© 1962 Corner Pocket, Count Basie Orchestra Live Performance.
Various artists. I dare you listen to this without hitting the repeat button at least twice. Music is life – what in the hell do you know about living talking jive ’bout “Jazz has its roots in klezmer.” Shit is so not cool!
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© 1974 Herbie Hancock, Butterfly, Thrust. Columbia Records.
Fender Rhodes/Clavinet/Arp Synths: Herbie Hancock
Bass: Paul Jackson
Saxophone/Clarinet/Flute: Benny Maupin
Drums: Mike Clark
Percussion: Bill Summers
A brief lover of mine, in Vancouver, always played this album when he was in the mood. Such memories!
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© 1953. Groovin’ High, Live Performance, Verve Records
Alto Saxophone: Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker
Trumpet: Herbie Williams
Bass: Jimmy Woode
Piano: Rollins Griffith
Drums: Marquis Foster
Bebop is where it is at. Bird knows how to fly-without-moving.
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1899 Maple Leaf Rag, Scott Joplin
Piano: Scott Joplin.
This is such a favourite of mine. I include here as it is not traditional Jazz; however, as Scott Joplin would be reincarnated and be even more famous, I have chosen to include him here. That, of course, is because the reincarnated Scott Joplin is the performer, Prince with whom Merlin was completely and utterly besotted and obsessed – the only performer about whom he felt this way.
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© 1963 Impressions, John Coltrane Quartet, Impulse Records
Tenor Saxophone: John Coltrane
Piano: McCoy Tyner
Bass: Jimmy Garrison
Drums: Elvin Jones
Feature Portrait: David Lloyd Glover
Nothing beats ‘Trane’s focus!
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© 2009, Roy Hargrove Quintet.
Trumpet: Roy Hargrove
Piano: Jonathan Baptiste
Bass: Ameen Saleem
Saxophone: Justin Robinson
Drums: Montez Coleman
Pushing Black High Art forward!
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© 1963 Oscar Peterson Trio, Night Train, Verve Records
Piano: Oscar Peterson
Bass: Ray Brown
Drums: Ed Thigpen
Take me higher!
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Autumn Leaves: Kosma, Mercer, Prevent.
© 1950-1958, Ballards and Blues, Blue Note Records
Miles Davis and Various Artists
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© 1968 Ella Fitzgerald Live.
The gold Standard… I can’t imagine a week without Ella’s shamanic beauty inspiring my soul. Ella’s Michael Overleaves to follow and now to be found in the Michael Overleaves Appendix.
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Fitzgerald, Ella 1917<O>1996
This fragment is a fifth level mature artisan – second life at current level. Ella was in the passion mode with a goal of growth. An idealist, she was in the moving part of emotional centre.
Body type is Venus/Saturn.
Ella‘s primary chief feature was stubbornness and the secondary was self-deprecation.
Casting for Ella is fifth-cast in fifth cadence; she is a member of greater cadence four. Ella’s entity is two, cadre six, greater cadre 7, pod 408.
Ella’s essence twin is an artisan and her task companion is a sage – both extant.
Ella’s three primary needs were: expression, security and power.
There are 11 past-life associations with Arvin, 4 with Merlin.
This fragment has reincarnated and lives in an area of Chicago, is a one-year-old at this time (December 2013), female.
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© 1954 Sarah Vaughan
© 1978 How Long Has This Been Going On – Pablo Records
There are a few lifetime worth of memories associated with this recording… and they are all beautiful ones! Sarah’s Michael Overleaves to follow and are now to be had in the Michael Overleaves Appendix. I was surprised to have discovered that she was such a young soul but great art she created.
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Dreams are the poetic expression of the soul. 