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 

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!!