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ROY PORTER SOUND MACHINE - JESSICA

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Roy Porter Sound Machine for Chelan USA from 1974. Roy Porter: Drums - Jimmy Holloway, Leslie Hargrove: Guitar - Tollie Moore: Electric Piano - Bob Davis: Organ - Charles Jones: Fender Bass - Oscar Dye: Congas - Hense Powell, James Smith: Trumpet, Flugelhorn - Lester Robertson: Trombone - Jack H. Fulks: Tenor Sax, flute - Sone' Campbell: Tenor Sax. Ridiculously hard to find private pressing out of LA from drummer Roy Porter and his Sound Machine. Every cut a stone cold killer on this fully loaded breaks and beats bomb - shufflin' beats and drums all over ""Funky Twitch" fucked up funky latin madness on "Wow" while "Drums for Darryl" is a scrambler and drums duet and of course the organ grinder groove of "OOh La La". All Killer No Filler No Doubt Whatsoever.

GEORGE GRUNTZ - NOON IN TUNISIA

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George Gruntz for Saba from 1967. Piano, Conductor, Composed By - George Gruntz ; Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Tambourine - Sahib Shihab ; Bass - Eberhard Weber ; Drums - Daniel Humair ; Violin - Jean Luc Ponty ; Goblet Drum [Darbouka] - Hattab Jouini , Salah El Mahdi ; Ney - Salah El Mahdi ; Oboe [Zoukra] - Moktar Slama ; Percussion [Bendire] - Hattab Jouini , Jelloul Osman , Moktar Slama , Salah El Mahdi ; Tabla - Hattab Jouini , Jelloul Osman ; Bagpipes [Mezoued] - Jelloul Osman. Producer - Joachim Ernst Berendt George Gruntz organized this studio recording as an opportunity for blending the worlds of jazz and Arabian music, though utilizing original music of his own. With Sahib Shihab (soprano sax, flute, and tambourine), violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, bassist Eberhard Weber, and drummer Daniel Humair, plus four Bedouin musicians playing traditional Arabian reed, string, and percussion instruments, Gruntz conceived the nearly 31-minute six-part "Maghreb Cantata" as the centerpie

NAOSUKE MIYAMOTO SEXTET - STEP!

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 Naosuke Miyamoto Sextet for Three Blind Mice Japan from 1973. Kunji Shigi - trumpet & fluegelhorn; Takashi Furya - alto sax; Takeshi Goto - soprano sax & tenor sax; Masayoshi Yoneda - piano; Naosuke Miyamoto - bass; Shoji Nakayama  drums Those of you with long memories may remember a comp I put together and posted here back in 2006 entitled "The Mood Is Modal" which opened with Naosuke Miyamoto's sublime modal masterpiece "One For Trane".Now and only 5 years later(!!!) here's the whole lp for the first time in blogland and it's a bomb. Miyamoto had been recording since 1960 with the likes of Sadao Watanabe and George Kawaguchi (more from him in a future post) and was something of an old pro when he assembled this sextet using players from both the new generation of young lions and more established musicians.Two Harold Land compositions (check the storming version of "Step Right Up To The Bottom" ) and three originals from Goto,Yoneda a