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Full Moon Hacksaw

The influ­ence of John Coltrane is enough ahead of its time for the arrival of recent young play­ers like Teo­dross Avery. Then there are vin­tage record­ings like the rare French horn-ist John Graas with gui­tarist Howard Roberts. Lady instru­men­tal­ists & singers grace our air­waves next with Paula Har­ris and Nic­ki Par­rott, vocal­ists plus piano and bass respec­tive­ly. Sax­o­phon­ist Dave Leib­man is chaot­ic in trib­ute to his for­mer employ­er Miles Davis, and we revis­it a mag­nif­i­cent album with pianist Phineas New­born with Ray Brown & Jim­mie Smith the drum­mer. There are the blues with Spoon, Jim­my With­er­spoon, in the Nixon erathings dont change much. Jim Coop­er plays vibes, and Longineu Par­sons plays brass to wrap hour # 1. Bill Evans goes and asks Alice, Pon­cho Sanch­es wel­comes Chick Corea, and lean gui­tar play­ing is heard from Toron­tos Ed Bick­ert. Gen­uine­ly smooth and light jazz must be Fred­die Hub­bards Lit­tle Sun­flower. The late trum­peter Roy Har­grove wel­comes the late sax­o­phon­ist Stan­ley Tur­ren­tine for a pre­cious track, and we get a chance to spin Jamaican jazz with gui­tarist Ernest Ran­glin. A pair of new releas­es con­clude this episode, from vocal­ist Douye Qua­tro fol­lowed by bassist Avery Sharpe. Time to refile my records, neck­ties, drums AND COF­FEE for anoth­er ses­sion, my des­ti­na­tion for the dura­tion, Hack­saw Jazz.