Elvin Jones Jazz Machine

Elvin Jones Jazz Machine – Remembrance (1978/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:34 minutes | 857 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS Records

“When I played Remembrance the depth of my thoughts of John Coltrane were overpowering.”
– Elvin Jones

“Jones left an indelible mark on jazz drumming … he gave the drums a speaking voice that was entirely his own.”
– Jazz.com

For this 1978 album, drummer Elvin Jones brought along his Jazz Machine, a quintet with the somewhat unusual lineup of two saxophones (Pat LaBarbera and Michael Stuart both on tenor and soprano sax), guitar (Roland Prince), bass (Andy McCloud III) and Jones, of course, on drums. Sax player LaBarbera contributes four of the seven songs here. Ever popular, Jones and his Jazz Machine continued to tour and record right up to Jones’s death in 2004.

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Elvin Jones Jazz Machine – At Onkel Pö´s Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1981 (Remastered) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:13:38 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzline

Recorded live at at Onkel Pö‘s Carnegie Hall, in Hamburg in 1981, this concert represents a typical Jazz Machine live performance, and the selection of tracks feeds on concise themes and motives from all established sources of the hard bop era where the musicians get plenty of room to stretch out and Jones specially proves his mastery again and again.

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