This compilation is created with real care and respect for those who sent jazz music to the sky limit. Jazz Directions is a small effort for such a big music that covers trends from Cool Jazz up to Post-Bop, Fusion, Folk Jazz and Avant Garde.
THE TRACKLISTING:
01. Jack DeJohnette New Directions: Salsa For Eddie G. (Jack DeJohnette)
Drummer Jack DeJohnette's New Directions Quartet is certainly full of talent. One of the colourful moments of this excellent album is Salsa For Eddie G.
Jack DeJohnette: Drums, Piano
Lester Bowie: Trumpet
John Abercrombie: Guitar, Mandolin Guitar
Eddie Gomez: Bass
Album: Jack DeJohnette New Directions In Europe
Concert recording, June 1979, Willisau, Switzerland,
©1980 ECM Records GmbH
02. Ralph Towner: Oceanus (Ralph Towner)
The incredible Oceanus it’s not only sounds wonderful, but also Ralph Towner has Jan Garbarek in tenor saxophone.
Ralph Towner: 12-String and Classical Guitar, Piano
Jan Garbarek: Tenor and Soprano Saxophone, Flute
Eberhard Weber: Bass, Cello
Jon Christensen: Drums, Percussion
Album: Solstice
Recorded December 1974 at Arne Bendiksen Studio,
Oslo, ©1975 ECM Records GmbH
03. Return To Forever: Vulcan Worlds (Stanley Clarke)
Return to Forever composed this album for listeners who grew up on rock and wish to explore jazz. These listeners they will find this stimulating music quite accessible.
Chick Corea: Acoustic & Electric Piano, Clavinet, Yamaha Organ, Chimes, Bell Tree
Stanley Clark: Electric Bass, Yamaha Organ, Chimes, Bell Tree
Lenny White: Drums, Percussion, Congos & Bongos
Album: Where Have I Known You Before
Recorded July – August 1974 at the Record Plant N.Y.,
©1974 Polygram Records, Inc. USA
04. Weather Report: Boogie Woogie Waltz (Josef Zawinul)
Right from the start, a vastly different Weather Report emerges here, one that reflects co-leader Joe Zawinul's developing obsession with the groove. It is the groove that rules this mesmerizing album, leading off with the irresistible 3/4 marathon deceptively tagged as the "Boogie Woogie Waltz" and proceeding through a variety of Latin-grounded hip-shakers.
Josef Zawinul: Synthesizer, Electric Piano
Wayne Shorter: Soprano & Tenor Sax
Miroslav Vitous: Electric Bass
Andrew White: Electric Bass
Dom Um Romao: Bell, Tambourine, Chucalho
Dom Murunga: Moroccan Clay Drums
Herschel Dwellingham : Drums
Album: Sweetnighter
Recorded February 3–7, 1973, ©1973 Columbia
05. John Handy : Hard Work (John Handy)
The album Hard Work was altoist John Handy's first as a leader since 1968."Hard Work" became a surprise hit, and overall, the set is open to the influence of R&B, although there are some strong moments from Handy on both alto and tenor.
John Handy : Alto & Tenor Saxophones, Vocals
Hotep Cecil Barnard : Keyboards
Mike Hoffmann : Guitar
Chuck Rainey : Electric Bass
James Gadson : Drums
Eddie “Bongo” Brown : Conga Drums & Percussion
Album : Hard Work
Recorded January 1976 at ABC Recording Studios Inc.,
Los Angeles Ca, ©1976 Impulse!
Transferred to the CD from the original LP record
06. The New Brubeck Quartet : Take Five (Paul Desmond)
This direct-to-disk double LP is really "a cut above" than the usual Dave Brubeck recordings. Pianist Brubeck is in good form and his three sons’ rhythm section also. This recording was cut direct to disk without any tapes and because of the destruction of the initial matrix, considered one of the rarest recording nowadays.
Dave Brubeck : Baldwin SD-10 Piano
Darius Brubeck : Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, Arp Odyssey, Arp Omni, Arp Pro Soloist, Roland Space Echo
Chris Brubeck : Rickenbacker Freetless Bass, Holton Bass Trombone
Dan Brubeck : Fibes Drum Set, Steel Drum
Album : A Cut Above
Recorded February 27, 28, 1978 at Sound Stage Studios Nashville, Tenn.
Transferred to the CD from the original Direct to Disc LP
07. Keith Jarrett : The Köln Concert, Excerpt From Part I (Keith Jarrett)
Recorded in 1975 at the Köln Opera House and released the same year, this disc has, along with its revelatory music, some attendant cultural baggage that is unfair in one sense: Every pot-smoking and dazed and confused college kid — and a few of the more sophisticated ones in high school — owned this as one of the truly classic jazz records, along with Bitches Brew, Kind of Blue, Take Five, A Love Supreme, and something by Grover Washington Jr. Nothing on this program — so ideally suited to CD — was considered before he sat down to play. All of the gestures, intricate droning harmonies, skittering and shimmering melodic lines, and whoops and sighs from the man are spontaneous.
Keith Jarrett : Piano
Album : The Köln Concert
Recorded January 24, 1975 live at the opera in Köln,
Germany, ©1975 ECM Records GmbH
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