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Deron Johnson, photographer unknown, best known for his work with Miles Davis on Doo Bop and the pianist on Lady Blackbird 2021 smash hit Black Acid Soul returns. Listen hard to the very stirring 'Call Me Back': not only but because it is the …

Published: 9 Jun 2024. Updated: 14 days.

  • Deron Johnson, photographer unknown, best known for his work with Miles Davis on Doo Bop and the pianist on Lady Blackbird 2021 smash hit Black Acid Soul returns. Listen hard to the very stirring 'Call Me Back': not only but because it is the speaking voice of Miles no less from a scratchy old answerphone message sent to Deron, the ''call me back'' message somehow but beautifully weaved into modal meditations from the American who was taught by the great US jazz icon Billy Childs back in the day and has absorbed so much of that remarkable lifeforce. The gloriously pristine trumpet part with Johnson and Mehliana drummer legend Mark Guiliana is Joey Curreri, a new generation US wiz whom we heard as an unknown when he was over in London playing at the Oxford in 2021

Deron Johnson was a poetic pianistic muse to Lady Blackbird on Black Acid Soul

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Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Hamilton de Holanda, Collab, Sony Music Brazil **** Recommended

One vision, two icons - endless love. Collab highlights include a so very tender version of the Charlie Haden classic 'Silence' that goes back to 1980 ECM album Mágico on which the great Ornettian Haden appeared on with Norwegian master Jan …

Published: 8 Jun 2024. Updated: 17 days.

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One vision, two icons - endless love.

Collab highlights include a so very tender version of the Charlie Haden classic 'Silence' that goes back to 1980 ECM album Mágico on which the great Ornettian Haden appeared on with Norwegian master Jan Garbarek and the Brazilian guitarist-pianist genius Egberto Gismonti, a piece that Gonzalo Rubalcaba also interpreted so luminously on 2015's Haden memorial album, Charlie.

Share this new experience deep down inside: Afro-Latin, jazz and Brazilian sounds from Cuba piano great Rubalcaba whose 1990s classic album The Blessing with Haden and Jack DeJohnette still stands the test of time is here on a Miami studio recording with Brazilian 10-string mandolin master Hamilton de Holanda.

But there's so much more. Rubalcaba tunes, De Holanda tunes, a lovely feature by harmonica ace Gabriel Grossi - de Holanda's bandmate on 2017's Casa de Bituca - on Stevie Wonder's 'Don’t You Worry 'Bout A Thing' and a very fine vocal turn led off by inspired vocalese from the great João Bosco on his own co-write 'Incompatibilidade de gênios' conversationally accompanied by de Holanda. Gonzalo Rubalcaba, top left, and Hamilton de Holanda, photo, Collab