Artist - Tune - Album
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay - Red Clay
Hugh Masekela - In the Market Place - I Am Not Afraid
Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good - Feels So Good
Angie Stone & Calvin Richardson - More Than A Woman - Mahogany Soul
Pat Martino - Pyramidal Vision - Joyous Lake
Jazz Passengers - Strange Love - Deranges & Decomposed
Jazz Passengers - In No Languages - Deranged & Decomposed
dj Cheb i Sabbah - Kese Kese (Sarangi Mix) - MahaMaya – Shri Durga Remix
Tony Williams - Eris - The Joy of Flying
Santana - Guajira - Santana III
Chick Corea & Return to Forever - 500 Miles High - Light as a Feather
Stevie Wonder - Flower Power - The Secret Life of Plants
Vital Information - Sixth Sense - Ray of Hope
Horace Silver - Song for My Father - Song for My Father
Jack DeJohnette - John McKee - Parallel Realities
Anita Baker - Caught Up in the Rapture - Rapture
Chaka Khan - Them There Eyes - Echoes of an Era
Buddy Miles - Joe Tex - A Message to the People

This Set is introduced by Buckshot LeFonque's "Music Evolution".
Playlists from all previous Sets of Jazz Gumbo are at:
jazzgumbo.blogspot.ca


Here's a Replay of an old Set that I've enjoyed myself recently, along with the original notes:

The “Masterworks” of Set 18 begin with Return to Forever’s “500 Miles High”. Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Joe Farrell, Flora Purim and the Great percussionist Airto Moreira (whom I forgot to credit during the broadcast) deliver a piece that, 30+ years after first hearing it, continues to pull me completely into it’s richly textured soundscape. They flesh it out with solos that are technically brilliant and emotively lush.

Also in this category of tunes, that create their own unique sonic pocket and then fill it up, are Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father” and DeJohnette’s “John McKee”, which features Pat Metheny and Herbie Hancock. I‘ll slide in Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay” right behind these other three; can’t deny what a compelling piece it is.

I love presenting lesser known works by artists with a long list of hits – works that would be much better known if not for those hits. In this set, I point to Stevie Wonder’s “Flower Power”, to Santana’s “Guajira” and to Masekela’s “In the Market Place”, all favorites of mine.

Artists I’m presenting on Jazz Gumbo for the first time include dj Cheb i Sabbah, who does a wonderful amalgam of traditional Indian music with Club music and Electronica. There’s also the Jazz Passengers, who combine the zany and the funky with straight ahead, driving numbers, reminiscent of Frank Zappa or George Duke. Then There’s Angie Stone, whose duet with Calvin Richardson is a sweet, soul throwback. And finally, Buddy Miles delivers a big, brassy and rollicking tribute to 60’s soul singer “Joe Tex”, to close things out.

Thrive!
Kirby Obsidian