Seeking: Free Jazz Trumpet Albums

I'm mostly looking for stuff from the 60s and 70s.

My favorite Leo Smith record (not that I've heard that many) is the Golden Quartet one on Tzadik, fantastic band.

'Flare Up' - Harry Beckett - a fiery 1970 leaders alb by Beckett, a Carribean trumpet/flugelhorn player who played some great free (but non-Euro improv-style free) stuff w/ such other Brits/exiles as Ray Russell, Mike Osborne, Chris Mcgregor, Keith Tippett etc. The alb features Osborne, John Surman, John Taylor (on electric keyboards) etc.

'Love's Dream' - Bobby Bradford - the man who replaced Don Cherry in Ornette Coleman's group visited London in '71, and toured w/ Trevor Watts and John Stevens in a straightahead/free combo that were recorded by Martin Davidson for his Emanem label. This disc expands on the original 74 vinyl issue. Bradford later collaborated a lot w/ the clarinet player John Carter, another under-recorded American semi-free-playing genius (best heard maybe on Horace Tapscott's 'The Dark Tree')

And some of Eddie Henderson's early 1970s solo albs are in exactly the same kind of electronic-milesean-semi-free-outness bag as 'Mwandishi', and you know how great that is

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On the earlier end, if you haven't checked out Booker Little, "Booker Little and Friend" is great, and "Booker Little in NY" is a nice date with Scott LaFaro. "Out Front" and the three live albums at the Five Spot are probably the best known albums (with Dolphy and Roach), but those other two are really strong.

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What is wrong with Euro improv anyway? Is there a blindfold test of some sort to weed it out?

My favorite Campbell disc is probably Ethnic Stew And Brew, because he reconciles the two sides of the Pyramid Trio (the post-bop and the ethnic/world-music stuff) better than on any other disc. Also, the rhythm section is William Parker and Hamid Drake, so the whole thing swings like a motherfucker. I also like New Kingdom a lot, and enjoy his work on Rob Brown's Jumping Off The Page. That one can be hard to find, though, because it's on No More Records, a label which no longer exists.

Phil - when will you learn about the scene?

I've been listening to Fast Last! everyday for a month and am a better person for it.

I would suggest the Mongezi Feza record that came out on Ayler. It's called Free Jam and it's from 1972. Really great.

There are some other trumpet players that ran in similar circles, mostly Brit guys who played with people like Mike Osborne and Mike Westbrook in the '70s in large ensemble settings (though Feza is South African, I think): Henry Lowther, Dave Holdsworth, Greg Bowen, Ronnie Hughes, Tony Fisher, Stafford Osborne, Sonny Corbett. I'm just getting into this stuff so don't even really know if they made any records as leader but I love most everything Mike Osborne has done FWIW.

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