John Abercrombie

Wow.

I think, um, the 19 or late, there's like this John Abercrombie record that's Richard Byrick on ECM that I was really into.

for a long long long long time and i don't really listen to it much anymore but i probably listened to it for 20 years but um it was like one of his quartet records it was the blue one the like light blue one yeah look that one um and then uh the west the incredible guitar of west montgomery Um, I just transcribed his court solo on gone with the wind last month.

I'm like, let me see if I can play a court solo the way he plays a court solo.

He was, uh, in the collective trio Farmers by Nature with William Parker and Craig Taborn.

And his 2014 albums included James Brandon Lewis' Divine Travels, John Abercrombie's Flood Stage, Joe Morris' Balance, and a ton other that I didn't feel like listing here.

Yeah.

I've never heard that Farmers band.

Thank you. . . John Schofield gave us a tune, Nine Radio, off that album.

We'll stay with that idea with John Abercrombie and the tune Jazz Spoke off the Angle Below.

It's a 2013 release.

It's a duo album with Pete Brenler.

And now that we have unleashed this high level of sonic poetry, let's keep it going with two more sonic poets, Charles Lloyd and Kenny Wheeler.

Let's start with Charles Lloyd and his 1998 ECM album Voice in the Night, which brought Dave Holland into the studio with two old friends, John Abercrombie and Billy Higgins.

From that album we will hear a medley entitled Pocket Full of Blues.

That will be followed by Untie.

Bye.

Four tunes in this set and three remarkable collaborations featuring Dave Holland, three legendary guitarists, three legendary drummers and two equally legendary horn players.

We started with Pocketful of Blues by Charles Lloyd, with John Abercrombie and Billy Higgins, followed by Kenny Wheeler with Auntie, featuring Bill Frizzell and Lee Konitz, After that we heard Bill Frizzell playing one of the most compelling versions of Strange Meeting with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones and at the end Pat Metheny, Dave Holland and Roy Haynes on Three Flights Up.

This Dave Holland-orama is not over yet.

[on-hold jazz music]Welcome to the second part of today's edition of Mondo Jazz here on Radio Free Brooklyn.

As we celebrate six decades of Dave Holland's creative music, we started this segment with another of the countless classics that he has been involved with, Backwoods Song and its memorable Dave Holland bass work recorded with a supergroup featuring John Abercrombie and Jack DeJohnette, Gateway.

That tune is included on their self-titled debut album on ECM, Gateway.

And by the way, Gateway was a perfect name for a band that was a gateway into jazz for a generation of music fans and a gateway into guitar-centric electric jazz for a generation of musicians.