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"Musical Odyssey" with Professor G (archive)

Sunday, September 14, 2025 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Jazz Specialty

Artist Song Album Label Comments
Max Roach Abstrutions Members Dont Git Weary Atlantic Records 1968 release
Elysian Spring Lotus Glass Flowers Despa Press 1969 release; they were a quartet (Rainer Bertrams on piano, vibes, flute, Bruce Krasin on sax & flute, Lenny Ezbicky on drums, Jimmy Bridges on bass). Only 500 copies of the original were made. It finally got a repress on the label Le Tres Jazz Club.
Jazz Symphonics Athena The Beginning Luv N' Haight 1968 release. The band started as teens out of an old garage with old equipment. Bandleader was Larry Nash (piano), drummer was Woodrow Theus Jr, sax player was Herman Burns. It was Tony Poinsett on congas, Robert Miranda on bass, & Jerry Jackson on trumpet
David Axelrod Warning Talk, Part III The Edge Capitol
Dorothy Ashby Afro-Harping Afro-Harping Verve 1968 release
The Bad Plus This Guy's In Love With You Prog Do the Math Records 2007 release. Trio of Reid Anderson (bass), Ethan Iverson (piano), David King (drums)
Noel Pointer Phantazia Phantazia Blue Note 1977 release
Jean-Luc Ponty Waving Memories On the Wings of Music Atlantic 1975 release; band includes Patrice Rushen on keyboards & Ray Parker Jr on electric guitar
Irreversible Entanglements Open The Gates Open The Gates International Anthem
Tortoise Oganesson (Makaya McCraven Remix) Oganesson Remixes International Anthem
Jeff Parker Four Folks Forfolks International Anthem/Nonesuch
Evan Parker & Matthew Shipp Abbey Road Duos Part 7 Abbey Road Duos Treader 2008 album, improvised
Alabaster DePlume Now (Pink Triangle, Blue Valley) GOLD: Go Forward In the Courage of Your Love International Anthem 2022 release
Fabiano Do Nascimento / Sam Gendel Foi Boto The Room Real World
Mary Halvorson About Ghosts About Ghosts Nonesuch
Terry Callier Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun) What Color Is Love Cadet 1972 release
Yussef Dayes Chasing the Drum Black Classical Music Brownswood / Cashmere Thoughts / Nonesuch
Shabaka and the Ancestors The Coming Of The Strange Ones We Are Sent Here by History Impulse!
Kirk Lightsey & Rudolph Johnson with the All Stars Fresh Air Habiba Gallo/Outernational Sounds Never released originally outside South Africa when it came out in 1974, a "holy grail" jazz album
Pharoah Sanders Africa Africa Timeless
Jaimie Branch simple silver surfer FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise International Anthem