Abdullah Ibrahim (1993)

 

Alto Saxophone – Carlos Ward (tracce: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7), Robbie Jansen (tracce: 3)
Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Horace Alexander Young (tracce: 9 to 12)
Baritone Saxophone – Charles Davis (2) (tracce: 2), Howard Johnson (3) (tracce: 9, 10), Jimmy Cozier (tracce: 11, 12)
Double Bass – Buster Williams (tracce: 9 to 12), Cecil McBee (tracce: 8), David Williams (2) (tracce: 2,13), Essiet Okun Essiet* (tracce: 6, 7), Spencer Mbadu (tracce: 3)
Double Bass, Vocals – Johnny Dyani (tracce: 14)
Drums – Andrei Strobert (tracce: 4), Ben Riley (tracce: 2, 11, 12), Billy Higgins (tracce: 13), Brian Adams* (tracce: 9, 10), Don Mumford (tracce: 6, 7), Monty Weber (tracce: 3), Roy Brooks (tracce: 8)
Electric Bass – Alonzo Gardner (tracce: 4)
Flute – Craig Handy (tracce: 13)
Guitar – Errol Dyers (tracce: 3)
Photography By – Elena Carminati
Piano, Sopranino Saxophone, Vocals – Abdullah Ibrahim
Tenor Saxophone – Basil "Mannenberg" Coetzee* (tracce: 3), John Stubblefield (tracce: 9, 10), Ricky Ford (tracce: 2, 11 to 13)
Trombone – Benny Powell (tracce: 13), Craig Harris (3) (tracce: 4), Frank Lacy (tracce: 11, 12), Robin Eubanks (tracce: 9, 10)
Trumpet – Johnny Mekoa (tracce: 3)
Vocals – Johnny Classens* (tracce: 6)

1 African Piano
2 Manenberg Revisited
3 Bayi Lam
4 The Homecoming Song
5 Don't Blame Me
6 Iza-Ne Zembe Gawuale (Bring The Ax)
7 Black And Brown Cherries
8 Banyana
9 The Wedding
10 Toi-Toi
11 Meditations
12 Calypso Major
13 Pule (Rain)
14 Zikr

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Bob Moses - When elephants dream of music (1983)

featuring Ayieb Dieng, Barry Rogers, Bemshi Shearer, Bill Frisell, Bob Weiner, Chris Rogers, David Friedman, David Gross, Doc Halliday, Howard Johnson, Jahnet Levatin, Jeanne Lee, Jeremy Steig, Jim Pepper, Joe Boandio, Lyle Mays, Marion Cowings, Michael Formanek, Nana Vasconcelos, Paul Socolow, Paula Potocki, Rahboat Ntumba Moses, Sheila Jordan, Steve Swallow, Terumasa Hino, Toni Wilson

01 Trevor

02 Piccolo and Lulu
03 Everybody Knows You When You're up and In
04 Lava Flow
05 Happy to Be Here Today
06 For Miles
07 Embraceable Jew
08 Bugs Bunny
09 Black Orchid
10 Disappearing Blues
11 Ripped Van Twinkle
12 Blame It on the Egg

13 The River

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Michael Mantler - Jazz Composer´s Orchestra (1968)

Cecil Tayor piano
Don Cherry cornet
Roswell Rudd trombone
Pharoah Sanders tenor saxophone
Larry Coryell guitar
Gato Barbieri tenor saxophone
Carla Bley piano
Steve Lacy soprano saxophone
Michael Mantler soprano saxophone
Lew Tabackin tenor saxophone
Randy Brecker fluegelhorn
Jimmy Knepper trombone
Howard Johnson tuba
Charlie Haden bass
Steve Swallow bass
Andrew Cyrille drums
Beaver Harris drums

01 Communications #8
02 Communications #9
03 Communications #10
04 Preview
05 Communications #11 Part 1
06 Communications #11 Part 2

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Steve Weisberg - I can't stand another night alone (in bed with you) (1986)

Lew Soloff trumpet
Baikida Carroll trumpet
Gary Valente trombone
John Clark French horn
Wolfgang Puschnig alto saxophone, flute
Howard Johnson baritone saxophone, contra bass clarinet, tuba
Hiram Bullock guitar
Steve Weisberg piano, synthesizer, organ
Steve Swallow drums
Victor Lewis drums
Anton Fier drum

1. I can't stand another night alone (in bed with you)
2. Table for one
3. Walking home alone
4. Waking up alone
5. Trapped in true love
6. You can't have anything

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Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition - Album Album (1984)

Jack DeJohnette’s Album Album, an exercise in exuberance in memory of his late mother, opens with one of his most sophisticated compositions ever committed to disc: “Ahmad The Terrible.” With an engaging klezmer-like joie de vivre and fantastic soprano sax work from John Purcell, it’s a sheer delight from start to finish. The first of five DeJohnette originals, it leaps from the speakers like a body in motion. As if that weren’t jubilant enough, “Festival” stirs up a crowd’s worth of enthusiasm, made all the more inspiring through some notably spirited drumming. “New Orleans Strut” makes tongue-in-cheek use of drum machine as DeJohnette plays a synth lead (his pianism in the opener is also worth noting). Over this bubbly layer the punchy stylings of both reedmen work their way from the groove in most visible fashion. Such is also the case in “Third World Anthem,” another sophisticated peak. Playful whoops from horns add a strong emotional undercurrent toward the elegant staccato finish. “Zoot Suite” makes a welcome cameo, cut in half from its first appearance on Special Edition. The present rendition is delicate, but with no loss of groove to show for it. The one compositional outlier is “Monk’s Mood,” in which horns and bass dance cheek-to-cheek as if in an old Hollywood black-and-white. It also engenders the album’s only blatant lapse into unrequited joy through the baritone of Howard Johnson.

The glorious verve of DeJohnette and his band mates keeps us anchored amid a flurry of sonic activity and, alongside the tight bass work of Rufus Reid, allows little time for sadness. Here is a space in which mourning must wear a smile, where the self is always secondary to those one loves.

From http://ecmreviews.com/2011/12/21/album-album/

John Purcell saxophones
David Murray saxophone
Howard Johnson tuba, saxophone
Rufus Reid bass
Jack DeJohnette drums, keyboards

01 Ahmad The Terrible
02 Monk's mood
03 Festival
04 New Orleans strut
05 Third World Anthem
06 Zoot suite

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