Don Cherry Family TV The Seventies

Codona 4

Codona was Don Cherry, percussionist Nana Vasconcelos and sitarist Collin Walcott, they made three studio albums for ECM in the late seventies and early eighties. Usually dismissed as World Music Fusion, they probably weren't the coolest band ever, but here is their fourth album, Codona 4, which is primarily made up of live tracks selected from various concerts in Switzerland and Austria 1978 -1982 that have a lot of chanting, african rhythms and very repetitive minimalist patterns. Don Cherry is featured on kalimba, vocals, and dousen ngoni (african harp, simliar to kora).

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Marion Brown Geechee Recollections (edit)

Marion Browns 1973 classic for Impulse! edited down to 14 minutes! Geechee Recollections is filled with laid back southern summer feelings with a deep african vibe. You want to hear the whole album? Tell Impulse! its time to reissue the Marion Brown catalog! The funkiest tune is called "Buttermilk Bottom" and is heavily featured in this condensed version of the LP, however most of the poetry got cut out.

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Don Cherry Bitter Funeral Beer 1981 (studio)

"Based on Funeral Music From The Lo-Birifor, Sisaala and Ewe Peoples of Ghana. Field recordings by Bengt Berger feature voices of women of Kundar village crying at the funeral of a small child. They sing that the child did not know how to live, and ask the dead to help it. " Saddest most beautiful ultra african free jazz ever.

Recorded January 1981 Stocklhom, Sweden.

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Prince Tapes 1977 -1984

Prince invented new wave, electro, and totally awesome outtakes and demos!!!


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Stevie Wonder Live 1970's

In the seventies, Stevie Wonder concerts were a glorious celebration of improvised madness prominently featuring Moogs, Clavinets, and Vocoders. He frequently just played brief snippets of songs and then quickly jumped from one idea to the next.
Stevie Wonder was basically a total spazz, rearranging old songs, writing new songs, performing high energy super jams all in front of huge audiences at enormous concert venues!!!


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Don Cherry Bitter Funeral Beer Live 1984

Bengt Berger went to Ghana, studied the african jams and then hooked up with Don Cherry and did a concert in Bombay India in 1984.
There's a studio version too somewhere...


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John Coltrane infinity 1972

Probably one of John Coltrane's most controversial albums, Infinity is made from unreleased tracks recorded in 1965 and 1966, which Alice Coltrane then added harp, tamboura, and organ to in 1972. Then she overdubbed Charlie Haden playing bass, and then she wrote orchestral arrangements and overdubbed strings. This beautiful and amazing album was reissued in Japan a few years back but its US rerelease is unlikely. Two tracks feature the "classic" quartet with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones and the other two tracks feature the Pharoah Sanders, Rashied Ali era group.

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Pharoah Sanders 1968 Live

1968 concert at Antibes Jazz Festival with Lonnie Liston Smith on piano, Sirone on bass, and Majeed Shabazz on drums. Highlights include Venus (from Tauhid) and The Creator Has a Master Plan (no vocals).

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Don Cherry Organic Music Society

Recorded in Sweden on a hippie / commune / organic farm. Equal parts free jazz, freek folk, and manson family jams.... Apparently released in 1971 although some sources say 1972 or later.

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