Pharoah Sanders

Track: "Japan" (B1)
Album: Tauhid
Format: LP
Label/info: Impulse AS-9128 stereo, 1967. Inspired by the Tokyo concert trip with Coltrane in the summer of '66.

Caught the man himself this summer at the Atlanta Jazz Fest. Still a major musical and spiritual presence.

John Lee Hooker

Track: "My Love Comes Down For You"
Album: That's Where It's At!
Format: LP
Label/info: Stax STS-2013, 1970. Reissued 1979 as STX-4134. 
For a brief second you would swear that these discordant riffs were by Andy Gill of Gang of Four.

Clifford Jordan Quartet

Track: “Dear Old Chicago” (A2)
Album: Bearcat
Format: LP
Label/info: OJC-494 reissue. Originally Jazzland LP 69 mono/969 stereo, 1962. Four city cats caught in their prime - with Jordan as the gifted, unsung composer. Clifford Jordan (ts), Cedar Walton (p), Teddy Smith (b), J.C. Moses (d).

Johnny Griffin Quintet

Track: "The Message" (A2)
Album: The Little Giant
Format: LP
Label/info: OJC-136 reissue. Originally Riverside LP 1149 (stereo), 1959.
Every now and then you need a real blowing session to shake the cobwebs from your head and woofers. Johnny Griffin (ts), Blue Mitchell (t), Julian Priester (tb), Wynton Kelly (p), Sam Jones (b), Albert Heath (d).

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