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albums where the rhythm-section is the real draw


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Phil Woods - Musique du Bois (Muse) - also a Don Schlitten production

this is not the original cover (the original was better)

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A great recording IMO.

Mine too, and also agreed on the cover. Love that late 60's/early 70's period of adventurousness in Woods.

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One of the things I find interesting about Soul Jazz is that much of its development has been by rhythm TEAMS, rather than by individual musicians, which is normally the case.

Fifties

Wild Bill Davis/Bill Jennings/Chris Columbus

Doggett/Butler/Shepherd

Silver/Blakey

Early sixties

Timmons/Jones/Hayes

McDuff/Benson/Dukes

Patton/Green/Dixon

Late sixties

Dr Smith/Benson/Muhammad

Earland/Sparks/Muhammad

Spencer/Sparks/Muhammad (AKA The Mod Squad)

MG

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"Jenkins / Jordan / Timmons" was the first album that came to mind... and Jaki Byard, too - though not specifically with any bass/drum-team (I love Booker too much to listen to those albums because of the rhythm section anyway).

One rhythm team that has yet to let me down is Miller/Moholo - amazing, whererever they turn up!

But again, I hardly buy an album because of them...

This here's the original cover, I assume?

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Fine album!

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Stan Tracey quintet with two young saxophonists and an absolute inferno of a rhythm section: An incredibly aggressive, on-the-beat bassist; Clark Tracey, a hyper, kick-ass, tough-guy drummer; and Stan Tracey, piano heir to Monk (and to Monk's great swing) in solo and accompanying with off-center chords and rhythms. Heard them in a London pub two autumns ago and for a long time thereafter I was convinced S.T.'s was the only way piano ought to be played. Do any forum members in England happen to know the bassist's name?

Wilbur Ware is a prime attraction on every recording he made.

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