A True Blue Idea

The Danish piano auteur Carsten Dahland the dynamic American trumpetist Tim Hagans meet the acclaimed Swedish double bass player Johnny Åman and the Finnish master drummer Jukkis Uotilaon the new album A Beautiful Blue Moment, now available on Storyville Records. Actually, this rare quartet had never played together, before they gathered at the scene of the historic jazz club Montmartre in Copenhagen and played the music of the moment at three sold out evenings in August 2021.

Jackie McLean - Destination… Out! (1963) {Blue Note Japan RVG Cardboard Sleeve TOCJ-9555 rel 2003}
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Jazz / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Alto Saxophone

Like Eric Dolphy before him, Jackie McLean sought to create a kind of vanguard "chamber jazz" that still had the blues feel and – occasionally – the groove of hard bop, though with rounded, moodier edges. Destination Out! was the album on which he found it. Still working with Grachan Moncur III and Bobby Hutcherson – his direct spiritual connection to Dolphy – McLean changed his rhythm section by employing drummer Roy Haynes and bassist Larry Ridley. This combination proved a perfect balance of the four elements. The program is four tunes, three of which were written by Moncur.

Issued just after his landmark two-week June 1998 gig at the Village Vanguard and subsequent U.S./Canada tour, Chucho Valdйs' first album for Blue Note bears out a lot of the hype surrounding this hugely gifted Cuban pianist. Unlike many of today's younger Cuban keyboard hotshots, Valdйs not only has great technical chops and musical erudition, he manages to stay closely tied to his Cuban rhythmic roots. Thus, he employs a Cuban percussionist Roberto Vizcaino Guillot along with the standard bass (Alain Pйrez Rodriguez) and drums (Raъl Pнсeda Roque), which dramatically increases the possibilities for rhythmic experiments. Valdes more often than not is all over the keyboard, comfortable with everything from Ravel-ian classical complexity to Bill Evans' introspection to Cecil Taylor-like crunches.

V.A. - Obsessions (1992). Erotic music. Bodies in harmony. Songs for making love. Sexy music. Dangerous. Touch, feel, smell, demand. Exploring the curves, following inner desires. Explosive and sensuous.
Dancing Fantasy, Software, G.E.N.E., Megabyte, Mind Over Matter and Peter Seiler.
The booklet contains erotic photographies of Gunter Blum!
V.A. - Rouge & Noir (1993). Erotic music. Bodies in harmony. Red and Black. Songs for making love. Sexy music. Dangerous. Touch, feel, smell, demand. Explosive and senseous. Exploring the curves, following inner desires. Unreleased and remixed erotic songs by: Software, Megabyte, Dancing Fantasy, TeeKay, Blue Knights, etc…