Kenny Wheeler's Masterpiece: "Music for Large & Small Ensembles"
Introduction:
In the realm of jazz composition, few names command as much respect and admiration as Kenny Wheeler. Released in 1990 by ECM Records, “Music for Large & Small Ensembles” stands as a monumental testament to Wheeler’s prowess as a trumpeter, flugelhorn player, and, above all, a brilliant composer. At its core lies “The Sweet Time Suite,” a composition of extraordinary depth and…
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jazz season continues, in spite of inclement weather
I don't have anything clever to say about this album but the first track really strongly brings to mind pbs bumpers from when I was a kid
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Neil Ardley
keyboards, synthesizer, liner notes
Bob Bertles
alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Paul Buckmaster
cello, producer
Tony Coe
tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Ian Carr
trumpet, flügelhorn
Geoff Castle
piano, synthesizer
Dave McCrae
piano, synthesizer
Roger Sellers
drums
Ken Shaw
guitar
Brian Smith
tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Roger Sutton
bass
Barbara Thompson
alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
Trevor Tomkins
percussion, vibraphone
John Taylor
keyboards, synthesizer
Stan Sulzmann
wind instruments
Martin Levan
engineer
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John Pasche
design
Gull Graphics
design
Phil Jude
cover photography
Derek Jewell
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Omega Radio for March 14, 2022; #301.
Tyrone Davis: “In The Mood”
Edition Speciale: “Mr. Business”
G. Grant & S. Park: “Good Company”
Lalo Schifrin: “Midnight Woman”
Lee Gagnon: “Reve”
Scratch, The: “Surface Noise”
Sonny Rollins: “Caress”
Westbound Freeway: “Right Or Wrong”
Joe Sample: “In All My Wildest Dreams”
Skull Snaps: “It’s A New Day”
Blackrock: “Bad Cloud Overhead”
Frank Ricotti + Tony Hymas + Stan Sulzmann: “Morning Call”
Jades, The: “Lucky Fellow”
Manfredo Fest: “Braziliana No. 1”
Revolution Compared To What: “Go To Work”
Eric Hochberg & Andy Potter: “World Thing”
George Duke: “Seeing You”
Jean-Daniel Mercier: “Apres Noel”
Michelle Lamb: “Natural High”
Paz: “Solar Wind”
Annette Peacock: “Survival”
Hysear Don Walker: “Children Of The Night”
Airto: “Juntos”
Ian Carr’s Nucleus: “Ariadne”
Jacky Giordano: “Wafa”
Les Crane: “Friends”
Living Funk: “Fools Love”
Pat Martino: “M'Wandishi”
Peter Jacques & Quadriga: “Cancao”
Primitive: “You’re Everything To Me”
Thee Lakesiders: “Parachute”
David T. Walker: “Feeling Feeling”
Terry Callier: “Just As Long As We’re Together”
Tom Scott: “Sneakin’ In The Back”
Tracks: “Bottleneck”
Alberto Baldan Bembo: “Sweet Helen”
Fat Larry’s Band: “Down On The Avenue”
Alan Parker: “Aerial Camera”
Giovanni Civitenga & Lucia Frittoli: Dew Drop (2e Versione)“
Pepper Hellard & New Hollywood Gargoyles: “They’re Out There”
Anthony King: “Filigree Funk”
The Crusaders’ “A Ballad For Joe (Louis)”
Bonus crate-digging and sampling; jazz, fusion, soul, R&B, funk.
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Conducting
Julian studied Music at U.E.A. majoring in Saxophone and Clarinet. He also studied orchestral conducting directing the Student Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir including performances of the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Stravinsky and Milhaud. During his time at U.E.A. he attended the Canford Conducting Summer school studying with George Hurst and Adrian Leaper.
Since leaving college he has focused on his first love the Tenor Saxophone and working as a Jazz improviser, band leader and composer, but interspersed with this he has also continued to conduct / MD various ensembles across a broad musical spectrum from Jazz to contemporary classical music
In 2001 Julian directed the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Singers in a concert of the music of Oscar winning composer Stephen Warbeck as featured on the BBC TV programme 'Classic Challenge’, the music commemorated the Normandy landings in WW2 and the performance took place on board a cross channel ferry, the orchestra and choir performed to an audience of Normandy Veterans.
In 2010 Julian directed the BBC Big Band in the London Jazz Festival with guests Billy Jenkins and Iain Ballamy at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre London
In 2013 Julian conducted a performance of Brian Eno’s ‘Music for Airports’ at ‘Bold Tendencies’, Peckham Car Park as part of the London Contemporary Music Festival 2013.
Julian has directed the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music Postgraduate Jazz Ensemble in concerts of
- the Big Band music of UK Saxophonist and composer Stan Sulzmann,
- he co-led a project of the music of Ornette Coleman ‘Harmolodic Ensemble’ with ex - Loose Tubes Trumpeter Chris Batchelor,
- directed a performance of the Trinity Laban Conservatoire Big Band playing the music of Jaco Pastorius featuring the in-demand bassist Laurence Cottle at London's Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club.
In 2021 Julian directed the Royal Academy of Music Big Band in a performance of the Big Band music of UK Saxophonist and composer Jason Yarde.
In October 2023 Julian conducted the BBC Big Band in a recording session for the forthcoming album with Jacqueline Dankworth and Charlie Wood at Livingston Studios in London
For all conducting enquiries please contact management at Julian Siegel dot com
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Stan Sulzmann – Sojan
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Omega Radio for March 14, 2022; #301.
Tyrone Davis: “In The Mood”
Edition Speciale: “Mr. Business”
G. Grant & S. Park: “Good Company”
Lalo Schifrin: “Midnight Woman”
Lee Gagnon: “Reve”
Scratch, The: “Surface Noise”
Sonny Rollins: “Caress”
Westbound Freeway: “Right Or Wrong”
Joe Sample: “In All My Wildest Dreams”
Skull Snaps: “It’s A New Day”
Blackrock: “Bad Cloud Overhead”
Frank Ricotti + Tony Hymas + Stan Sulzmann: “Morning Call”
Jades, The: “Lucky Fellow”
Manfredo Fest: “Braziliana No. 1”
Revolution Compared To What: “Go To Work”
Eric Hochberg & Andy Potter: “World Thing”
George Duke: “Seeing You”
Jean-Daniel Mercier: “Apres Noel”
Michelle Lamb: “Natural High”
Paz: “Solar Wind”
Annette Peacock: “Survival”
Hysear Don Walker: “Children Of The Night”
Airto: “Juntos”
Ian Carr’s Nucleus: “Ariadne”
Jacky Giordano: “Wafa”
Les Crane: “Friends”
Living Funk: “Fools Love”
Pat Martino: “M'Wandishi”
Peter Jacques & Quadriga: “Cancao”
Primitive: “You’re Everything To Me”
Thee Lakesiders: “Parachute”
David T. Walker: “Feeling Feeling”
Terry Callier: “Just As Long As We’re Together”
Tom Scott: “Sneakin’ In The Back”
Tracks: “Bottleneck”
Alberto Baldan Bembo: “Sweet Helen”
Fat Larry’s Band: “Down On The Avenue”
Alan Parker: “Aerial Camera”
Giovanni Civitenga & Lucia Frittoli: Dew Drop (2e Versione)“
Pepper Hellard & New Hollywood Gargoyles: “They’re Out There”
Anthony King: “Filigree Funk”
The Crusaders’ “A Ballad For Joe (Louis)”
Bonus crate-digging and sampling; jazz, fusion, soul, R&B, funk.
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MARCH 14, 2022 (#301)
Tyrone Davis: “In The Mood”
Edition Speciale: “Mr. Business”
G. Grant & S. Park: “Good Company”
Lalo Schifrin: “Midnight Woman”
Lee Gagnon: “Reve”
Scratch, The: “Surface Noise”
Sonny Rollins: “Caress”
Westbound Freeway: “Right Or Wrong”
Joe Sample: “In All My Wildest Dreams”
Skull Snaps: “It’s A New Day”
Blackrock: “Bad Cloud Overhead”
Frank Ricotti + Tony Hymas + Stan Sulzmann: “Morning Call”
Jades, The: “Lucky Fellow”
Manfredo Fest: “Braziliana No. 1”
Revolution Compared To What: “Go To Work”
Eric Hochberg & Andy Potter: “World Thing”
George Duke: “Seeing You”
Jean-Daniel Mercier: “Apres Noel”
Michelle Lamb: “Natural High”
Paz: “Solar Wind”
Annette Peacock: “Survival”
Hysear Don Walker: “Children Of The Night”
Airto: “Juntos”
Ian Carr’s Nucleus: “Ariadne”
Jacky Giordano: “Wafa”
Les Crane: “Friends”
Living Funk: “Fools Love”
Pat Martino: “M'Wandishi”
Peter Jacques & Quadriga: “Cancao”
Primitive: “You’re Everything To Me”
Thee Lakesiders: “Parachute”
David T. Walker: “Feeling Feeling”
Terry Callier: “Just As Long As We’re Together”
Tom Scott: “Sneakin’ In The Back”
Tracks: “Bottleneck”
Alberto Baldan Bembo: “Sweet Helen”
Fat Larry’s Band: “Down On The Avenue”
Alan Parker: “Aerial Camera”
Giovanni Civitenga & Lucia Frittoli: Dew Drop (2e Versione)“
Pepper Hellard & New Hollywood Gargoyles: "They’re Out There”
Anthony King: “Filigree Funk”
The Crusaders’ “A Ballad For Joe (Louis)”
Producers, crate-diggers, samplists, and vinyl patrons are once again welcome into a world that’s unlike ours. We fill in for Purple Starlight for a bonus quarterly volume of jazz, fusion, soul, R&B, and obscure finds for our Spring broadcast season. Just as these types of shows have literally changed us through WUSB, we hope it will change yours through us at Omega Radio.
We have plenty of new, current, and relevant sounds to play for all of you local and world-wide listeners of Omega and WUSB in the weeks to come. Thank you for supporting us.
March 26, 2022 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega
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A Sip of Solitude
A Sip of Solitude
It’s 18:29 and Bank Holiday Monday in the U.K….. I’m sitting in the nook at my home – ‘Owl’s Hoot’…. it’s been warm and only now do I feel a coolish breeze flooding through the leaves around me. In the nook, I sit at the table in the presence of Tina May singing Maybe September · with possibly, Stan Sulzmann. Just gorgeous, my fellow travellers… worth checking Tina May out.. lovely Jazz singer.
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A lesson ...
... in how to make a tender tune sound really unsentimental: Here’s the Kenny Wheeler Quintet playing Everybody's Song But My Own.
This is the opening track from their 1987 album Flutter By, Butterfly (1987, Soul Note – 121 146-1). The Kenny Wheeler Quintet are:
Kenny Wheeler - flugelhorn
Stan Sulzmann - saxophone
John Taylor - piano
Dave Holland - bass
Billy Elgart - drums
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Sulzmann/ Iles/ Holland: Lush Life review – a joyous meeting of minds
Sulzmann/ Iles/ Holland: Lush Life review – a joyous meeting of minds
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There’s a rare unanimity of thought when saxophonist Stan Sulzmann and pianist Nikki Iles play together. The way they latch on to one another’s ideas is often surprising but never at cross purposes. They have held these elegant and good-humoured conversations on two previous albums, and this time, with the addition of bassist Dave Holland, the duo becomes a trio.…
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Music for Large & Small Ensembles
Kenny Wheeler
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Music for Large & Small Ensembles is an album by Canadian jazz trumpeter Kenny Wheeler which was released in 1990 by ECM Records.
Kenny Wheeler – trumpet, flugelhorn
Norma Winstone – vocals
Evan Parker – soprano & tenor saxophone
Ray Warleigh – alto saxophone
Stan Sulzmann – tenor saxophone, flute
Duncan Lamont – tenor saxophone
Julian Argüelles – baritone saxophone
Derek Watkins – trumpet
Henry Lowther - trumpet
Alan Downey – trumpet
Ian Hamer – trumpet
David Horler – trombone
Chris Pyne – trombone
Paul Rutherford – trombone
Hugh Fraser – trombone
John Taylor – piano
John Abercrombie – guitar
Dave Holland – double bass
Peter Erskine – drums
Jan Erik Kongshaug – engineer
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The Stan Sulzmann Big Band - Birthdays, Birthdays: CD, Album For Sale | Discogs
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UK: 13th Gateshead International Jazz Festival
UK: 13th Gateshead International Jazz Festival
Misha Mengelberg Exhibition
Monday 13th March–Friday 14th April
A selection of images by international and Dutch photographers criss-crosses the long career of...
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Laura Jurd's Dinosaur and Daniel Herskedal Trio with Royal Northern Sinfonia Strings
Friday 31st March, 2017. 7pm
This concert features two of Europe's most highly regarded young jazz instrumentalist/composers,...
The First Ladies of Swing: Clare Teal and her Hollywood Orchestra with Guy Barker and guest vocalists
Friday 31st March, 2017. 7.30pm
Accompanied by her 17 piece orchestra conducted by world class trumpeter/composer Guy Barker,...
Double Bill: Binker & Moses plus Strobes
Friday 31st March, 2017. 9.45pm - 11.35pm
In just 2 years, fiery saxophone-drum duo *Binker & Moses* have won a loyal following for their...
Three Nations Under One Groove: National Youth Jazz Orchestra, BuJazzO & NJJO
Saturday 1st April, 2017. 1pm
This remarkable concert sees the UK’s acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra join forces with...
BBC Radio 3 Jazz Line-Up Stage
Saturday 1st April 2017, 2pm - 5.45pm
The Jazz Line Up Stage features surprise guests from the festival. For future broadcast on BBC...
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Family Show with the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP)
Saturday 1st April, 2017. 2pm
The Instant Composers Pool (ICP) has never confined itself to styles or genres, although it is most...
Misha and so on... A film on Misha Mengelberg
Saturday 1st April, 2017. 3.30pm
For Misha Mengelberg, the forgetting has begun. He is waiting for a taxi he didn't call to go to a...
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The Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra from Amsterdam plus Garibaldi Plop
Saturday 1st April, 2017. 7pm
Celebrating both 50 years of the group, and also Han Bennink's 75th birthday, the Instant Composers...
The Ronnie Scott's All Stars present The Ronnie Scott's Soho Songbook
Saturday 1st April, 2017. 7.30pm
Since its humble beginnings as a basement bar in the depths of London’s Soho, through to the...
Double Bill: GoGo Penguin and Shobaleader One
Saturday 1st April, 2017. 8pm
Hailing from Manchester, acoustic-electronica trio GoGo Penguin are pianist Chris Illingworth,...
Neil Cowley Trio: Spacebound Apes Live
Saturday 1st April, 2017. 10.30pm
Spacebound Apes is an inspiring story about a character called Lincoln, created by Neil Cowley...
Miles Mosley
Saturday 1st April, 2017. 10.45pm
Upright bassist, composer and producer and founding member of the West Coast Get Down collective,...
Family Jazz All Stars with Zoe Gilby
Sunday 2nd April, 2017. 11am
Zoe Gilby lends her stunning vocals to this fun-filled tribute to jazz singers past and present....
Jazz North East Stage
Sunday 2nd April 2017, 1pm - 6pm
Jazz North East present artists from the North East and further...
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Double Bill: Sulzmann/Iles Duo and Trish Clowes ‘My Iris’ Quartet
Sunday 2nd April, 2017. 2pm
Saxophonist Stan Sulzmann and pianist Nikki Iles are iconic figures on the UK jazz scene composing...
Improvisation Masterclass with the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
Sunday 2nd April, 2017. 3pm
Instrumentalists and singers of any age are invited to join members of the Instant Composers Pool...
Jambone with special guests Zoe Gilby and Matt Anderson
Sunday 2nd April, 2017. 5pm
Described recently as 'A significant new voice in British Jazz' (Jazz Journal), composer and...
Jazz Africa / Jazz Cuba Triple Bill: Richard Bona's Mandekan Cubano; Alfredo Rodriguez Trio and Shabaka and the Ancestors
Sunday 2nd April, 2017. 7.30pm
A concert that charts a jazz journey from South and West Africa to the latin jazz of Cuba - and...
The Alan Broadbent & Georgia Mancio Songbook Quartet
Sunday 2nd April, 2017. 7.45pm
Songbook is the exquisite playing and writing partnership between double GRAMMY award-winning jazz...
Tomasz Stańko Quartet
Sunday 2nd April, 2017. 8pm
Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko has been a seminal figure in the evolution of European jazz since...
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UPCOMING DATES 2023
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TUESDAY 7th FEBRUARY BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY HALL STAGE
THURSDAY 9th FEBRUARY TURNER SIMS, SOUTHAMPTON
FRIDAY 10th FEBRUARY SHEFFIELD JAZZ
SATURDAY 11th FEBRUARY DERBY JAZZ, DEDA STUDIO THEATRE
SUNDAY 12th FEBRUARY LONDON, RONNIE SCOTTS JAZZ CLUB
BBC Jazz Award winning saxophonist Julian Siegel embarks on a major tour in February 2023 with the Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra celebrating his acclaimed album Tales from the Jacquard (Whirlwind Recordings). The Orchestra features some of Julian's favourite musicians from the UK and European scenes and presents a rare opportunity to see this handpicked, stellar line-up perform together (see full tour line up below).
The tour will feature Julian’s music for Jazz Orchestra from the new album, from expansions and arrangements of music written for small band to the suite commissioned by Derby Jazz composed especially for the orchestra ‘Tales from the Jacquard’ plus new arrangements and compositions written for this tour. ’Tales from the Jacquard’ draws inspiration from the lace-making process and the Jacquard cards, which controlled the lace knitting machines. (Julian’s parents and family ran a lace manufacturing business in Nottingham for over 50 years).
Julian gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Council England in making this tour possible.
“One of the major highlights of this year’s jazz calendar”
London Jazz News
“Essential listening”
The Jazz Mann
"A beautiful balance between an open writing and more traditional pictures."
★★★★ All About Jazz
"Razor-sharp section work and a string of superlative solos."
Bebop Spoken Here
The JULIAN SIEGEL JAZZ ORCHESTRA contains renowned bandleaders, composers and soloists in their own right. Conducted by Nick Smart, the band features saxophonists Stan Sulzmann, Tori Freestone, Nathaniel Facey (Feb 7, 10 + 11 ) Paul Booth (Feb 9 + 12), Michael Chillingworth and Gemma Moore, Trumpeters Tom Walsh and Steve Fishwick alongside Claus Stötter and Percy Pursglove from NDR Bigband Hamburg, Trombonists Mark Nightingale, Trevor Mires, Harry Brown and Richard Henry, Guitarist Mike Outram, all based around the dynamic and creative rhythm section of his long standing group the Julian Siegel Quartet, featuring pianist Liam Noble (Feb 7 + 12), bassist Oli Hayhurst and drummer Gene Calderazzo. The highly in-demand pianist Ross Stanley also features on three dates of the tour (Feb 9, 10+11)
(see below for full line up)
JULIAN SIEGEL JAZZ ORCHESTRA - LINE UP
Saxes / Clarinets / Compositions / Arrangements Julian Siegel
Conductor Nick Smart
Trumpets Tom Walsh, Percy Pursglove, Steve Fishwick, Claus Stötter
Alto Saxophone Mike Chillingworth, Nathaniel Facey (7th, 10th, 11th) Paul Booth (9th, 12th)
Tenor Saxophone Stan Sulzmann
Tenor Saxophone and Flute Tori Freestone
Baritone Sax and Bass Clarinet Gemma Moore
Trombones Mark Nightingale, Trevor Mires, Harry Brown
Bass Trombone and Tuba Richard Henry
Guitar Mike Outram
Piano Liam Noble (7th, 12th) Ross Stanley (9th, 10th, 11th)
Double and Electric Bass Oli Hayhurst
Drums Gene Calderazzo
JULIAN SIEGEL SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Julian Siegel is an in-demand saxophonist on the UK and European Jazz scene who has worked with many of the top figures in the music. In 2007, he was awarded the BBC Jazz Award for Best Instrumentalist. He is currently touring with the Julian Siegel Quartet, featuring pianist Liam Noble, bassist Oli Hayhurst and drummer Gene Calderazzo.
As a sideman Julian has played in large ensembles led by Kenny Wheeler, Andrew Hill, Hermeto Pascoal, Michael Gibbs, Django Bates, John Taylor, Nikki Iles, Stan Sulzmann, NDR Big Band, Colin Towns and Jason Yarde to name a few. Inspired by these great experiences and coupled with a long standing wish to write for larger ensemble, Julian formed the Julian Siegel Jazz Orchestra embarking on its debut UK tour in March 2017.
READ MORE ABOUT THE WRITING OF TALES FROM THE JACQUARD
COMPOSER BLOG
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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMdCF2eWiU)
Fontana – SFJL 922 - Released 1969.
Graham Collier Sextet – Down Another Road.
Bass – Graham Collier.
Drums – John Marshall.
Flugelhorn – Harry Beckett.
Piano, Oboe – Karl Jenkins.
Saxophone Alto, Tenor – Stan Sulzmann.
Trombone – Nick Evans.
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Year One “Transitory River”
Joe South & The Believers “Walk A Mile In My Shoes”
Continental Showstoppers “Not Too Young”
Ceyleib People, The “Changes”
Bama “Thanksgiving”
Overton Berry Trio, The “Hey Jude”
Sun Ra “Outside The Time Zone”, “Love In Outer Space”
Crystal Touch “You’re For Me”
Dave Richmond “Nightwatch”
Bullet “The Peterman”
Louis Brunelli “Love Letter”
Reg Tilsley “Clarrisa”
Fred Bongustos Flexus “Le Faro Da Padre”
Roy Kent “More Than Yesterday”
Victor Feldman “Skippin’”
Marion Jarvis “Hell Of A Fix”
Bloodstone “Natural High”
Robert Lamm “A Lifetime We”
Helio Matheus “Mias Kriola”
Whitehead “Sho You Right”
Creative Source “I’d Find You Anywhere”
Vaneese & Carolyn “Goodbye Song”
Pat Stallworth “Questions”
Tom Ranier “Good For You”
Larry McGee “Revolution The Burg”
Long Night, The “Who Can I Turn To?”
Tranzam “August 9th”
Wee “You Can Fly On My Aeroplane”
Jackie Ross “Take The Weight Off Of Me”
Eddie Russ “Feelin’ Fine”
Harold Land “In The Back, In The Corner, In The Dark”
Tony Hymas & Frank Ricotti & Stan Sulzmann “Penthouse Sweet”
Lonnie Liston Smith “Bridge Through Time”
Garry Davis & The Vendors “Funk Machine”
Sauveur Mallia “Galactics”
Besombes & Rizet “Lundi Matin”
Steve Khan “Dr. Slump”
Håkon Graf & Sveinung Hovensjø & Jon Eberson & Jon Christensen “Alive Again”
Tomorrow's People “Open Soul”
Bonus Omega; crate-digging and vinyl finds.
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