Night Watch
Sunday April 21st, 2013 with Dāv Fot
Jazz and Jazz-ish takes from the Record show (incl. John McLaughlin w/ Lifetime, Magma, etc.)
Decided to split the 'Best of The Ottawa Community Record Show' takes into two programs - this one deals with the more fusion and jazz-oriented LPs. Alas, the 'true' Jazz of a Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine live performance and Don Ellis Orchestra at Monterey will have to wait until another day, as, is sometimes the case, 3 hours is plainly not enough time...
| Start the evening of fusion and jazz with some of the 'big names in their clory days', Lifetime, with John McLaughlin, Tony williams, Jack Bruce, and Larry Young, playing with all the energy their names (and their relative youth) imply. |
| Vuelta Abajo John McLaughlin w/ Lifetime - In Retrospect (from 'Turn It Over') |
| Emergency John McLaughlin w/ Lifetime - In Retrospect (from 'Emergency') |
| To Whom it May Concern - Them/Us John McLaughlin w/ Lifetime - In Retrospect (from 'Turn It Over') |
| OK, so these next artists aren't strictly speaking, jazz, but they embody a lot of the creative spirit that the jazz genre is supposed to embody... |
| Discombobula Exploding Meet - Circus of Disharmony 
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| Egyptian ARP Hissanol - The Making Of Him
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| City Man Dillinger - Dillinger
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| Next little feature - happy to have found Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll with Trinity LP 'Streetnoise'. Some great late-60's pre-prog psych/jazz/funk (how's that for a mouthful?)... |
| Tropic of Capricorn Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll with Trinity - Streetnoise |
| All Blues Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll with Trinity - Streetnoise |
| Indian Rope Man Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll with Trinity - Streetnoise |
| Finally Found you Out Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll with Trinity - Streetnoise |
| Staying back in the 60's, but rolling to Canada for a little-known Vancouver band that started as a blues band and ended up playing jazz - Mock Duck. Here's a track from the first release of an LP originally recorded in the late-60's... |
| Funky Song Mock Duck - 'Test record'
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| Le Passe du Grande Flambeau Octobre - Les Novelles Terres
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| Les Folleries Maneige - Ni Vent, Ni Nouvelle
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| Finish the set with some Quebec bands that started in a more prog vein and eventually moved towards a fusion-based style, them moving on to some bands from France... one band evolving from the other - the Gong of Daevid Allen vs. The Gong of Pierre Moerlen... |
| Dynamite/I am Your Animal Gong - Camembert Electrique |
| Cat in Clark's Shoes Gong - Shamal |
| Tropical Fish/Selene Gong - Camembert Electrique |
| Chandra Gong - Shamal |
| Time's running tight, so right into the next set a few tunes from Fusion classics, Ian Carr's Nucleus! |
| Odakamona Ian Carr's Nucleus - Roots |
| Solar Wind Ian Carr's Nucleus - Out of the Long Dark |
| Roots Ian Carr's Nucleus - Roots |
| From fusion to a 'branch' of fusion known as Zeuhl, and the band that pioneered the style, Magma - this LP features some minimally-recorded live material from a their pivotal mid-70's period. Following that, a solo LP from on-time Magma Keyboard player, Francois Cahen... |
| On Zanka Magma - Ihedits |
| Gamma Magma - Ihedits |
| A Froggy Day Francois Cahen - Great Winds |
| Oriental Wind Francois Cahen - Great Winds |
| OK, now, at long last, we're in Jazz Territory - time to spice it up with some newer Canadian Material... |
| Green Shift Richard Underhill - Kensington Suite
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| The Future Of Space Travel Today Lloyd Hanson's Thrash Peninsula - A Different Drummer
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| And we finish it up with a track from late Jazz-drumming great, Paul Motian. So the Jazz-vibe wasn't as prevalent as I'd hoped... but, there is a Freddie Hubbard and Don Ellis LP in the wings, so future shows have hope! |
| Rebica Paul Motian - Conception Vessel |
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