" Mr. Sanifu Al Hall Jr. : The Consummate Musician "
AL Hall Jr. is that uncommon individual: the consummate musician or musician's musician. He has literally done it all. From session work on the trombone to touring and recording with some of the best musicians of the previous century - Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Freddie Hubbard, Sammy Davis Jr. for starters, Hall has also played a critical role in recording and producing musical projects as much as composing, arranging and performing. Accordingly, Journey Of An Aesthete is happy to talk with him.
Extended Look Inside the Episode with Mitch:
In a very real sense having Sanifu Al Hall Jr. on my show at this early date is perfection in scheduling because as a man, musician and artist he exemplifies everything this podcast is about.
He is consummate musician who has mastered and played in every musical style. He has played trombone with some of the most important artists of the 20th century. Indeed he was in the Ray Charles Orchestra in the years of the early 1970s which was one of the great big bands of that era. He has toured with the great Marvin Gaye in the late 70s and was part of Stevie Wonder's Secret life Of Plants Tour. And that is just for starters. He is a composer and producer, a key member of the Black Jazz label (Gene Russell's label), one of the important jazz labels of the 1970s, contributing arrangements and compositions as much as his own trombone mastery on recording sessions.
He is also a true audiophile and was and is an innovator in recording technology and the arts of studio recording more generally. A musician's musician, he is is also one of the few musicians I know of to work in both straight ahead jazz contexts as well as RnB and dance music with equal facility as well as wind ensemble and classical.
He has done it all.
He also happened to write music for and produce for one of my favorite brass (trumpet and flugelhorn) players Freddie Hubbard. We will talk about his defiance about musical boxes and categories and much more. Moat recently we are lucky to have released some older sessions he conducted of some of his soul infused compositions, in an ensemble called the Cosmos Dwellerz Arkestra I believe in a couple of cases this is the first time the tracks have been released.
We are happy to welcome... Sanifu Al Hall Jr.
Links to Al's Blogs:
https://alhalljr.wordpress.com/author/sanifualhalljr/
Links to Al's works:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/480312-Al-Hall-2?page=1
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7222344-Sanifu-Al-Hall-Jr https://www.jamendo.com/artist/360061/sanifu https://cosmosdwellerzarkestra.bandcamp.com/ https://www.reverbnation.com/aljonimusic
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