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Dave Nanian

Hank Mobley Quartet - s/t

Terrific 1955 debut Blue Note session of the 25-year-old Mobley (sax), Horace Silver (piano), Doug Watkins (bass), and Art Blakey (drums)...which may sound familiar, given the Jazz Messengers (which Mobley played with, too).

Old(ish) Music Matters 45 RPM re-release of 25 minutes of mono hard bop, mostly Mobley originals, save for Porter's Love for Sale.

Hank Mobley Quartet LP cover. On a black background, inset lower left, a black and white shot of Mobley, surrounded by the title. The black LP plays on a vintage, restored Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4000 linear-tracking turntable to the right.
#nowplaying#vinyl#jazz
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Andi Chorley

Moody (also released as Moody's Workshop) is an album by saxophonist James Moody composed of sessions from 1954 with a septet arranged by Quincy Jones. The LP was released on the Prestige label.

Scott Yanow, writing for AllMusic, stated: "In the mid-'50s James Moody led a four-horn septet that played music falling somewhere between bop and rhythm & blues. The danceable rhythms and riffing made its recordings somewhat accessible but the solos of Moody (on tenor and alto) and trumpeter Dave Burns also held listener's interests".

youtube.com/watch?v=crGB-Vac6k

#jamesmoody#flutejazz#quincyjones
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Andi Chorley

Landslide is an album by American jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon featuring recordings from 1961 and 1962 which was first released on the Blue Note label in 1980 as part of the Blue Note Classics series.

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated: "Landslide is comprised of previously unreleased material from three separate Dexter Gordon-led sessions between May 1961 and June 1962. ... All three sessions hold together fairly well, and although nothing on the record qualifies as a masterpiece, nothing is bad, either. In comparison to the released sessions, this material may pale somewhat, but it remains first-rate hard bop and is recommended to Gordon collectors". - Wikipedia

#DexterGordon #bluenote #hardbop

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Andi Chorley

Beat Review by Jason Ankeny

Recorded for Berry Gordy's short-lived Workshop Jazz imprint, Roy Brooks' simply but authoritatively titled Beat fuses the intellectual rigors of the modern idiom with the physical prowess of soul-jazz to create a record of uncommon scope and reach. Working with Horace Silver Quintet colleagues Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, and Gene Taylor alongside Detroit contemporaries George Bohannon and Hugh Lawson, Brooks channels influences spanning the breadth of the Motor City scene, resulting in a clutch of challenging but engaging performances with the unmistakable patina of the embryonic Motown sound. While their technical proficiency is stunning, Brooks' rhythms never lose sight of the almighty groove, and for its hard bop stridency, the record has the proverbial good beat and you can dance to it.

#roybrooks #bluemitchell #juniorcook #jazz #hardbop

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Gene From The Moon

NTS Guide to: The Music of Basquiat

"From the music he listened to in the studio, to tracks referenced in his paintings and contemporaries from downtown NYC, this mix delves into the musical life of Jean Michel Basquiat – the crown prince of neo-expressionism, and the avatar of New York's creative explosion in the 1980s."

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NTS RadioNTS Guide to: The Music of Basquiat 13th March 2025Playing Electro, Funk, No Wave, Blues, Hard Bop. From the music he listened to in the studio, to tracks referenced in his paintings and contemporaries from downtown NYC, this mix delves into the musical life of Jean Michel Basquiat – the crown prince of neo-expressionism, and the avatar of New York's creative explosion in the 1980s.
#music#nts#ntsradio
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Gene From The Moon

NTS Guide to: The Music of Basquiat

"From the music he listened to in the studio, to tracks referenced in his paintings and contemporaries from downtown NYC, this mix delves into the musical life of Jean Michel Basquiat – the crown prince of neo-expressionism, and the avatar of New York's creative explosion in the 1980s."

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NTS RadioNTS Guide to: The Music of Basquiat 13th March 2025Playing Electro, Funk, No Wave, Blues, Hard Bop. From the music he listened to in the studio, to tracks referenced in his paintings and contemporaries from downtown NYC, this mix delves into the musical life of Jean Michel Basquiat – the crown prince of neo-expressionism, and the avatar of New York's creative explosion in the 1980s.
#music#nts#ntsradio
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Dave Nanian

Teddy Edwards / Howard McGhee - Together Again!!!!

Hopefully I got the number of exclamation points right. Wouldn’t want to mix this up with other albums.

Edwards & McGhee had been friends for years, and with McGhee off drugs (briefly), they got together and recorded this great album in 1961 along with Phineas Newborn Jr. (piano), Ray Brown (bass), and Ed Thigpen (drums).

Really nice new remastering/pressing by Craft & QRP.

Teddy Edwards / Howard McGhee - Together Again!!!! LP cover. White border, title and artists at the top, and a color shot of HowardMcGhee (front, blue), and Teddy Edwards (rear, red) playing their instruments. The black LP plays on a vintage, restored Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4000 linear-tracking turntable to the right.
#nowplaying#vinyl#jazz
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