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The Diamond Five for Fontana from 1964. Personnel: Cees Slinger: piano; Harry Verbeke: tenor sax; Cees Smal: trumpet, cornet and valve trombone; Jacques Schols: bass; Johnny Engels: drums. Please check the comments as Chazz has also ripped The Five Diamonds-Finally After Forty Years cd reissue from Japan and will be posting the link shortly.Over to you Chazz! I don't post donations at OIR but just had to make an exception when this was winged across the pond to me from Chazz Katz.It's a very rare piece of hard bop from Holland which made a blink and miss it reissue on cd some years ago in Japan (original vinyl goes for silly money anywhere between $600-$1000) and has never appeared in blogland before.Here's the notes and cheers to Chazz for his rip! Nice work chap - All Killer No Filler! The Diamond Five, a Dutch quintet led by pianist Cees Slinger, was founded in 1959 and lasted until 1965. They were based at the Sheherazade Club in Amsterdam and were quite popular, playin...

Bobby Hutcherson for Blue Note from 1974. Hutch is playing four sets in London this weekend so Katonah from Private Press and I will be propping up the bar for his late spot at Scotts tomorrow night. So here's a 3rd repost for his evergreen "Cirrus" ....All Killer No Filler. This was my very first Bobby Hutcherson post here at OIR back in may 2006.It was ripped from my vinyl copy @192 in those days-I've reupped it @320 this time and taken it from the superb Mosaic Select box set.Here's my original narrative: Cirrus finds Bobby Hutcherson resuming his partnership with tenor saxophonist Harold Land, and the results are marvellous. The pair work with pianist Bill Henderson, trumpeter Woody Shaw, bassist Ray Drummond, drummer Larry Hancock, saxophonist/flautist Emmanuel Boyd and percussionist Kenneth Nash on this set of originals.The album starts with a great version of Woody Shaw's "Rosewood" while the rest of the set is written by Hutcherson and includ...

Dave Pike for Muse from 1978. Vibraphone - Dave Pike / Bass - Luther Hughes / Cello - Luther Hughes / Drums - Ted Hawkes / Guitar - Ron Eschete / Keyboards , Sax - Tom Ranier / Vocals - Carol Eschete. KGML has just posted "Spirits Samba" so dug the lp out for those who would like to hear more. Picked this up in Tony Monson's Disc Empire in the early 80s after hearing Chris Bangs spinning "Swan Lake" and found it had yet another bona fide jazz dance classic to be featured in the shape of "Spirits Samba". Here's an apathetic review from amg: Some Afro-Latin, some fusion and things in between from vibist Dave Pike. Pike is a good player, but sometimes his arrangements bog down between pop and jazz. His style is more remniscent of Red Norvo, with its lighter, less aggressive and flowing lines.

Randy Weston For CTI from 1972. Arranged By - Don Sebesky;Bass - Bill Wood (2) (tracks: B1) , Ron Carter ;Drums - Bill Cobham ;English Horn, Clarinet, Flute - George Marge ;Flugelhorn - Alan Rubin , John Frosk , Marvin Stamm ;Flute - Hubert Laws ;French Horn - Brooks Tillotson , James Buffington ;Oboe, Clarinet, Flute - Romeo Penque ;Piano - Randy Weston Saxophone [Tenor] - Grover Washington, Jr ;Synthesizer [Moog] - David Horowitz Trombone - Garnett Brown , Warren Covington , Wayne Andre ;Trombone - Paul Faulise Trumpet - Freddie Hubbard ;Vocals - Madasme Meddah Super heavyweight banger from CTI - trust Randy Weston to dispense with Creed Taylor's saccharine stylings.All Killer blah blah blah.... Another underwhelming review from Mr Yannow: Randy Weston's most popular record, this Lp (which he had mixed feelings about) features Weston not only on piano but electric keyboards. Backed by Don Sebesky arrangements and assisted by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and tenor-saxophonist Gr...