Clifford Brown and Max Roach - Jordu

Digital Crate Digging Continues per this HumpDay Extravaganza edition, your dude is in the lab chilling!

O-Dog Day Partying earlier but we have other word to do, check out this breakbeat scientific dealing..

..behind the scenes after being out there on I-20 in Atlanta observing the scene from Atlanta Stadium where England beat DR Congo in the FIFA World Cup so what's up? now we're in the lab writing this scripture and playing bongos.

The funky drummer stays drumming, after visualizing the sequence / summing up the consequences now going for what he knows!

We're checking out some of this classic jazz that we had to reload from  Clifford Brown and Max Roach with a track callled Jordu. 

Man, these cats are playing!! check out the players and the track to see what's up / what it do!

• Bass – George Morrow
• Design – Helmut Schiefer
• Drums – Max Roach
• Piano – Richie Powell
• Tenor Saxophone – Harold Land
• Trumpet – Clifford Brown

Donald Byrd - Elijah

Digital Crate Digging Continues as we come through with this Throwback Thursday  / Thankful Thursday edition!

The saga  / struggle continues as we take it back to the future, retro futuristic is how we're living!

I see how others were living, out here spazzing! I advised them to "stop all that fussing and cussing" you'll just blow a fuse! They say some of these jokers are full of negativity, playing that soundtrack from one who'll lose. You need to focus was the advice from Brotha O! sometimes you need to just bounce back and create something better. The arch nemesis was on the premises introducing this and that storm but darkening skies soon clear, confusing a bettor..

..that was betting you would lose! I told you the temperature is rising per this August weather but it's still a cold world as we cool things off with this music! we're checking out some classic jazz from Donald Byrd  with a track called Elijah, 

Check out the players and the track as we shift gears from O-Dog Day Partying to Afternoon Jazzing! this is what's up with a brotha! 

• Arranged By – Duke Pearson
• Bass – Butch Warren
• Directed By [Voices] – Coleridge Perkinson
• Drums – Lex Humphries
• Guitar – Kenny Burrell
• Piano – Herbie Hancock
• Producer – Alfred Lion
• Recorded By [Recording By] – Rudy Van Gelder
• Tenor Saxophone – Hank Mobley
• Trumpet – Donald Byrd
• Vibraphone [Vibes] – Donald Best 

McCoy Tyner - Passion Dance

Sunday Jazz Continues, we're trying to find our bearings on this Sunday Night after "springing forward" per Daylight Saving Time!

The saga / struggle continues but we'll rock these venues with the sound and this insight! in a minute we'll be right on time!!

Like the Brothers Johnson, check out how these brothas are responding to the ongoing chaos and mayhem! 

Check out how we're responding: refusing to take a loss like College Basketball March Madness participants, we're in it to win it, we'll keep playing!!

Check out this classic jazz we're coming through / dipping through  listening to Passion Dance by McCoy Tyner, one of my favorite piano players!!

Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone); Ron Carter (bass); Elvin Jones (drums) are his "partners in crime" ....check this out from these true "prime time players".

Ahmad Jamal - Swahililand

Sunday Jazz Continues, errr wait a minute; Digital Crate Digging Continues, I’m trying to get ahead of myself!

Was O-Dog Day Partying but switching gears!! the saga / struggle continues, but we’re in it to win it /  going on with our bad selves!

 We’re in our remote outpost out off of I-20 in Atlanta behind the scenes of this blog; checking out this profound / epic / classic track called Swahililand  performed by Ahmad Jamal..

This is from his Jamal plays Jamal album from 1974...classic material cousin!! what? I’m trying to tell y’all..

Checking the files, we noticed that the link was broken so we had to “holla back”.

We had to bring it back, it's right on time for Afternoon Jazzing!! check out the players and the track...

• Ahmad Jamal - piano, electric piano
• Jamil Nasser - bass
• Frank Gant - drums
• Azzedin Weston - congas

John Coltrane & Don Cherry - Cherryco

Sunday Jazz uhh I mean Digital Crate Digging Continues!!

Trying not to spaz, I started in one direction and ended up in another!

We're checking out some of this classic jazz from John Coltrane and Don Cherry, with a cut called Cherryco. Let's Go!!

Ray Charles and Milt Jackson - Soul Brothers

Digital Crate Digging Continues on this Throwback / Thirsty Thursday, in the midst of #JazzAppreciationMonth!! 

We're checking out classic soul jazz from Ray Charles and Milt Jackson with a track called Soul Brothers. Check out the players and the track. Let's Go!!

• Bass – Oscar Pettiford
• Drums – Connie Kay
• Guitar – Skeeter Best
• Piano – Ray Charles
• Tenor Saxophone – Billy Mitchell
• Vibraphone [Vibraharp] – Milt Jackson

Stanley Turrentine - Hey Jude

Sunday Jazz Continues!! We're checking out  some soul jazz from Mister T aka Stanley Turrentine with his version of the Beatles Hey Jude. Check out the all star players and the track..

• Arranged By – Thad Jones
• Bass, Electric Bass – Bob Cranshaw
• Drums – Mel Lewis
• Flugelhorn, Trumpet – Burt Collins
• Flute, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Jerry Dodgion
• Flute, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone – Jerome Richardson
• French Horn – Brooks Tillotson , Richard Berg 
• Guitar –  Kenny Burrell
• Piano – Herbie Hancock
• Producer – Duke Pearson
• Tenor Saxophone, Leader – Stanley Turrentine
• Trombone – Jimmy Cleveland
• Violin – Gene Orloff

Willis Jackson - Bar Wars

Digital Crate Digging Continues per this HumpDay Extravaganza!! We're still checking out some soul jazz / classic jazz from Willis Jackson  with a track called Bar Wars. He's got some all star soldiers going to war with him!! Check out the players and the track...

• Congas – Buddy Caldwell
• Drums – Idris Muhammad
• Guitar – Pat Martino
• Organ – Charlie Earland
• Saxophone [Tenor] – Willis Jackson

Art Blakey - Dat Dere

Digital Crate Digging Continues!! Oh Oh!! I've gotten in a classic jazz mood!! I'm checking out  Art Blakey with a track called  Dat Dere!!  Check out the players and the track...

• Bass – Jymie Merritt
• Drums – Art Blakey
• Piano – Bobby Timmons
• Tenor Saxophone – Wayne Shorter
• Trumpet – Lee Morgan 

Milt Jackson ‎– Plenty, Plenty Soul

Sunday Jazz, I mean digital crate digging continues!! We're checking out this hard bop / classic jazz from  Milt Jackson ‎– with a track called  Plenty, Plenty Soul, from his 1966 album of the same name.

 This is some *beatnik*  type of music. *Yall don't know nothing about this* is what my Pops would say!! Check out the players and the track...

• Alto Saxophone – Ronnie Peters
• Arranged By – Quincy Jones
• Baritone Saxophone – Sahib Shihab
• Bass – Percy Heath
• Drums – Art Blakey
• Piano – Horace Silver
• Tenor Saxophone – Frank Foster
• Trombone – Jimmy Cleveland
• Trumpet – Joe Newman
• Vibraphone [Vibraharp] – Milt Jackson
• Written-By – Milt Jackson , Quincy Jones 

Ron Holloway - How High The Moon

Digital Crate Digging Continues; I was digging deep for this one; I was even rocking that Hardhat with the lantern on top like a gold or coal miner!!

We're checking out some classic / straight ahead jazz from former Gil Scott Heron sideman / saxophone player Ron Holloway - with a track called How High The Moon. Check out the players and the track. These cats are laying it down!!

• Bass – Tommy Cecil
• Drums – Byron Landham 
• Guitar – Paul Bollenback 
• Tenor Saxophone / Producer – Ron Holloway

Paul Chambers - Bass Region

Digital Crate Digging Continues; we're checking out some classic jazz from  bassist Paul Chambers -with a track called Bass Region. Check out the players and the track..

• Bass – Paul Chambers 
• Drums – Lex Humphries
• Piano – Wynton Kelly
• Tenor Saxophone – Yusef Lateef
• Trombone – Curtiss Fuller
• Trumpet – Tommy Turrentine

Ramsey Lewis - "Eternal Journey"

Digital Crate Digging Continues during this Jazz Appreciation Month!! we're checking out some Ramsey Lewis  bringing us a track called "Eternal Journey" . Check out the players and the track..

• Ramsey Lewis - piano
• Cleveland Eaton - bass, arranger
• Maurice White - drums
• Charles Stepney - arranger

Chicago Underground Duo ‎–Lifelines

Afternoon Jazz Continues!! we're checking out the  Chicago Underground Duo ‎– with a track called Lifelines. This is from their  Axis And Alignment project. 

Chicago Underground Duo is  Rob Mazurek (cornet , electronics , piano) and Chad Taylor (percussion , vibraphone , guitar). Check  them out!!!
 

 

Chicago Underground Duo - Two Concepts for the Storage Light

Sunday Jazz Continues!! we're checking out some abstract jazz from the  Chicago Underground Duo  with a track called Two Concepts for the Storage Light. Check out the players and the track...

  Personnel : Rob Mazurek (cornet , electronics , piano) , Chad Taylor (percussion , vibraphone , guitar)

 

McCoy Tyner - Makin' Out

Sunday Jazz Continues; checking out some of this classic jazz funk / free jazz  from  McCoy Tyner - with a track called Makin' Out. Check out the players and the track...

• Composed By – McCoy Tyner
• Drums – Wilby Fletcher
• Percussion – Guillerme Franco
• Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Azar Lawrence
•  Bass – Joony Booth

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"

Sunday Jazz Continues; checking out this classic jazz from The   Cannonball Adderley Quintet - with a track called "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"....check out the players and the track!

Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Cannonball Adderley (alto saxophone); Nat Adderley (cornet); Joe Zawinul (acoustic and electric pianos); Victor Gaskin (bass); Roy McCurdy (drums).

 

Duke Ellington • Charlie Mingus • Max Roach ‎– Money Jungle

Digital Crate Digging Continues; checking out this hard bop / classic jazz from Duke Ellington • Charlie Mingus • Max Roach ‎– with the track called Money Jungle. 

This was recorded at a time when Duke Ellington was frustrated with life / the music industry. He supposedly gave Max Roach and Mingus  "a lead sheet that just gave the basic melody and harmony", plus a visual image described by the pianist: one example was, "crawling around on the streets are serpents who have their heads up; these are agents and people who have exploited artists. Play that along with the music". 

Fast forward to today; we're still living in a money jungle, with people running around trying to survive, exploited by governments and corporations.

 Black Friday?   Small Business Saturday? Cyber Monday / Cyber Week? man please!!  Anyway!! let me get off the pulpit and let the music play!! Check it out!!