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Welcome, friends, to this week's edition

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of In the Groove Jazz and Beyond. My

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name's Ken Laster. We're going

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to hear some music that I've been listening to during

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the week. We're going to hear from

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some musicians who had

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their heyday in the 50s and 60s, the hard bop

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era, and on through the 70s,

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jazz rock fusion, as well

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as some prog rock as well to finish

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off the show. But we're going to begin with

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Sonny Rollins. He released a few albums

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with the West Coast Rhythm Section. Sonny

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Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders. This

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album features Sonny Rollins on tenor

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sax, Barney Kessel on guitar, Hampton

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Hawes on piano, Leroy Vinegar on

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bass, and Shelly Mann on drums.

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We're going to begin with their

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version of Alone Together.

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This is Sonny Rollins.

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Thank you.

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you you

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you you

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you

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you

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I want to see if I can do

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this mission.

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he Ah,

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that unique sound of the chromatic

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harmonica from Toots Theilman's from

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the album Only Trust Your Heart. That

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is actually a 1988 release. We

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heard Speak No Evil written

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by Wayne Shorter, of course, and

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that quartet is Toots Theilman's

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on harmonica. Mark Johnson

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on bass, Joey Barron on drums,

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and Fred Hirsch plays piano

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and produced that album as well.

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And the chromatic harmonica has

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that slide on it that allows

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the harmonica player to play the

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full 12-note chromatic

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scale as opposed to a blues harmonica

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that plays only the major notes of a

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given scale. Toots Theilman's

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was probably the greatest chromatic

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harmonica player in jazz of all

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time. That tradition is

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continued in modern day from

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Gregoire-Maré and in the

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pop world by Stevie Wonder, who

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is one of the few artists that

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play chromatic harmonica in pop

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music or blues. Okay,

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we're going to continue on as I promised

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with music from the hard-bop era. We're

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going to hear in this next set from

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Hank Mobley and Freddie Hubbard.

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We're going to start with Hank Mobley from the album

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Soul Station. A beautiful

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composition. I love this jazz standard.

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If I should lose you from Hank Mobley.

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Thank

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you. Oh

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Oh Oh

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You You

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You The

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the the

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the the

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the the

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the

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him

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Freddy Hubbard, that great trumpet

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player. This one is from an album

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entitled Ready for Freddy, a 1961 recording. We

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heard the track, Eridus. This

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has Freddy Hubbard on trumpet, Wing Shorter

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on tenor saxophone, McCoy Tyner on

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piano, Art Davis on bass, and Elvin

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Jones on drums, along

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with Bernard McKinney on euphonium.

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Before that we heard from Hank Mobley

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from a 1960 recording, entitled Soul Station.

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And this has a great quartet of Hank

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Mobley on tenor sax, Wynton Kelly

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on piano. Paul Chambers on bass

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and Art Blakey on drums. I

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love those two tracks. Let's

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continue with an extended piece from

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McCoy Tyner. We're going to hear

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a recent version of

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Sama La Yuca. I first heard this

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as the title track from an album that came

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out back in the 70s but he

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re-recorded it this with a new quartet

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in 2007. The quartet

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is McCoy Tyner on piano, Joe

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Lovano on tenor saxophone, Christian

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McBride on bass, and Jeff Tain

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Watts on drums. And

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as I said it's an updated version

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of Sama La Yuca. Let's hear from

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McCoy Tyner.

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you you

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you you

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fork

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fork

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fork fork

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fork fork

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fork

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he added

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a new moon

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home t

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v

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ah he

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he he he

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ha ha he

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he ha

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you you

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you you

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You You

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You all

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oh

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And we just jolted you into

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the fusion era on that last

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track. That is John McLachlan

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from the album John McLachlan Electric

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Guitarist. It features some of the great

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collaborations he did in the early 70s.

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Things like Tony Williams Lifetime and Mahavishnu

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Orchestra and collaborations

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he did with Carlos Santana and

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that is what you just heard. The track was

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Friendship from John McLachlan

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Electric Guitarist. That

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has Carlos Santana on guitar,

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Tom Koster on organ, Neil Jason

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on bass, Nirvana Michael Walden

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on drums and Armando Parraza

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on congas. You

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are listening to In the Groove Jazz and

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Beyond. My name is Ken Laster. We

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are a radio show on WWUH 91.3

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FM in Hartford, Connecticut.

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So check that out. We're

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going to finish today's show with Carlos Santana.

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This is from an album entitled Barbaletta.

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It's a 1974 recording.

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It features prominently

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Erto Moriera and Flora

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Porum, great percussionists

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and vocalists from Brazil, as

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well as Tom Koster on keyboards

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and Stanley Clark on bass, Leon

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Chancellor on drums and

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Armando Parraza on percussion. We're

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going to hear two tracks from this album

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beginning with Flora Day Canela,

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and then Promise of a Fisherman.

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Thank you for listening folks. Come back next week

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for another edition of In the Groove Jazz

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and Beyond.

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Day Canela, and then Promise of a Fisherman.

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Day Canela, and then Promise of a Fisherman.

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now well

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will a

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