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Dammit!! The line-up alone makes this record worth while. Just look at the monsters that form the group asumbled for this one; check it out: Oliver Nelson - Sax alto & tenor; Eric Dolphy - Sax alto & flute; George Barrow - Sax Baritone; Freddie Hubbard - Trumpte; Bill Evans - Piano; Paul Chambers - Drums; Roy Haynes - Percussions. Links and album courtesy of UNIVERSAL MIND OF BILL EVENS. Cheers.

Tracklisting:

1. Stolen Moments
2. Hoe-Down
3. Cascades
4. Yearnin'
5. Butch and Butch
6. Teenie's Blues

Thanks Greg.

This is one trippy ass record. And yes, this is also Steve Reid. It can be dismissed as nothing but noise at times, but it's Reid's drums that draw you back to the rythym, and the shear mucicallity of the project... "This duo's third release showcases skittering electronics framed by grounded, dynamic percussion, in ten brief, impressionistic tracks, all recorded live. Hebden, of Four Tet and Fridge, has always embraced jazz's combative attitudes toward rhythm and melody, and here, with multiple samplers and guitar, he yields dense sounds both roiling and serene; while Reid, who played with Miles Davis and, um, Supertramp, adds scattershot rolls or tight backbeats. "Our Time" matches ambient Buddhist-temple bells with harp runs and metronomic drumming, while the tinny beeps and disco beats on "Rhythm Dance" summon a Martian post-punk groove..."

Tracklisting:

01 - the sun never sets
02 - brain
03 - our time
04 - people be happy
05 - greensleeves
06 - rhythm dance
07 - mirrors
08 - the squid
09 - superheros
10 - left handed left minded

Easily disimissed, but worth a listen.

Nowhere near as experimental as the last two, but equally good. Steve Reid takes more of a classic Jazz direction with this record, but his methods on the drums are still tremendous... "Steve Reid is a true pioneer of US left-field deep jazz. This release, originally released in 1976, is one of four albums Steve Reid recorded on his own tiny Mustevic record label in the 1970s and has a defining sound. This release follows on from the earlier Steve Reid album, Nova, also released on Soul Jazz Records. Steve Reid is steeped in musical history. He played in Sun Ra’s Arkestra, was a Motown session drummer and backed James Brown at the Apollo! He was imprisoned during the Vietnam war as a conscientious objector and lived in Africa in the early 1970s. Steve Reid has also worked with Freddie Hubbard, Gary Bartz, Ornette Coleman, Lester Bowie, Fela Kuti, Leon Thomas, Miles Davis and many more. There were only 1000 copies of this record pressed when it was originally released in 1974 and it has been a collectors’ album ever since..."

Tracklisting:

1. Kai
2. Rocks (For Cannonball)
3. Center Of The Earth
4. C You Around
5. One Minute Please

Enjoy.

Converse presents "The Midnight Hour" with WAX POETICS, HEINEKEN, BRIDGES, ROOTDOOWN & SOUL SESSIONS, featuing Adrian Younge & the Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra, Kev Brown, Shafiq of Sa-Ra Creative Partners, and special guests to be announced. Let's end the year off right, and as an added bonus, the first 100 people get a limited edition Black Dynamite 45, and a copy of Wax Poetics lastest issue. See you there...