Artist : Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab
Title : Winds & Skins (The Swedish Radio Recordings 1978)
Gennre : Jazz+Funk
Year : 2008
Date : 01/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 07
Label : Mellotronen Records MELLO LP 6
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 29:28 min
Size : 42,4 MB
Tracklist:
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01.nus 03:10
02.the distorted sioux indian 05:20
03.a memo to art blakey 02:58
04.ghandi's candies 07:00
05.arroz con leche 06:41
06.r÷ster kring temat god och dalig 00:29
service
07.s÷ndagsbladet 03:50
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29:28 min
Winds & Skins transpired to be the very last set of
recordings made by Afro-Cuban percussionist Sabu
Martinez, who sadly passed away precisely one
month after this December 1978 session was
committed to tape.
The album draws a line under a career that saw the
illustrious musician performing alongside Dizzy
Gillespie and Art Blakey as well as releasing a string
of out-and-out classic Latin jazz records.
Here the noted conguero teams up with the lauded
saxophonist/flautist Sahib Shihab, who himself played
with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane,
Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and Quincy Jones among
others.
Shihab makes great use of electrified sax on pieces
such as 'The Distorted Sioux Indian', a strange
combination of incredibly organic, multi-layered percussion
(beautifully mixed too, it should be said) and jarringly
robotic staccato phrasing from the reeds.
Elsewhere 'Ghandi's Candies' taps into a surreal kind
of Easternised harmony with an off-kilter rhythmic
complexity, only for the main set to be closed by an
arrangement of traditional tune 'Arroz Con Leche',
returning Martinez to his Latin roots.
Wonderful stuff all round.
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