Damo - Jazz Show # 1

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I have a few jazz records to share and this mix starts with a fantasy of a “strange enchanted boy… who wandered very far” only to learn that “the greatest thing was just to love and be loved in return” in
Grady Tate’s’69 version of “Nature Boy”. The song was originally written by Eden Ahbez - heavily influential in the Hippie movement in L.A. In the 1940s Eden was traveling around in sandals with shoulder-length hair, beard, and white robes. Moving on to another vocal track from California based Tenor and Soprano man Curtis Amy. “Please Send Me Someone To Love” recorded in 1967 is a “peace prayer” with the deep-voiced Eva Harris (Amy’s wife) singing “Heaven please send to all mankind, Understanding and peace of mind, And if it’s not asking too much, Please send me someone to love” - it is soulful and swinging. Next up: Donald Byrd’s rendition of “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child” is church-sounding, with two male and two female voices that make up the Donald Byrd Singers. Other tracks include Monty Alexander’s “Monticello”, Terea’s deep and cosmic “Pretty Bird” and “Get Out Of My Life” by Thad’s Jones & Mel Lewis featuring a sample that was later used in Jill Scott’s “Brotha” (from her Who Is Jill Scott? album from 2000). It pleased me a lot when I found this record given that I played Jill Scott’s album to death when it came out. The show ends with Sun Ra - a musician that claimed he was of “Angel Race” and not from Earth, but from Saturn, abandoning his birth name and taking the name and persona of Sun Ra (Ra meaning: ancient Egyptian god of the sun). Sun Ra also made some very good music and “Sleeping Beauty” had at least twenty musicians present in the studio when recorded in 1979, taking up a whole side of the album - its pure galactic and peaceful space-jazz.

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