Percussion Bitter Sweet is an album by jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in 1961, released on Impulse! Records.

Review by Scott Yanow

A classic album, and one of the finest of drummer Max Roach's very productive career. The illustrious sidemen (trumpeter Booker Little; trombonist Julian Priester; Eric Dolphy on alto, bass clarinet, and flute; tenorman Clifford Jordan; pianist Mal Waldron, and bassist Art Davis, in addition to some guest percussionists) all have opportunities to make strong contributions. Dolphy's pleading alto solo on "Mendacity" is particularly memorable. Abbey Lincoln has two emotional and very effective vocals, but it is the overall sound of the ensembles and the political nature of the music that make this set (along with Roach's Freedom Now Suite) quite unique in jazz history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYVROlfIXDQ&list

#MaxRoach #EricDolphy #AbbeyLincoln #Jazz #ImpulseRecords #Music #BookerLittle #JulianPriester #MalWaldron #ArtDavis #MarcusGarvey #CliffordJordan

OK, a bit more edgy for Tuesday. From Herbie Hancock's "Crossings" (1972), listen to "Water Torture."

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#20thCenturyMusic
#HerbieHancock
#EddieHenderson
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#BusterWilliams
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https://youtu.be/RqQ2ZB9-fsw?list=RDRqQ2ZB9-fsw

We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album released through Candid Records in December 1960. It contains a suite that composer and drummer Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959 with a view to its performance in 1963 on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. The cover references the sit-in movement of the Civil Rights Movement. The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album one of its rare crown accolades, in addition to featuring it as part of its Core Collection. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhIUaGsttE4&list=RDRhIUaGsttE4&start_radio=1

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#JulianPriester #WalterBenton #Jazz #Music #EmancipationProclamation #ColemanHawkins #Civilrightsmovement

The Spoiler is an album by jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Julian Priester, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson.

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and states "despite some potentially indifferent material, Turrentine is in fine form throughout the date". - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVILjq5kyzc&list=RDDVILjq5kyzc&start_radio=1

#StanleyTurrentine #BlueMitchell #JamesSpaulding #MCCoyTyner #BlueNote #Jazz #Music #HardBop #SoulJazz #JulianPriester #BobCranshaw #MickeyRoker #DukePearson

Parisian Sketches is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in Paris in 1960 and released on the Mercury label - Wikipedia

American hard boppers in Paris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vL5N5UU1o&list=RD92vL5N5UU1o&start_radio=1

#MaxRoach #TommyTurrentine #JulianPriester #StanleyTurrentine #hardbop #jazz #jazzinParis

The Many Sides of Max is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach featuring tracks recorded in 1959 but not released on the Mercury label until 1964.

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating "all seven selections on the admittedly brief album (around 31 minutes) are worth hearing" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBWXOAeo3e0&list=PLrVOpk1eP7lr6lkQzY6Ji6Xy2okvkUNve&index=1

#MaxRoach #BookerLittle #JulianPriester #GeorgeColeman #ArtDavis #jazz #hardbop

Out Front is a 1961 album by American jazz trumpeter Booker Little featuring performances recorded and released by the Candid label.

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "His seven now-obscure originals (several of which deserve to be revived) are challenging for the soloists and there are many strong moments during these consistently challenging and satisfying performances" - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeYssbZTHJI&list=OLAK5uy_lafLQnhqcHAOtyTNribo2aVrB_rjIYfHM

#bookerlittle #maxroach #hardbop #jazz #modernjazz #candidrecords #ericdolphy #JulianPriester #roncarter #donfriedman

Love, Love is an album by American jazz trombonist and composer Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto recorded in two sessions on June 28 and September 13, 1973 and released on ECM the following year.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

With a title like Love, Love, Julian Priester’s ECM debut could be nothing but a warm embrace, an abstract melodrama lifted from the pages of an epic story. Hot on the heels of Bennie Maupin’s The Jewel in the Lotus, this album gives us more than we might expect and electrifies like a Mwandishi joint sans Herbie Hancock. Between the groovy “Prologue” and brass-laden “Epilogue” lie three interconnected pieces in two 20-minute suites, each a head-nodding peregrination couched in the vibrant expanse that only an ensemble of this size can maintain...

https://ecmreviews.com/2010/11/07/love-love/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoB6vNE9CnQ&list=RDPoB6vNE9CnQ&start_radio=1

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#HadleyCaliman #BayeteUmbraZindiko
#NduguLeonChancler
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