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Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo - live at Planetário da Gávea 1981

Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo  -  live at Planetário da Gávea 1981 by Improvised Solo on Mixcloud

Tracks: 

01 - Amor, Paz e Esperança 

02 - A Flauta Pura 

03 - O Piano Parte 

04 - Caminho de Jazz 

05 - Canjicas Doce Samba 

06 - Cor Rítmica (Drums) 

07 - Free Jazz Meltdown

08 - Samba do Belaqua 

09 - Palavras ao Mar

10 - A Ver Sax 

11 - Planos D'Água  

12 - Em Novo Tambor 

13 - Grave de Feliz

14 - Bombardino 

15 - Água na boca

16 - Voltada

17 - Era pra ser e não foi  

18 - Próprio Exercício

19 - De ser sentido (includes São Jorge) 

20 - Ilza na feijoada

21 - Eletri Ficar

22 - Dueto de bateria 

23 - Ferradas a quatro termos 

24 - Jegue 

25 - Sem ser jamais o fim

Line-up: 

Hermeto Pascoal - multi instrumentalist

Itiberê Zwarg - Bass

Jovino Santos Neto - Piano and Flutes

Carlos Malta - Reeds, Flutes

Pernambuco - Percussion

Zé Eduardo Nazário - Drums and percussion

Márcio Bahia - Drums and percussion

Donald Byrd - Black Byrd (1973)

Purists howled with indignation when Donald Byrd released Black Byrd, a full-fledged foray into R&B that erupted into a popular phenomenon. Byrd was branded a sellout and a traitor to his hard bop credentials, especially after Black Byrd became the biggest-selling album in Blue Note history. What the elitists missed, though, was that Black Byrd was the moment when Byrd's brand of fusion finally stepped out from under the shadow of his chief influence, Miles Davis, and found a distinctive voice of its own. Never before had a jazz musician embraced the celebratory sound and style of contemporary funk as fully as Byrd did here -- not even Davis, whose dark, chaotic jungle-funk stood in sharp contrast to the bright, breezy, danceable music on Black Byrd. Byrd gives free rein to producer/arranger/composer Larry Mizell, who crafts a series of tightly focused, melodic pieces often indebted to the lengthier orchestrations of Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield. They're built on the most straightforward funk rhythms Byrd had yet tackled, and if the structures aren't as loose or complex as his earlier fusion material, they make up for it with a funky sense of groove that's damn near irresistible. Byrd's solos are mostly melodic and in-the-pocket, but that allows the funk to take center stage. Sure, maybe the electric piano, sound effects, and Roger Glenn's ubiquitous flute date the music somewhat, but that's really part of its charm. Black Byrd was state-of-the-art for its time, and it set a new standard for all future jazz/R&B/funk fusions -- of which there were many. Byrd would continue to refine this sound on equally essential albums like Street Lady and the fantastic Places and Spaces, but Black Byrd stands as his groundbreaking signature statement. 

by Steve Huey in All Music Guide

Styles:
Crossover Jazz
Jazz-Funk
R&B

Tracks: 
01 - Flight Time (08:27)
02 - Black Byrd (08:00)
03 - Love's So Far Away (06:00)
04 - Mr. Thomas (05:15)
05 - Sky High (05:59)
06 - Slop Jar Blues (06:00)
07 - Where Are We Going? (04:40)

Line-up: 
Allan Curtis Barnes - flute, oboe, saxophone
Donald Byrd - trumpet, flugelhorn, electric trumpet, vocals
Wilton Felder - electric bass
Roger Glenn - flute, saxophone
Bobbye Hall - percussion
Joe Hill - bass
Perk Jacobs - percussion
Keith Killgo - drums
Harvey Mason, Sr. - drums
Fonce Mizell - trumpet, vocals
Larry Mizell - guitar, vocals
Dean Parks - guitar
Freddie Perren - electric piano, synthesizer, vocals
Barney Perry - guitar
Bobbye Porter - percussion
Chuck Rainey - electric bass
Joe Sample - piano, electric piano
Stephanie Spruill - percussion
Kevin Toney - piano
David T. Walker - guitar
David Hassinger - engineer, remixing

JAM

Sausalito

Podcast #2 Mysterious Travelers (Jazz Fusão)

Hosted by Sr. Moai Sr. Patrick

Podcast #2 Mysterious Travelers (Jazz Fusão) by Improvised Solo on Mixcloud

Tracklist:
01. John Klemmer - Children of the Earth 
02. The Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency
03. Virgo - Ballons
04. Jun Fukamachi 21st Century Band - Meikyu
05. Headhunters - Butterfly
06. Hermeto Pascoal - Mixing Pot (Tacho)
07. Tontom Macoute - Don't Make me Cry
08. Weather Report - Gibraltar 
09. Miles Davis - Freedom X
10. Area - Vodka Cola
11. Return to Forever - Song to the Pharoah Kings
12. Lary Corryel - Gypsy Queen
13. Jean Luc Ponty - Mirage
14. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - You Know, You Know
15. Frank Zappa - Blessed Relief
16. Gary Bartz - Carnaval de L’Esprit
17. Donald Byrd - Wind Parade
18. Sun Ra - UFO

wave.cat - New Year New Things

During the last days of the year a new project was born. We present to you all: wave.cat!

Wave.cat is a web platform with thousands of hours of music kindly handpicked by our team and organized in 4 playlists. Each playlist is associated with a mood (Feet / Heartfull / Lungs / Cerebral), which will take the listener in a different trip, always having as a reference the gramatics of jazz. 

We also want to wish you an excelent 2013 and we wait for your feedback. If you contribute with your opinion, our projects will always be better.

improvised solo team