Jazz Inspirations

Cordâme continues the exploration of French composers, after Satie and Debussy, it is Maurice Ravel's turn. Always under a new light, the composer and double bassist Jean Félix Mailloux composed pieces inspired by Ravel's impressionist universe and adapted several of his most famous works. At the crossroads of chamber music and jazz, Cordâme's music creates wonderful sound images representing imaginary landscapes of great beauty.

Guitarist Jim Hall accompanies himself on this collection of original compositions. Written and performed with various people in mind, including Coleman Hawkins, João Gilberto, and others, the music flows from straight-ahead jazz to Latin styles. Dedications & Inspirations is a virtuoso performance that every jazz guitar aficionado should check out.

Yusef Lateef - The Gentle Giant (1972) {2013 Japan Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series WPCR-27480}
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© 1972, 2013 Atlantic / Warner Japan / Rhino | WPCR-27480 | Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series
Jazz / Hard Bop / Soul Jazz / Jazz Funk / Saxophone / Flute

Features 24 bit remastering and comes with a mini-description. Yusef Lateef's music from the early '70s commands large doses of both appeal and skepticism. At a time when funk and fusion were merging with the intensely volatile and distrustful mood of the U.S., Lateef's brand of Detroit soul garnered new fans, and turned away those who preferred his earlier hard bop jazz or world music innovations. Thus The Gentle Giant is an appropriate title, as Lateef's levitational flute looms large over the rhythm & blues beats central to the equation. Kenny Barron's Fender Rhodes electric piano is also a sign of the times, an entry point introducing him to the contemporary jazz scene, and on that point alone is historically relevant.