Artist - Tune - Album

Ramsey Lewis - Les Fleur - Maiden Voyage
Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus - Pithecanthropus Erectus
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! - Stand!
Tania Maria - Sangria - The Real Tania Maria: Wild!
John Coltrane - Afro-Blue - The Best of John Coltrane
Flower Travellin’ Band - Satori – Part II - Satori
Cleo Laine - Hi-Heel Sneakers - I Am A Song
Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before - Where Have ... You Before
Return to Forever - Song to the Pharoah Kings - Where Have I Known You Before
Cassandra Wilson - I Thought You Knew - Point of View
Courtney Pine - The 37th Chamber - Modern Day Jazz Stories
Tom Waits - Way Down In The Hole - Big Time
Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Delilah - Jordu
Ramsey Lewis - Party Time - Up Pops Ramsey Lewis

An archive of all previous Sets is available at: jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca


How about Tania Maria? I’m surprised that she isn’t more celebrated. I saw her live, once: Seattle, ’86, a festival in a park, one hot, summer day. I’d never heard of her and she just took the stage and the crowd and romped and rollicked for an hour! Amazing stuff. Yet, I’ve only just got my second album by her, as I comb the second hand stores and yard sales. And I never hear her name on Jazz radio.

I’m always discovering new evidence that the world is just that way: you miss almost everything from a distance; highlights and headlines alone don’t tell you very much. About anything. You just have to get in close.

There are brilliant people everywhere, brimming over with creativity, and they offer new ways of feeling alive, and of seeing the colors and shapes of the world, and they sparkle us with insights that shake us in our shoes when we are stumbled into them.

Let us celebrate sound! With Tania and Clifford and Cleo and Sly.

And how about that Return to Forever!?

Let the music begin…


Kirby Obsidian