Return Visit! (issued as Tubby's Back In Town by Smash in the US) is an album by British jazz saxophonist Tubby Hayes, recorded in June 1962 and released on Fontana Records in 1963. Produced by Quincy Jones[2] and featuring the "All Stars" of Roland Kirk, James Moody, Walter Bishop, Jr., Sam Jones, and Louis Hayes, the session is notable for being Hayes's second to be recorded in the United States, following Tubbs in N.Y. in 1962. The line-up unusually includes three tenor saxophonists, all of whom double on other instruments.

Hayes wrote in the sleeve notes to the UK release that, "My feelings were somewhat mixed, possibly apprehensive. I was about to record with great American jazz men who knew nothing about the date until the day before and whom, apart from the piano player, I had never met."- Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCGiCDg-61Q&list=RDLCGiCDg-61Q&start_radio=1

#TubbyHayes #RolandKirk #Jazz #Music #JamesMoody #SamJones #WalterBishop #LouisHayes

Kirk's Work (also reissued as Funk Underneath) is an album by Roland Kirk, with Jack McDuff. Prestige Records released the album in 1961

The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings describes Kirk's Work as "a largely forgotten Kirk album, but one which generally deserves the classic reissue billing." Ron Wynn has described the album as "a fine reissue of Kirk in a soul-jazz and mainstream vein." AllMusic notes a "swinging R&B vibe pervasive throughout the album," judging that "while certainly not the best in his catalog, it is a touchstone album that captures the early soulful Rahsaan Roland Kirk." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kCtoidtmA&list=PLs6SrXGgvAbFASBv7z5FjP9yYORQ8AnFL&index=1

#RolandKirk #JackMcDuff #SoulJazz #Jazz #PrestigeRecords #Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj4-z6iVbc

#music #jazz #RolandKirk

Tonight at Noon is an album of music by the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus. It was released through Atlantic Records in July 1964. It compiles tracks recorded at two sessions – the 1957 sessions for the album entitled The Clown and the 1961 sessions for Oh Yeah.

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated: "While the former session features Mingus going for the blues via European harmonics and melodic approaches with hard bop tempos (particularly on the title track), the latter session with its nocturnal elegance and spatial irregularities comes off more as some kind of exercise in vanguard Ellington with sophisticated harmonies that give way to languid marches and gospel-tinged blues... Despite the fact that this is an assembled album, it holds plenty of magic nonetheless"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAD5oIqyis

#charlesmingus #rolandkirk #bookerervin #tonightatnoon

Oh Yeah Review by Steve Huey

..Oh Yeah often gets downright warped. That's partly because Mingus is freed up to vocalize more often, but it's also due to the presence of mad genius Roland Kirk..It's a shame Kirk only spent three months with the band, because his solo interpretations are such symbiotic reflections of Mingus' intent as a composer. Look no further than "Hog Callin' Blues," a stomping "Haitian Fight Song" descendant where Kirk honks and roars the blues like a man possessed. Mingus' vocal selections radiate the same dementia, whether it's the stream-of-consciousness blues couplets on "Devil Woman," the dark-humored modern-day spiritual "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me,"...Oh Yeah is probably the most offbeat Mingus album ever, and that's what makes it so vital.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXiYhe_YfNk&list=OLAK5uy_mG1casFMlkbr7DaVgs4vMjoX5Wuyuo0Yw

#charlesmingus #rolandkirk #atomicbomb #jazz #bookerervin

Late Night Tales: Four Tet is a DJ mix album compiled by Kieran Hebden, who goes by the pseudonym Four Tet. It is part of the Late Night Tales/Another Late Night compilation series.

David Pescheck wrote in a contemporary review for the Guardian:

"...Here, folk-rock and psychedelia rub up against hip-hop, visionary jazz and post-rock, and Terry Riley's early 1960s piece Music for the Gift (part 2), built from multi-track tapes of the trumpeter Chet Baker, proves sampling isn't as recent an innovation as you might think. The centrepiece is the 1973 Joe Henderson/Alice Coltrane collaboration Earth, which unravels hypnotically over 13 riveting minutes and sounds like deliciously woozy alien funk shuffling on with an intoxicatingly sinuous slowness. It's the Four Tet sound-world in microcosm."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZcFxo7nBY8&list=PL725884D3DD5C6CA8&index=1

#fourtet #latenighttales #terryriley #joehenderson #alivecoltrane #rolandkirk

The Roland Kirk Quartet Meets the Benny Golson Orchestra is an album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. It was originally released on the Mercury label in November 1963 and contains performances by Kirk's Quartet and Benny Golson's Orchestra.

The reviewer for Cash Box noted that their playing together "proves to be worthy and natural as the two come up with some first-rate jazz blending."

#rolandkirk #bennygolson #jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd6HlvES0nc