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Miles Davis Quintet – Footprints

 

Miles. Wayne Shorter. Herbie Hancock. Ron Carter. Tony Williams*.

This is the supergroup Wayne Shorter joined when he left Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. He was the last man to join Miles’ Second Great Quintet. Herbie later remarked, “The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter. He still is a master. Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn't get changed.”

Wayne wrote & first recorded “Footprints” for his own album, Adam’s Apple, with Herbie on the keys, Reggie Workman on bass, and Joe Chambers on the kit. However, that album wasn’t released until eight months after Miles Smiles, where it closed out Side 1.

* Tony Williams is 21 here, and he’d been playing with Miles for four years already. Miles was twice his age. Neither made it to the turn of the century; Miles’ hard living caught up with him in 1991 at age 65, while Tony Williams was claimed by a heart attack in 1997; he was just 51. One hopes we are blessed to enjoy Ron Carter & Herbie Hancock a fair bit longer.

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Max Roach – “Tears for Johannesburg” + “Prayer/Protest” from “Tryptich”

Max Roach, drums; Abbey Lincoln, vocals; Eddie Kahn, bass; Clifford Jordan, tenor sax, Coleridge Perkinson, piano.

Live on Belgian television, possibly circa 1964. Roach’s We Insist! Freedom Now Suite is a landmark jazz album and an artistic jewel of the Civil Right Movement.

We get two pieces of ”Tiptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace” here. I’m not sure why the third was not included on the video, but it’s worth a listen to complete Roach’s thought. (Follow the link above.) He doesn’t simply “Peace” as a nirvana state. It’s jagged, weary, even incomplete.

”Tears for Johannesburg” was Roach’s artistic reckoning with the Sharpsville massacre, which I’d encourage you to read about — particularly right now.

Juneteenth marks the last arrival of the news of an emancipation formally proclaimed two and a half years earlier. By the time of its arrival in Galveston, the proclamation’s author had been reelected & assassinated. We should not forget that slavery continued in a couple Union states until the 6 December 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified and finally abolished the practice. Nor should we forget that last Union state to ratify that amendment was Kentucky — on 18 March 1976.

Johnson’s amnesty, Reconstruction’s failure, Jim Crow, the mass perpetuation Lost Cause myth, federal anti-immigrant laws, segregation, and redlining thwarted a national reckoning with the political, social, and moral devastation of slavery & racism for generations.

Juneteenth’s rightly a day of celebration. It’s also a reminder of how far we yet have to go as a country, how fragile progress can be. It is a call seeking a response, because the work of emancipation remains incomplete.

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Hiromi Uehara’s Trio Project – Desire

Hiromi is one heckuva pianist, with a long playing & recording career yet ahead of her. That's MFSB alum & legendary session man Anthony Jackson on the six-string contrabass (his invention) and ex-Judas Priest drummer Simon Phillips on the skins.

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