Artist - Tune - Album
Cleveland Eaton - John’s Groove - Taurus
Baaba Maal - Soukanayo - Nomad Soul
Cassandra Wilson - Closer To You - Thunderbird
Herbie Hancock - Riot - Speak Like A Child
Marquis Hill - King Legend - Modern Flows EP, Vol. 1
Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty, Biréli Lagrène - Paradigm Shift - D-Stringz
Gregory Porter & Lalah Hathaway - Insanity - Take Me To The Alley
Howard Johnson & Gravity - Yesterdays - Gravity!!!
Phronesis - Walking Dark - Walking Dark
Sarah Vaughan - Everyday I Have The Blues - Sassy Swings Again
Victor Wooten - Cupid - Trypnotyx
Horace Silver - Que Pasa - Song For My Father
The ode to musical styles past and present that introduces Jazz Gumbo in “Music Evolution” by Branford Marsalis and Buckshot Lefonque.
Playlists for all past Sets of Jazz Gumbo will be found at
jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca
Question: Didn't that cover of "Yesterdays" by Howard Johnson & Gravity just Blow You Away!?! Did you suspect that a Tuba could sound so sweet? Let alone 6 of them?!?
Thanks to Keith Coston in Detroit and his Podcast, Jazz Renaisance. He puts out great Sets, through which I’ve been introduced to a number of newer artists, including Marquis Hill and Phronesis who are included in this Set.
There’s such a wealth of great talent and great music out there, that friendly guides with similar tastes help us to the artists that will speak to us most deeply. So thanks to this community of sharing people, spreading the love.
Most importantly, Thanks to the Musicians! This is pure amateurism on my part – sharing incredible art because I love it. And I hope that this sharing benefits those who pour their entire lives into it, especially those lesser known music makers, like Cleveland Eaton and Howard Johnson, and the side-players, orchestras and choruses.
In this world of the 1% and the 99%, the arts world is imbalanced like any other. A precious few musicians live in luxury and renown, while the great multitudes of others – sometimes as great as the revered – share their gifts in obscurity, or lack the opportunity of even that. I’m thinking more these days about how the Arts benefit me, and about how I support Art, or whether I even do that, in its many forms.
Thrive!
Kirby Obsidian
ps - I seem to have become absent minded about what I've recently played. So yes, the Sarah Vaughan piece was played just two Sets ago.
