Posts tagged jazz
Itayab is my favorite track on my brother’s latest album, Ummi, dedicated to our late grandmother. SSAHHA is his North African music ensemble.
Piano - Amino Belyamani
Bass - Sam Minae
Drums - Qasim Naqvi
Daf, Ney - Houman Pourmehdi
Riq, Bendir, Oud - Brahim Fribgane
Stolen Moments, from Oliver Nelson’s The Blues and the Abstract Truth.
Musicians:
Oliver Nelson — alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Eric Dolphy — flute, alto saxophone
George Barrow — baritone saxophone
Freddie Hubbard — trumpet
Bill Evans — piano
Paul Chambers — bass
Roy Haynes — drums
I first posted about Kutiman two years ago. He just posted his latest video mashup yesterday, and it’s sick!
That handsome young man is my brother, Amino Belyamani. He will be performing with Dimi Mint Abba at the 10th Sharjah Biennial in Dubai on March 19. You can also catch him next month in Germany and Austria with his trio, Dawn of Midi. Their debut album, First, has gotten rave reviews.
Nina Simone live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1976 - How It Feels To Be Free
Everybody should be free. ‘Cause if we ain’t, we’re murderous.
I love the nod to Blue Note in this album cover for the compilation “Music For Jazz Dancers” on the UK label Freestyle Records.
I featured one of the songs in this compilation on my radio show a couple of weeks ago. Listen to “Free Hands” by The Brian Lynch & Eddie Palmieri Project on Monfresh Sessions #180.
Sonny Rollins - Decision
An awesome 13-bar minor blues from the album Volume One, with Sonny Rollins (tenor sax), Donald Byrd (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Gene Ramey (bass) and Max Roach (drums). Buy it from Amazon, iTunes or Lala.
For those of you reading this from the Tumblr dashboard, click through to my site to see the album artwork below:
Sonny Clark Trio - Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (2001 24-bit Digital Remaster by Rudy Van Gelder)
My favorite track on this album, originally recorded in 1957, with Sonny Clark on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and “Philly” Joe Jones on drums.
I also love the artwork on this, and many other Blue Note albums. I will be posting more in the future, but in the meantime, you can enjoy some more LP covers on the Vintage Vanguard site, which I found via but does it float.
“ Metaphorically speaking, we throw ourselves upon the bosom of your applause, imbibing its lactate.”
Clark Terry with Thelonious Monk - Argentia. From the 1958 album “In Orbit,” which features Clark Terry on trumpet, Thelonious Monk on piano, Sam Jones on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums.
I really need to get in the habit of using Shazam. I keep forgetting I have such an amazing app on my iPhone. A few days ago, I was watching the premiere of “United States Of Tara” on Showtime, and wanted to know the title of the Thelonious Monk track that was playing. Instead of rewinding and allowing Shazam to identify the music, I embarked on a doomed journey to Googleland. Today, the bulb above my head finally lit up. I played the episode on sho.com, scrolled to the part in question and let Shazam do its magic. 20 seconds later, my iPhone displayed the following:
