The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note. ![]() Thanks for taking the time and let me know what you think. Carla Bley / Andy Sheppard / Steve Swallow. Right now there are five compilations, each one focussing on on a major jazz label, so there’s Prestige, Blue Note, Savoy, Riverside and Contemporary for now. Two important notes: 1: there’s absolutely no commercial incentive involved here 2: the podcasts are a hundred percent non stop music, so no talking, jingles or add’s etc. But only if you think that’s appropriate. I thought, if you shared my enthusiasm, they perhaps could be linked somehow to your blogspot. Initially this was a project intended for Izaak, my son, who’s only two years old right now, but I think they’d be quite interesting for any true classic bop and hard bop jazz lovers. (Specifically the recent Roy DuNann piece.) So first of all: thanks for that! Secondly, the reason for me writing you is that I’ve been quite busy organizing my jazz collection and have compiled and uploaded a handful of homemade radio shows on the podcast platform Mixcloud. 1984 Textured Cover Original Featuring Weather Reports Great Percussionist, Manolo Badrena With Steve Slagle, Hiram Bullock. Heavy Heart is a progressive big band music album recording by CARLA BLEY released in 1984 on CD, LP/Vinyl and/or cassette. Hi Steven, You don't know me - and I don't really know you, but I’ve been enjoying your Jazz Profiles blogspot for some time now. In short, Heavy Heart is a light, breezy album without being formulaic, and one which fabricates jazz-pop from evocations of the revived electric bands of Miles and Gil, Marvin Gaye's "Here, My Dear," and assorted sultry, sensuous tunes. ![]() ![]() The tunes are still Bley-like, hip and exquisite the harmonies elongated under the fluid, piping alto of Steve Slagle and the snorting, muscular trombone of Gary Valente (on "Ending It") the solos and arrangements always take an unusual turn a phrase or two before becoming predictable and Bley's ethnic sensibility takes the form of Latin lilts and tempo-altering shuffles. This is not to say that Heavy Heart is as unctuous as David Sancious or as vapidly, technically soulful as David Sanborn, but most of the indelible Bley trademarks have been skillfully manicured or excised. Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg May 11, 1936) is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader. Either answer coming from Bley the prankster could be a half-truth, but it is unquestionable that Heavy Heart tends toward the sentimental excesses of the New York studio scene rather than a bluesy, quirky reply to love, fulfilled or not.
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