Coltrane Half Note

Benny Golson - The Athens Sessions (2000) {Reissue 2008 El Capitan 2201556062}
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© 2000, 2008 El Capitan / Legend | 2201556062
Jazz / Hard Bop / Post-Bop / Mainstream Jazz / Saxophone

Born on 25 January 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), Benny Golson was introduced to music's various facets as a child. His trajectory as a professional tenor saxophone player was initiated in 1951 when he joined Bull Moose Jackson's R&B band. His acquaintance with Tadd Dameron at that time was to be of major influence on his future musical writing. The mid-fifties found Benny Colson playing in bands led by Dameron, Lionel Hampton, as well as in the midst of a cooperation with Dizzy Gillespie, playing in and arranging for the 1956-1958 big band. His next step was to become a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and to compose several tunes for the band.

This CD contains private recordings of Cannonball Adderley's groups during 1967-68 playing at the Half Note in New York City. The music is quite worthy with altoist Cannonball Adderley featured in a quartet setting on "Stars Fell on Alabama," performing three songs with his quintet (including "Fiddler on the Roof") and playing three other pieces (highlighted by "Work Song" and "Unit Seven") with the sextet he had that featured Charles Lloyd on tenor. This music is generally superior to Adderley's commercial Capitol recordings of the period. ~ Scott Yanow

In our latest chapter of Spiritual Jazz, we return to the source – the Impulse! label, and the monumental influence of its most prominent artist, John Coltrane.

Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra - When The World Was One (2014) {Gondwana Records GONDCD 010}
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© 2014 Gondwana Records | GONDCD 010
Jazz / Post Bop / Modal Jazz / Spiritual Jazz / Trumpet

Change, or at least an evolution of the Halsall sound, is very much in the air on this wonderful new record. Credited to Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra there is a feeling of expansion of the musical palette, further steps on a satisfying journey towards the destination identified on 2012's transitional Fletcher Moss Park. That earlier record showed the way that Halsall was looking to evolve and shift his musical path—it began with pieces recorded in 2010 around the time of the Gilles Peterson Worldwide award winning On the Go, took in a couple of piano and bass-less tracks from a more experimental July 2011 session and ended up with a couple of tracks recorded in April 2012 by something broadly resembling the line-up for When the World Was One.

Heaven and Earth is a double album containing 2.5 hours of new music. The Earth side represents the world Kamasi sees outwardly, the world that he is a part of. The Heaven side represents the world he sees inwardly, the world that is a part of him. “The world that my mind lives in, lives in my mind.”