clarifies. “Instead of incessant, skittly “do wap du bop,” I
provided rhythmic words that sounded like a language.” Hewitt was not
yet twenty when “Winter Winds” saw its small press run disappear into
the ether, awaiting rediscovery decades to come.By Now-Again
Detroit? Chicago? Well, no not at all. This 1968 release comes from a
German band playing some lush and dynamic soul pop with an emotionally
exalted vocal style that reminds a bit of Tom Jones at times. The songs
range from powerfully onward grooving booty shakers to striking melodic
tunes with great chorus lines that enlighten your spirit. When you take a
listen you will realize these folks had a sense for the classic beat
music of just a few years prior to this release and they really manage
to lay down a steaming performance on this style actually already
outdated back then. But since THE SOUL EXPLOSION spice up everything
with a dark and brooding back street club atmosphere at the right
moment, they could do what they want and always sounded exciting and
fresh. I could not have told the difference between these krauts and any
popular British or North American act in their genre. There is passion,
sheer lust, a wild and animalistic drive and an ongoing groove that
will mesmerize you. Technically this is a really solid group that knows
to let loose when it is time to but mostly keeps the energy flow under
control. I am certain that 60s fanatics who love the soul and early rock
fusion of this era will go insane. It might be one of these typical
exploito bands that were only studio projects done by the same musicians
on several occasions for good money to be sold in the bargain bin to a
willing audience. Well, we rather do not think further into that
direction since the music that appears on “Soul fire” strikes your
deepest inner self and sets your spirit aflame. The melodies are amazing
and if you go and check the rhythms you will end up shaking without a
chance to escape the everlasting pulse. This should have been enormously
big. Think of later day ANIMALS, THE FOUR TOPS and the EQUALS all
thrown into a mixer on full throttle, you might get something of a
similar quality. Oh, Baby, c’mon shake it with me, yeah!
From Granadilla Music.
I Called Him Morgan is a 2016 Swedish-American documentary film written and directed by Kasper Collin which gives an account of the life of jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen Morgan, later responsible for his murder in February 1972.
Value :
Beautiful stuff – and a record we never tire of hearing! This album's a
sublime extension of the earlier Brazilian style of the Tamba Trio – in
a set that has them adding a fourth member, and picking up some cool
new sounds from producer Creed Taylor! The set brings the group's
earlier blend of bossa jazz and vocal harmonies into play with Taylor's
spacious sensibilities in the early days of CTI – that stretch when the
label was partnered with A&M Records, in a mode that also echoes
some of the best studio qualities of that imprint too! The songs are
longer than usual – nicely stretched out in a beautiful blend of jazz,
bossa, and voice – and tracks include a classic reading of Luiz Eca's
"The Dolphin", a great take on "Canto De Ossahana", and the tracks
"Flower Girl", "We & The Sea", and "Lemanja"
This LP from Stringtronics offers a genuinely psych/baroque
exploration, that could be considered the missing link between David
Axelrod’s “Song of Innocence” and Ennio Morricone’s Sergio Leone period,
with a light exotic touch. It features an astonishing dynamic 6-track
suite, written and conducted by the versatile virtuoso Barry Forgie.
Stringtronics also gives stunning ethno-lounge music from famous French
composers Nino Nardini & Roger Roger.
