Free is an album by Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist Airto Moreira (who was credited as "Airto") with performances recorded in 1972. The album was released by CTI Records and reached No. 30 on the jazz album chart at Billboard magazine.

At AllMusic, critic Scott Yanow writes that the album combines "jazz, Brazilian music, and aspects of fusion and funk quite successfully." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lKLhG1kUtc&list=PLLCx7chs1o5WKLkPG27rFAtQtuuXCNK2B&index=1

#Airto #AirtoMoreira #Jazz #BrazilianMusic #CTIRecords #Music #JazzRock #JazzFusion #JoeFarrell #ChickCorea #KeithJarrett #HubertLaws #GeorgeBenson #JayBerliner #RonCarter #StanleyClarke #FloraPurim #DonSebesky

Remembering Esther Phillips on the day she would have been 89-years old.

I've written a lot about Esther, I have a soft spot for her singing and am fascinated by her life story.

I have at least one more piece to write based on some history from #johnnyotis - It explains a great deal about why Esther made some of the choices she did.

For today though, I want to remember a ballsy woman who once walked into Creed Taylors office with a baseball bat under her fur coat to demand her royalty check.

Posts via the jazzjump or link in bio

#estherphillips #ctirecords #creedtaylor #ctproduced @davidmatthewsjazz

Hey, citizens of the fediverse - I just wanted to remember the great Grover Washington, Jr. who left us this day, 25-years ago. Far too soon. Such a talent, such a nice, kind man.

Just 5-days after celebrating his 56th birthday, Grover had a heart attack in the green room, after performing and recording four songs for “The Saturday Early Show”, at CBS Studios in New York City. He was pronounced dead at 7:30pm that day, December 17th, 1999, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City.

He was still working in a department store when his first
#Kudu
album came out, he got to put it in the racks. You can find all this plus at least 2x live sets; a ctproduced mix and so much more. https://www.ctproduced.com/jazzjump/

#ctproduced

#creedtaylor

#ctirecords

#Groverwahsingtonjr

My Tamiko Jones post is finally live. This was a massive 3-month project, and includes a mix of her music with previously unheard tracks from the Tonight Show that are not available in any other format.

Jones was one of the few people to speak out at longtime Recording Academy President Michael Greene, who abruptly resigned in 2002.
https://www.ctproduced.com/tamiko-jones-more-than-a-woman/

#TamikoJones #CTIrecords #CreedTaylor #HerbieMann #NowSpinning #NowStreaming

I've been quiet for the last few weeks as I've been working on the first stage of getting my vinyl organized.

I acquired my vinyl collection in many countries, cities and stages of my life over the last 50-years. It's been in the same house for the last 6-years but in different rooms and places.

Stage-1 of the re-org now done. I've listed over 500 records for sale on discogs, to be honest most are house music 12" singles. There are about 60 left to list, but they came from a box in a storage basement in a very old building and need to be test played before listing.

Next up is to re-organize my main storage shelves, especially all my #ctirecords #kudu #verve #impulse and other treasured pressings.

If you know anyone who likes #housemusic or is a #housemusiclovers including hard-house and trance mostly from the 2000's and also many that are the only copies that are for sale in the #USA go here > https://www.discogs.com/seller/4MC/profile