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Re: adventurous guitarists that might rightly be considered modern jazz or post-bop: Zoller is a great callout. If we're talking early, mid-60's, there is a bit of a recorded scarcity of guitarists operating in more contemporary contexts. In retrospect, I'd assert that the advent of Hendrix really altered the the perceptual range of possibilities for guitar. Speaking as a guitar player, I think a lot of this has to do with technology and innovation. The vernacular(s) of jazz guitar operate in this liminal space between horns and piano. It isn't an ideal instrument for either expressive melodicism or harmonic density - the guitar can do both, but other instruments are better suited to either extreme. It isn't a coincidence that a slew of new, decidedly modernistic guitarists emerged in the 1960s. The minute louder amps and effects pedals became more widely available - and after guitarists like Hendrix established what could be done on the instrument - it became easier for people to find a role for guitar in modern jazz ensembles. What many may not understand about gain on guitar is that it compresses your signal. Overdrive/distortion/fuzz are not merely effects - they actually change how lines articulate. A guitarist with a well-controlled fuzz pedal can play as fluidly as a horn player, even with the jazz/high-gauge strings that allow for stability of intonation. All this is to say that a guy like Grant Green may very well not have played like Grant Green had different technology been available in his youth. (And that's the story of music.) Case in point: consider Ray Russell, a very capable English guitarist who plays in a linear style not fundamentally dissimilar to a Zoller or Coryell (although he's somewhat less fluid and more angular-melodic - more akin to Jim Hall than Tal Farlow): This is from '68. You can already hear the inflection of the Coltrane-Miles continuum of modalism - which is to say that he's playing as more of a melodist and less of a vertical (harmonic) improviser. He just hasn't put it all together yet - he's missing that extra layer of expressivity. This is from '71: The fuzz grants Russell and extra layer of expressivity - there are explicit overtures to American fusion and free jazz. This version of Russell (essentially the same that would play "Stained Angel Morning," which by a certain metric might be considered the guitar equivalent of Spiritual Unity) is capable of contributing to a more contemporary ensemble in a meaningful way. See what happened to Derek Bailey toward the end of the '60s, James Blood Ulmer in the '70s, and Sonny Sharrock after his resurgence and you get roughly the same picture.

RIP. Contributed to some great recordings!

This is the kind of stuff that I had in mind. Music that lands in the same place as the Miles 2nd quintet, Coltrane’s classic quartet, the music that Shorter/Henderson/McLean/Hill were recording for Blue Note… it’s telling that these guys never included guitarists in their recordings prior to 1968. Someone mentioned Larry Coryell upthread - good callout. I’d put him in the same bucket as Szabo, Zollar.

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Reinhard Goebel complete Archiv box, disc 38.

They didn't like the way Red Mitchell was playing on Torrorow is the Question, so Ornette and Cherry went to the Black Hawk where Percy Heath was playing with the MJQ. Lewis let them sit in, and flipped out over OC and DC, and they got Percy for the album. Lewis recommended them to Ertegun for Atlantic. Kenny Clarke told Loren Schoenberg that he left the MJQ, because "John Lewis hated Jazz"

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Howard Shore / Ornette Coleman / London Philharmonic Orchestra – Naked Lunch (Complete Original Soundtrack) ... US 2016 Original Artwork by Rich Kelly

A rich art dealer is obsessed with paintings of Lenin, and he has made his life's goal to buy every single genuine piece of art that has the figure of Lenin no matter who the artist is or what the cost. After decades of searching and buying, he is proud to say he has in his vault every single art item picturing Lenin apart from one, a painting called “Lenin in Paris” from an insignificant Soviet artist contemporary to Lenin, that was lost a little time after Lenin’s death. His passion is so wild that he turns the whole world upsidedown to find the valuable painting; and he does, in a small village in Siberia. He sends his people to buy the painting no matter what the cost. He sends an insane amount to the owner, and travels to the village to take the painting back to his home himself. He enters the villagers house, and asks with impatience, “Where is it? Where is it?” The villager shows him a covered painting which he carefully uncovers in order to admire the masterpiece. The painting shows a black gentleman in flagrante delicto with a blonde lady. Baffled, he asks the villager “What is this? Who is this woman?” The villager responds, “Ah, that is Lenin’s wife.” “WHAT? And where is Lenin?” “In Paris.”

Michael Domagala has signed with the Redblacks. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/05/18/redblacks-sign-national-k-michael-domagala/ https://3downnation.com/2024/05/18/ottawa-redblacks-sign-canadian-kicker-michael-domagala-release-one/

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Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros "Chocolate En Guajira" (Caiman Records) 1983 .... a perfect showcase for the trumpet star ..... and Mariano Rivera on baritonsax shines too ....

Herman Wright Ray McKinney Both from Detroit and less well known than their colleagues Paul Chambers and Doug Watkins

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 52.

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers “Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World Volume 2” Blue Note Japan 24 Bit by RVG lp facsimile cd

Op.18/1 and Op.18/2

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Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen – Belonging. ECM 1050 ST [1974]

Back to some music after tasks. The New Elvin Jones Trio “Puttin’ it Together” Blue Note Japan 24 Bit by RVG lp facsimile cd Each time I spin this one I like it more. It went from “meh” years ago to “wow” today over the years.

Red Tipp Jr. - Provin' My Worth