I think the most stereotypical example would be the song The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan. That spawned off a lot of imitation in the mid 60’s fusing soul/R&B/jazz. Stanley T, Grant Green, Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver made music in the Soul Jazz genre, just to name a few.
That Monk Higgins album art is b-e-a-uttttiful. Thanks for sharing, I wonder if we'll be getting something off of this list then. I just picked up an older reissue of Freddie Hubbard's - Backlash, kind of a forgettable album imo spare "Little Sunflower"
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Jazz began life as social music (but not #SOCIALMUSIC… sorry, Don Cheadle). The advent of bebop had drawn some chin-strokers into the audience, but dancing was still most of jazz's raison d'être until the late 1950s, when intrepid early explorers of the music's harshest angles — John Coltrane...magazine.vinylmeplease.com
Oh man! I love Backlash! I have an original mono pressing. But yes Little Sunflower is the best and most enduring tune of the lot.
Wow, surprises me that The Sidewinder falls into the soul jazz category. That to me has been the poster child of just "hard-bop" but to be fair, I know nothing of jazz's subgenres and classify anything that makes me sport an enhanced "Stank Face" as hard-bop lol.
The S/T track on the Sidewinder touches upon soul-jazz/boogaloo as its basis but I personally would say that the album as a whole is more hard-bop.
Irrespective of quality these are two of my favorite Jimmy Smith records based strictly on album covers.
Yeah - you are nuts. On the Que-Tee is one of the great all time burners that does *NOT* get enough love. There should be more covers of that tune by every Hard and Post Bop band out there. James Frikkin' Spaulding on that record just kills it from cover to cover.
*Angrily pulls Backlash out of Kallax and slams onto turntable for a hefty "What am I missing listening session"*
Feel like Blue Note used some language recently that alluded to outside parties still getting exclusive access to certain Blue Note titles. I imagine VMP x Blue Notes relationship has been a successful one, so I'm hoping we'll still see the odd BN here and there
Love the passion here. Just go right to On The Que-Tee, already.
Where did you see Freedom Rider was going to be a TP release? Its not on the Blue Note page. Either way if it is a good jazz release I might be tempted to resign up.
Agreed - they finally figured out how to do it properly once MMJ wound up so I see them holding onto their options. I do wish they would do Schizophrenia, though, since I passed on the Anthology given the QC issues and this would be a great Tone Poet.
It was hinted on the Hoffman boards by the guy who seems to have all the info as one Joe Harley said they want to work on once the VMP rights expire.
Hmmm, might be willing to let go of my VMP copy if the TP version comes out in 2022
Had to make a stop at Little Sunflower, on The Que-Tee rn and I must admit, its a great fiery track. I think Side B is much stronger than Side A. Everything minus Little Sunflower on Side A sounds like it was trying to be the next Sidewinder but flopped lol.
Thank you for mentioning Big John Patton! He is my favorite and none of the Tone Poets yet have featured him. I don't know what the hell is going on, but I need them to start pressing some of his records. We're on like the 5th Grant Green TP and still nothing for Big John Patton. According to Wikipedia, he's the bandleader on 11 Blue Note albums and sideman on another 8.
I'm completely unfamiliar. Where should I start??
I was after a copy of Schizophrenia for YEARS, I lost out on so may auction listing and store purchases. Finally picked it up last year so it would be just my luck that it would be chosen
'Oh Baby!' is fantastic and there is a decent reissue by Elemental which I picked up a while ago.
