Greg Ware

Grant Green - Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry's (2018) {Resonance Records HCD-2034 rec 1975} (Complete Artwork)
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© 1975, 2018 Resonance Records | HCD-2034
Jazz / Soul Jazz / Jazz Funk / Guitar

Resonance's Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry's presents recordings made on September 5, 1975 at the Vancouver, British Columbia club Oil Can Harry's. Grant Green spent much of his final years on the road, but after he left Blue Note in 1974 he wasn't recorded much: just two other records, both studio sessions. Slick! represents his latest-known live recording, and it undercuts the conventional wisdom that the guitarist frittered away his final years.

Milton Marsh - Monism (2016) {Strata East-Manufactured Recordings MFG-036 rec 1973-74}
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© 1975, 2016 Strata East / Manufactured Recordings | SES-19758 / MFG-036
Jazz / Spiritual Jazz / Post Bop / Modern Big Band / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone

Rare spiritual jazz by reed player Milton Marsh – one of the harder-to-find albums on Strata East – and one of just a couple incredible records to Marsh's name! Obscurity aside, this is prime Strata East – with some sprawling moments in a larger band formation that go just far out enough, but an overall approach that's pretty inside, very much in the label's strong 70s soul jazz tradition. There's a pretty large cast of players in action, including some legendary ones like saxophonist David Ware, percussionist Greg Bandy, Cedric Lawson on piano and others. Titles include "Vonda's Tune", the incredible "Monism" with its spoken word excerpt from Hazrat Inayat Khan's Sufi Message, nicely read by Marsh himself over an amazing mix of soulful strings and tense interplay, plus "Metamorphosis", "Community Music", "Sabotage 3 Preparations" and "Ode to Nzinga". A lost masterpiece!

John Zorn - John Zorn's Cobra, Live at The Knitting Factory (1995) {Knitting Factory Works KFW124 rec 1992}
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© 1992, 1995 John Zorn / Knitting Factory Works | KFW 124
Jazz / Avant-Garde / Structured Improvisation / Modern Composition

Recorded during twelve separate performances of John Zorn's "Cobra" during 1992, "John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory" presents an extraordinary mix of performances, with different stagings by different groups and an absolutely stunning array of performers and environments.

Vernon Burch - When I Get Back Home (1977) {2013 Remastered & Expanded Reissue - Big Break Records CDBBR 0242}
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© 1977, 2013 Columbia / Sony Music / Big Break Records / Cherry Red | CDBBR 0242
R&B / Soul

One of the coolest, grooviest albums ever from Vernon Burch – an overlooked 70s soul genius who worked with countless others in the decade, and cut a handful of gems on his own! The set may well be Vernon's best, as it's got this really wonderful approach that mixes funky elements, jazzy vibes, and lots of other warm touches – more than enough to put the record in the same great space as 70s classics by artists like Leon Ware or Ronnie McNeir! Vernon's vocals are wonderful – soaring, but laidback too – and the arrangements have some great jazzy touches on keyboards and guitar, almost in a way that echoes the best modes of Stevie Wonder. A definite gem from the rare groove generation.