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Jack Costanzo for GNP from 1956. Jack Costanzo: Bongos and Leader/ John Anderson, Paul López, Tony Terran: Trumpets Willy Gallardo: Timbales/ Manuel Ochoa (Kaskara): Vocals and Maracas /Eddie Gómez: Claves/ Ramón Rivera: Conga/Eddie Cano: Piano/Ernesto Montez: Bass/Marda Saxon: Vocal Hard as nails latin banger - All Killer No Filler - highly recommended! "Abaniquito" was the dance floor destroyer back in the day - you needed an oxygen mask after cutting the rug to that one! Here's a review by John Child: Dubbed "Mr. Bongo" by the eminent jazz critic Leonard Feather, Jack Costanzo is credited with introducing the bongos into American popular music when he joined Stan Kenton's band in 1947. He deliberately emulated the trumpet conjunto format of Cuba's La Sonora Matancera to achieve the album's fat sound and tips his hat to the group by covering their hit "Melao de Caña". Personnel include the incredible pianist Eddie Cano and trumpeter Paul ...

Potter & Tillman for Poet Records from 1981. Rare private press album on a jazz funk tip from Potter and Tillman which has also been referred to/known as "Steinway & Sons" Not my usual bag but there's a few bombs on here in the shape of "New Anniversary Waltz" and "Sing A Simple Song Of Praise" plus the two intro cuts. One for the soul boys in 81...and probably now for many of the followers of OIR(or possibly not given only 3 comments against 200+ d/loads in first 2 days)

Les McCann for Pacific Jazz from 1964. Best album Les ever did imo which features the mighty latin dancefloor bomb "McCanna". Les plays with his LTD trio, plus the added percussion of Willie Correa, who plays bongos, conga, and timbales on the album for a strong latin feel that's missing from Les' other recordings.5 cracking originals,couple of standards(just love the rolling "St James Infirmary")and a stomping Mancini-Mercer tune. Can't believe this has never got a reissue. All Killer No Filler.

Kathryn Moses for PM Records from 1979. Kathryn Moses Vocals,Flutes & Saxophones ;Doug Riley Pianos ;Robert Piltch Guitars Erica Goodman Harp ;David Piltch Basses ;Terry Clarke Drums ;Buff Allen Drums Don Alias Percussion And another one for the flute freaks this time from the vaults of PM Records who were responsible for some of the most hard ass fusion committed to vinyl-think Steve Grossman , Stone Alliance ,Elvin Jones.Well,here's something a little different from them. "Music In My Heart" was the big tune back in the day for the likes of Paul Murphy and Chris Bangs along with the funky "Lucky Duck". Dusty Groove had it on a blink and miss it cd reissue from Celeste(now oop) so here's their review.My post is ripped from the original long gone vinyl: The second album from Kathryn Moses a sweet mix of warm vocals, funky flute, and even a bit of sax! Kathyrn's as great a singer as she is an instrumentalist and the album offers equal parts of her tal...

Ray Mantilla for Inner City from 1977. Ray Mantilla-Percussion;Jeremy Steig-Flute;Carl Ratzer-Guitar;Eddie Gomez-Bass;Joe Chambers-Drums,Piano,Marimba Heavy duty latin business from Ray replete with white trousers, purple polo neck , medallion and a shit eating grin - GEARS!!!!!! All Killer No Filler - end of story. Bomb.

Eddie Marshall for Timeless from 1977. Emanuel 'Manny' Boyd (ss, ts), Bobby Hutcherson (vib), George Cables (p), James Leary (b), Eddie Marshall (d, per) Check the line up - yep it's Hutcherson's band from the mid 70s but with the drummer as leader. Four compositions from Marshall,one from Hutch and an old warhorse in "Salt Peanuts". Quality assurance guaranteed no need to sit and pontificate about this one! Here's an excerpt from an interview which Eddie did with Eric Muhler : Eric: How many CD's have you recorded in your own name? Eddie: Just one. One CD and one album. Eric: Record album? That vinyl stuff that nobody knows about anymore? (Laughter) Eddie: Yeah. I don't know if I even have it here. In my own name that's what I've done. Eric: Really? How come not more? Eddie: Because…you make records to sell them! (Laughter) Eric: Not necessarily! (More laughter) Not here in the Bay Area! Eddie: The first one I made I was working with Bobby...

Dewey Redman for Galaxy from 1979. Dewey Redman-Tenor,Musette,Harp,Vocal;Fred Simmons-Piano,Cowbell;Mark Helias-Bass;Eddie Moore-Drums,Percussion,Saw,Vocal. Paul Murphy flogged this to Chris Bangs who would drop the cut "Unknown Tongue" from the lp in his DJ sets back in the early 80s which is where I first heard it.What a tune!!! Kicking off with the high pitched Middle Eastern whine of Dewey on musette which is joined after a few minutes with the bowed bass of Mark Helias....then comes the marching snare and percussion of Eddie Moore and the bow is dumped for a bass line worthy of Cecil McBee while the musette keens on....until the whine drops down and out while the bass/percussion remain then Dewey begins speaking in tongues...shouting and gabbling away like a man possessed but that rhythm keeps it all storming ahead...then back in with the musette to a fade...Bomb! Can you imagine the impact this had on a crowd of southern soul boys all waiting to hit the floor to Lonnie ...

Don Burrows for Columbia Australia from 1969. Haven't posted a soundtrack for aeons so here's a piece of vinyl all the way from Simon's homeland via the miracle(or should that be curse?)of ebay. Now very rare and highly collectible, it is in its own right a very fine set of late Sixties Australian modern jazz, performed by the cream of Sydney's jazz and studio session scene of that time including Burrows, George Golla, Graham Lyall, Ed Gaston and John Sangster Here's what James Pianta from Votary Records (who put it in his top 10 Aussie albums) had to say about it at aussiefunk blogspot : 2000 Weeks OST – Don Burrows (1968) OK, I must admit that a lot of Burrows solo work in the 70’s is not really my thing. I guess that’s the problem with being so prolific, some work is bound to suffer. But this late 60’s soundtrack to the Tim Burstall film on the other hand is simply brilliant. I have never seen the film, as I don’t think it ever saw a VHS release. It’s a dark and ...

Les Demerle for Bar T from 1978. Les DeMerle-Drums;Dido-Percussion;Don Menza-Tenor,Soprano,Flute;Jim Coile- Alto , Tenor,Soprano,Flute;Rex Robinson-Bass;Ramsey Embick-Rhodes,Clavinet,Synthesizers;Ralph Rickert - Trumpet,Flugelhorn;Ronald Muldrow-Guitar Les DeMerle and Transfusion with another supercharged 70s fusion banger.Heavier on the funk side for this outing with some fucking awful vocals from Josh Hanna thankfully limited to a couple of cuts.Subtle it aint but Don Menza's "Sambandrea Swing" sets the floor on fire and Stu Goldberg's "Quetzal" is pretty good too.