Leon Thomas – Electric Dusk (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:44 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EZMNY Records – Motown Records
Electric Dusk is the Debut studio album by Leon Thomas III under the label Motown Records expected to be released later this year.
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Leon Thomas – Live In Berlin (1971/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:09 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ace Records
Leon Thomas is a strange and charismatic beast. Live he must have been captivating. On this album we start with a fair bit of epic avant waffling – although bits of Pharoah are stunning for me the true highlight is the idiosyncratic “The Creator Has a Master Plan” – how can you make jazz yodelling work?! Not sure, maybe no-one but him and no-when but then. The Hancock-esque Ooo-Wheeeee!! Hindewe is a hoot as well.
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Oliver Nelson, Johnny Hodges, Leon Thomas – Three Shades of Blue (1970/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:02 minutes | 838 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ace Records
They don’t make ’em like this anymore. Oliver Nelson, one of the great composer/arrangers of his generation, brings 20 or so guys with invincible swing in their DNA into a studio with some killer charts to play, and Johnny Hodges stands in front of them and does what Johnny Hodges does. The result was a classic album that’s given me great pleasure.
Recorded almost a year before his death this album would be Hodges last as a leader. It features an all star band that includes seven members from Ellington’s band plus Ron Carter, Randy Brecker and Hank Jones. This album both swings and has some blues. It’s an excellent recording and if you’re a Hodges fan it’s for you.
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