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The Roy Hargrove Quintet - earfood

Easily streamed, and found on CD, but the only place to source it on vinyl is Japan.

However you get it, this 2008 release, with his touring quintet, is a delight from first (Cedar Walton's I'm Not So Sure) to last (Sam Cooke's Bring it on Home to Me).

(Gerald Clayton, on piano, is all over modern jazz LPs, including his own, and always on point.)

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #PostBop #RoyHargrove #GeraldClayton #JustinRobinson #DantonBoller #MontezColeman

Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Trios: Ocean by Charles Lloyd, released on Blue Note in 2022.

The Ocean Trio, one of three configurations documented in the Trio of Trios trilogy, was recorded in the 150-year-old Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, California, in Lloyd’s hometown (where he has played more than any venue, and more than any other artist). It was live streamed on September 9, 2020, during the first year of the global pandemic, so there is no audience. Lloyd was joined by Gerald Clayton on piano and Anthony Wilson on guitar, both sons of famous musician fathers — Clayton the son of West Coast bass legend John Clayton, while Anthony Wilson is the son of celebrated band leader, trumpeter, composer and arranger Gerald Wilson, in whose big band Lloyd once played...

https://www.bluenote.com/spotlight/charles-lloyd-trios-ocean/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJybcMW0q6o&list=OLAK5uy_mTeI0nZDO3btDD0l0314FV3tYmcW05XEY

#CharlesLloyd #GeraldClayton #AnthonyWilson #BlueNote #Jazz #Music #Lockdown

Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening, 2011 on Blue Note

Akinmusire is an avant-garde jazz trumpeter from Oakland by way of the Manhattan School of Music, USC, and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in LA. This was his second album (first on Blue Note) with Walter Smith III on sax, Gerald Clayton on piano, Harish Raghavan on bass, and Justin Brown on drums.

“My Name is Oscar” is a spoken word piece with drums (or maybe it is a drum piece with spoken word interlude) about the shooting of Oscar Grant III at Fruitvale Station in 2009 – also the subject of Ryan Coogler’s film Fruitvale Station from 2013.

My copy is actually from the Vinyl Me Please Anthology The Story of Blue Note Records, second edition, on which it stands in for Blue Note’s “modern” era. Wonderful record I might not have heard outside the context of the anthology but I’m very happy to have.

#2010s #2011 #AmbroseAkinmusire #BlueNote #FruitvaleStation #GeraldClayton #HarishRaghavan #OscarGrantIII #TheStoryOfBlueNoteRecords #vinyl #vinylMePlease #VinylMePleaseAnthology #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WalterSmithIII

Really excited for a new album from Gerald Clayton, "Ones and Twos," out today on Blue Note.

Clayton is maybe my favorite jazz-ish pianist these days? His last solo outing, "Bells on Sand," is near the very top of my favorite records from the last X years list.

And on this album, he's here with a number of inimitable players and kindred spirits, a line-up that definitely suggests that this record will lean into the groove:

Joel Ross (vibes)
Elena Pinderhughes (flute)
Marquis Hill (trumpet)
Kendrick Scott (drums)
Kassa Overall (producer, percussion)

More about the album here:

https://www.bluenote.com/spotlight/gerald-clayton-on-the-ones-twos/

#NewMusic2025 #NewMusicFriday #NowListening #Jazz #GeraldClayton

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip

Bill Frisell & Gregory Tardy & Gerald Clayton & Johnathan Blake:
🎵 Blues from before

#BillFrisell #GregoryTardy #GeraldClayton #JohnathanBlake

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip

Samara Joy & Gerald Clayton:
🎵 Can't get out of this mood (feat. Gerald Clayton) (Duo version)

#SamaraJoy #GeraldClayton

https://open.spotify.com/track/6IXwkkCywEC6IZywMmKiVd

Quite a nice night of music listening. Has included the following albums.

#GeraldClayton - Bells on Sand

#Enji - Ulaan

#MarleneRibeiro - What It Is

And more #Enji right now, this time 2021's Ursgal lp. All terrific albums in their own right.

What vibe is this I am trying desperately to extend? I like it.

#NowPlaying

Spending the day listening to a mix of 2022 releases, both favorites and stuff I haven't gotten to yet.

First up was the terrific #BellsOnSand release from pianist #GeraldClayton. Easily one of my favorite records of the year with Clayton sharing takes on Mompou, the standard "My Ideal," and terrific new compositions. Very thoughtful, purposeful, reflective. (Clayton had a great year, playing on some of my other favorite jazz-ish releases including "Four" from #BillFrisell and one of the trio records from #CharlesLloyd, "Ocean."

#NowPlaying this year's release from #DamienJurado, #ReggaeFilmStar. Like Clayton's lp, Jurado is often mining a sort of lush but quiet minimalism on this one (some nice string arrangements). There's a story/concept running through that I haven't quite unraveled yet. Jurado's lyrics shine bright as always:

The secret life of photographers
Choreographers
Pornographers
Do they pray sitting silently?
Sunday morning comes
What do they believe?