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This lady led an amazing life. Jazz owes so much to her. Check her discography to see the multitudes she played with, not to mention her work in education, media, and the multitude of awards bestowed upon her. 

 

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Scored a copy of the Rookies Stay Weird off PBS FM the other day!

 

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8 track album

< Melbourne cult jazz quintet The Rookies offer a quirky and diverse journey into the minds of frustrated jazz musicians seeking more from their genre with their second LP, ‘Stay Weird’. An album that nods to the hard bop and spirit jazz of their forebears, ‘Stay Weird’ is a collection of wonky originals and obscure treatments of standards by the likes of John Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders.

Featuring guest vocals from Melbourne-based soul/exotica phenomenon Laneous (Laneous, Kafka, Laneous and the Family Yah), and Australian jazz legend Ben Gillespie (The Hoodangers, The Four Scoops), ‘Stay Weird’ is an ode to the unique energy when people shed their pride to collaborate and honour each other’s creative offerings. It is a celebration of the raw energy of improvisation, where anything is possible if you can just let your weirdness shine through. >

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Claude Bolling isn't the first name that rolls from the tongue of most jazz aficionados when asked of their favourite musicians, but when you consider he has written soundtracks for over 100 movies, and has played and recorded with the likes of Django Reinhardt, Lionel Hampton, Kenny Clarke, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Stephane Grappelli, and Oscar Petterson (with which he was great friends), he certainly communicated with jazz royalty. Being mostly a bop traditionalist, he was also known for combining jazz with his love for classical, somewhat akin to Jacques Lousier. On this album he shows his spanning abilities in the company of fellow Frenchmen Jean-Luc Dayan (drums), Jean Francois Rougé (bass), along with Steve La Spina (bass).

 

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Bill Evans - Re: Person I knew

 

Bill Evans - piano

Eddie Gomez - bass

Marty Morell - drums

 

This is one of Bill's less melodic, more free releases. Recorded live at The Village Vanguard in January 1974, and released posthumously in 1981, most of the material was never meant to be released, so in all likelihood was performed in a more relaxed state, void of the pressures of making an album. One gains a true feeling of what it would have been like to be there, witnessing what these guys do in their natural playing environment.

 

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