Tag Archives: Flying Dutchman Productions
COUNT BASIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA-AFRIQUE.
dereksmusicblog ♦ February 19, 2014 ♦ 2 Comments
COUNT BASIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA-AFRIQUE. By 1970, Count Basie was sixty-six and a legend of jazz. The Grammy Award winner had achieved just about everything. Count Basie had come a long way since he dropped out of school to play the piano at a silent movie theatre. Soon, he was playing regularly. Whether it was …
LONNIE LISTON SMITH AND THE COSMIC ECHOES-ASTRAL TRAVELLING.
dereksmusicblog ♦ February 18, 2014 ♦ Leave a comment
LONNIE LISTON SMITH AND THE COSMIC ECHOES-ASTRAL TRAVELLING. Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman was the perfect label for Lonnie Liston Smith and The Echoes’ unique brand of cosmic jazz. Through working with some of the most innovative and creative musicians in the history of jazz, Bob must have realised that often, large record companies aren’t the …
GATO BARBIERI-THE THIRD WORLD.
dereksmusicblog ♦ February 13, 2014 ♦ Leave a comment
GATO BARBIERI-THE THIRD WORLD. It was through working with Charlie Haden’s on his album Liberation Music Orchestra that Gato Barbieri first met Bob Thiele. Gato played tenor saxophone and clarinet, while Bob produced Liberation Music Orchestra. This would be one of the final albums Bob Thiele produced for Impulse. He was about to leave Impulse, …
CESAR 830-CESAR.
dereksmusicblog ♦ January 31, 2014 ♦ Leave a comment
CESAR 830-CESAR. Originally, Cesar Ascarrunz came from Bolivia to California to study economics and psychology. Caesar wanted to continue his education and the University of California, in Berkeley seemed the perfect place. When he arrive in California in 1960, he was twenty-five. Although interested in music, he couldn’t play an instrument. This changed in 1961, …
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