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I am heavily biased as I saw this band live about five times. There are sound samples on the Sonorama label's Bancamp pages, they reissued this and the second Mombasa album. https://sonoramarecords.bandcamp.com/album/african-rhythms-blues

Must be this one: That's the band before Tom joined, but still sounds very lively. Had forgotten about this and just ordered a copy myself.

How refreshing after listening to some samples of the recent Keith Jarrett release .....

Whenever I get an opportunity, I will give it a listen.

IIRC fans and critics in Germany had mixed feelings about his musical directions. He rose to first fame with McCoy Tyner and Weather Report and then turned to funky beats that others, IMHO, did better. I found his playing in Herbie Hancock's band rather uninspired, too much heavy disco beat. But with those high heeled boots he used to wear he couldn't execute intricate bass drum patterns. His audience here expected more jazz from him, but he did not give them what they wanted.

They were based in Berlin and touring Germany all the time. I saw them five times, I think, Tom Nicholas was my first conga drum teacher. Frankly, I think none of their albums caught their groove when playing live. Lou Blackburn and Carmell Jones knew each other from their California days and both were members of Berlin radio big bands for several years, but I think Belgium based trumpeter Doug Lucas fitted better into Mombasa.

Played this twice today. I love this album. It shows what a great tenor saxist Eddie Harris was.

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Bellson is a much more interesting drum soloist than Rich.

The Hawk Talks session fron this double CD. A Mosaic box set of the Bellson Clef/Verve sessions would be really great. Much more varied and interesting than Buddy Rich.

Are there separate license fees for liner notes?

I, too, parted with it but probably would like it again ..... so it goes. It's a pretty wild album. Wilder than most ECM albums released after that one.

I own close to 10.000 CDs and LPs, the latter may be 10 to 15% as I keep only LPs that are not on CD or the latter sound inferior. I have a hard drive filled with MP3s etc. but rarely use it. I tend to burn CDs of the music I want to listen to more often. I rarely stream music, I do not want to pay for any service that I probably will not use that often, and I would have to change my hifi setup to do so. I have more music that I will have time to listen to, and I am still buying too much. I will have to downsize sooner or later, which I already do with my library once a year to keep it at its size, but need a second hand dealer for that. I sell my used books myself at a satisfactory rate, but am unsure about selling discs myself at current shipping rates and all the effort that goes into the process. And I love reading liner notes.

Licensed from Vogue. All on this CD:

Listening to this right now. Thanks for the recommendation.

A very good album, and a must for anybody who wants to hear Eddie Harris without electronics.

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