Jazzy D's Soul Notes

A little bit of avant garde fusion to fill the heart with jazz



Horace Tapscott piano
Jesse Sharps soprano and tenor saxophones, flute
Linda Hill piano
Adele Sebastian vocal, flute
Lester Robertson trombone
David Bryant bass
Everett Brown, Jr. drums
Herbert Callies alto clarinet
James Andrews tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Michael Session alto saxophone
Kafi Larry Roberts flute, soprano saxophone
Archie Johnson trombone
Red Callendar tuba, bass
William Madison percussions, drums
Louis Spears cello, bass
Kamonta Lawrence Polk bass

From " The Call " 1978 Nimbus

Horace Tapscott Conducting The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra - The Call (1978)



00:00 A1. The Call
08:25 A2. Quagmire Manor At Five A.M.
18:57 B1. Nakatini Suite
28:05 B2. Peyote Song No. III

Recorded Los Angeles CA April 8, 1978, the year I graduated from Art School

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Popol Vuh / Das Hohelied Salomos



Prog Rock, Psychedelic, Fusion, Avant Garde, Rockin' in the Free World!


Popol Vuh - Steh Auf, Zieh Mich Dir Nach (1975)



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Inspired by jazz and progressive rock movements in the mid-seventies, Brazilian synth wizard Marcos Resende went all out acquiring a keyboard arsenal to be reckoned with. Integrating his newfound inspirations with Brazilian rhythms and jazz, he formed a quartet with Rubão Sabino (bass), Claudio Caribé (drums) and the late great Oberdan Magalhães, of Banda Black Rio fame.

Some music based on my cheap finds yesterday -

New Order-True Faith



Bix Beiderbecke - Riverboat Shuffle



Duke Ellington - La Plus Belle Africaine




Simphiwe Dana - Sizophum' Elokishini



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When Mildlife’s debut album, Phase, was released in 2018 it didn’t so much explode on to the scene as ooze. Their mellifluous mix of jazz, krautrock and, perhaps more pertinently, demon grooves, was the word of mouth sensation of that year among open-minded DJs and diggers searching for the perfect beat.

Their emergence was backed up by European tours that demonstrated a riotously loose-limbed approach to performance that was every bit as thrilling as Phase’s tantalising promise. What was more impressive was how lightly they wore influences that took in Can, Patrick Adams and Jan Hammer Group, while primarily sounding precisely like Mildlife.

By the end of 2018 they’d been nominees for Best Album at the Worldwide FM Awards (Worldwide’s Gilles Peterson was a notable champion) and won Best Electronic Act at The Age Music Victoria Awards back home in Melbourne. Their progress post-Phase was cemented with a UK deal with Jeff Barrett’s Heavenly, who released How Long Does It Take? replete with Cosmic doyen Baldelli and Dionigi remixes, while last year they were officially anointed by DJ Harvey when he included The Magnificent Moon on his Pikes compilation Mercury Rising Vol II.

With Automatic, the band have made a step-change from their debut. It’s more disciplined, directional and arguably more danceable. As on Phase, they are unafraid to let a track luxuriate in length without ever succumbing to self-indulgence. The arrangements, tightly structured thanks to Tom Shanahan (bass) and Jim Rindfleish’s fatback drumming, permit space for the others to add spice to the stew, topped off with Kevin McDowell’s ethereal vocals as Mildlife effortlessly glide between live performance and studio songwriting. “The recorded songs kind of become the new reference point for playing the songs live,’ says Kevin. “They both have different outcomes and we make our decisions for each based on that, but they’re symbiotic and they both influence each other. It’s usually a fairly natural flow from live to recorded back to live.”


The centrepiece of Automatic is the title track where the band sound like Kraftwerk and Herbie Hancock on quarantined lockdown in Bob Moog’s Trumansburg workshop. It’s both a departure and quintessentially Mildlife. This is music you can dance to rather than ‘dance music’ and it’s all the better for it.




From the tank of music past here is another mixed bag -

Soft Machine - Dada Was Here



Dada Was Here
- Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
- Have You Ever Bean Green?
- Pataphysical Introduction - Pt II
- Out If Tunes

Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre. Though they achieved little commercial success, they are considered by Allmusic to be "one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones."


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As it is Sunday a mixed bag of grooves -

Jacqueline Taïeb - 7h du matin



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Think i need a musical diversion -


Basil Kirchin - The New Breed (Full)




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A day of relaxing before a busy day tomorrow , including a visit to Tunbridge Wells and High Brooms , and perhaps Tenterden. Anyway, i am listening to this fine nu-jazz compilation.

The coolest track going around my head right now