Artist - Tune - Album
Kamasi Washington - Leroy and Lanisha - The Epic
Woody Shaw - Stepping Stone - Stepping Stones
Oliver Jones - Close Your Eyes - Lights of Burgundy
Art Tatum - Isn’t This A Lovely Day - The Tatum Solo Masterpieces, vol.4
Mike Nock, Bennie Maupin, Cecil McBee & Eddie Marshall - Symbiosis - Almanac
Return To Forever - So Long Mickey Mouse - Musicmagic
featuring vocals by Stanley Clarke & Gayle Moran
Barre Phillips - Mountainscape IV - Mountainscapes
Miles Davis - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down - Bitches Brew
King Pleasure - Don’t Get Scared - Moody’s Mood For Love
Joanne Brackeen - Ancient Dynasties - Ancient Dynasty
Stevie Wonder - Too High - Innervisions
Amina Claudine Myers - Do You Wanna Be Saved? - The Circle Of Time
Horace Silver - Togetherness - Silver ‘n Voices
Tower of Power - Squib Cakes - Back to Oakland
Michal Urbaniak - Joy - Serenade for the City
Al Jarreau - Roof Garden - Breakin’ Away

The intro tune for this set is Wes Montgomery's "Bock to Bock"

Playlists and featured album covers for all previous Sets of Jazz Gumbo can be found at:
https://jazzgumbo.blogspot.com/


Wow! This is the first time in forever that I’m managing to post a Set in the same month that it was recorded! A little ridiculous, considering that once, I routinely posted Sets within days of recording them.

A more interesting and relevant fact is that this Set, and the ones that precede and follow it, are virtually all vinyl. Many of my first Sets were vinyl dominant, all the music from the early nineties or earlier. Since then, I’ve aimed to incorporate more music from the late nineties and the current century. Partly, to show the continuity in jazz, and its growth as a genre-crossing philosophy of music, rather than simply a genre itself.

It’s purely accidental that I’ve gone back to my previous show format. My laptop isn’t connecting to the mixing board. I can’t even play Buckshot LeFonque’s “Music Evolution”, the show's theme all these years. I’ve never managed to find a vinyl copy. I could mix it in, but I prefer to post the same show that streams from Radio Regent, with just a little clean-up.

I’m enjoying the vinyl only format. I have such a wealth of great vinyl, and the 50’s-80’s was such an amazing time for musical boundaries both stretching out and falling away, that I don't feel that the diversity of the Sets has suffered.

I hope the less talking is comfortable with you listeners. I haven’t received much input on the point. No complaints about not being able to figure out what’s been played. So I may just stick to it for awhile. I’m so glad to be back at this, as a regular part of my week.

I hope you enjoy the Set! Thank you for your ears!

Thrive!
Kirby