Vinyl Vault Chick Corea, Again and Again Share
This Week the Vinyl Vault continues its remembrance of Chick Corea by featuring his 1983 album “Again and Again; The Joburg Sessions” on the Elektra Musician label. Corea passed away on February 9, at age 79.
“Again and Again” was recorded in Johannesburg, South Africa while the band was on tour there in 1982. The band sandwiched this session into an afternoon before an evening concert. It’s essentially a “live” recording in the studio with no overdubs. At the time, Corea was joined by Steve Kujala on flute and tenor and soprano saxes; Carles Benavent on electric bass; Don Alias on percussion, and Tom Brechtlein on drums.
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Vinyl Vault Finesse by John Klemmer Share
This week the Vinyl Vault goes to the mellow side with a 1983 release from tenor sax man John Klemmer and his album “Finesse.” The album was released on the short-lived Elektra Musician label which promoted itself as a label which allowed musicians to express themselves without corporate interference. The label also prided itself on the high quality/high fidelity records it produced.
John Klemmer had released about two dozen records before “Finesse” covering several different musical styles. He had scored commercial success in the mid-70s with titles such as “Touch” and “Barefoot Ballet” which helped pave the way for Smooth Jazz. “Finesse” leans that direction at times but includes more straight ahead jazz elements.
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Usually, by mid-January, the Stock Show is in full swing in Denver. This year, however, it’s yet another pandemic casualty. But that won’t stop the Vinyl Vault from putting a touch of twang into Tuesday night. The Vault features Willie Nelson’s “Stardust.” A real genre buster when it was released in 1978, the album turned out to be immensely popular, hitting Number One on the Billboard Country chart and ranking number 260 on Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums of all time. It eventually sold enough copies to qualify as quintuple platinum.
That album nearly exploded the heads of the Columbia record company suits when it was in production because Nelson at the time was one of the leaders of the Outlaw Country movement and here he was singing mostly jazz standards! But it obviously worked.
Vinyl Vault Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Share
This week the Vinyl Vault acknowledges the passing of French jazz pianist Claude Bolling by featuring probably his best known work, “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano.” Bolling passed away on December 29, 2020 at the age of 90.
“Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano” was a hit in the 1970s and into the 80s. It stayed on the Billboard charts for nearly 10 years. The record could be called a fusion album; but not a fusion of jazz and rock as that term is usually applied, but a fusion of jazz and classical music. At the time of the album’s release in 1975, Columbia records referred to the music as “crossover,” no doubt to distinguish it from the louder and more bombastic fusion.
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