Kellee Patterson – Maiden Voyage Vinyl transfer in 24-bit/192 kHz | 300 dpi scans | Jazz, Vocal Jazz 2020 Real Gone Music RGM-1189/ Original Release 1973 Black Jazz Welcome to what might become a new tradition here: Flabbergasted Vibes’ Twelve Days of Christmas. There’s been a ton of great music that has helped me get…
Lonnie Smith Think! Original release 1969 Blue Note This 2019 reissue, Blue Note 80 Vinyl Reissue Series This week the world of music lost one of the greats of the jazz organ, “Dr.” Lonnie Smith. I regret never having caught him live during his return to the spotlight, as he had quite the career. He…
Gene Russell New Direction Real Gone Music RGM1018 Released: 29 Aug 2020 Limited Edition, RSD exclusive, Clear with Black Swirl US Original release on BLACK JAZZ RECORDS as BJ/1 in 1971 Well, it has been nearly two months since my last post here. I had planned to share this record at the beginning of the…
Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival Original release 1972 Polydor (Japan) 1996 CD reissue Verve Records 314531641-2 Dipping back into the Roy Ayers Ubiquity catalog, this live performance hails from pretty early in their trajectory, and this version was expanded from the original LP to include 4 extra tracks for what…
The great Abbey Lincoln has been slated for some attention on this blog for years. At various points I have had one or another record from her early career lined up in the proverbial queue and yet they somehow missed the train. I’ve had a bit of melancholy and existential blues lately and her music…
Abbey Lincoln – Hank Jones When There Is Love 1993 Gitanes Jazz Productions / Verve Records – 314 519 697-2 Genre:Jazz || Style:Bop, Post Bop I have been wanting to do some posts about the great Abbey Lincoln ever since I started this blog, and yet for some reason it’s never happened. Let this be…
