What Are You Listening To? November 2020

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I've never heard it, but I like the lineup that I recognize.
They don't all play together. I think Here And There is one of those albums put together from multiple recording sessions from years earlier. It's very good. Especially the songs with Dolphy on flute. He absolutely kills those parts where it sounds like only the bass and flute get the action.
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Eric Dolphy - In Europe (1964)

Splitting his time between flute and bass clarinet, this is another killer. More bass&flute that sounds exquisite. And the bass clarinet songs make this one-time bass clarinetist very happy.
 

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Modern Classical, Choral Works
 
Ronnie Mathews - Doin' The Thang (1964)

I have this as a version attributed to Freddie Hubbard as leader, but as I listened I realized I could not locate it on RYM as a Hubbard album. I checked as a Mathews album, and voila. Who knew? Not me.

It's great having a trumpet and baritone sax on the frontline, especially with a trumpeter as explosive as Hubbard.
 
Roland Alexander - Pleasure Bent (1962)

This was Mr Alexander's lone album as a leader. He shot his shot, got lost in the shuffle, and played forevermore as a sideman. He played with Sam Rivers, Eddie Gale, Max and Freddie Roach, Archie Shepp, Stanley Crowell, and many others, but he never recorded again as a leader. While listening to this, I keep hearing "he could'a been a contender" in my head.

oneRYMreviewer said:
Well, it's 1961 and Roland Alexander releases a hard bop session entitled "Pleasure Bent" and all his hopes and dreams ride on it. It doesn't make waves, and he goes on his merry way performing for however many decades, most likely saying that he was just grateful for being able to record it in the first place. But it is as it was, and it was a missed chance... I'm sure he knew it.
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Alexander was a Coltrane influenced saxophonist "before it was cool" way back in '61.
 
Joe Henderson - Multiple (1973)

Very groovy, my man. You will dig it. Joe doesn't cover "Moanin'" on this album, but he moans on the opening track.

multipleRYMreviewers said:
Thankfully Joe Henderson had the opportunity to be a part of Herbie Hancock's Fat Albert Rotunda, and Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay and Straight Life. Otherwise he may not have been inspired to make Multiple, which may be his finest album.
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My favourite Joe Henderson album
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More like WOAH Henderson
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this album resembles a gentler, more accessible and less chaotic "Bitches Brew" at times but it still caught me off guard (mainly because I wasn't really aware Henderson even *had* an "electric period")
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It's a brilliant record,brimming with ideas and executed with real style.
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Unbelievably awesome! A jazz-fusion essential.
It's unanimous. Everyone loves it!
 
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