The art of sampling is still somewhat maligned and without doubt under appreciated. The detractors, still often musicians of a certain aged, decry the plundering and the fact that a producer hasn't spent 10,000 hours learning an instrument, whilst overlooking the fact that the deepest most dedicated producers have probably spent the same amount of hours trawling, and often buying, countless recordings to find those magic moments, and then repurposing them for a different generation, not to mention often generating revenue for those original artists.
There isn't a lot of information to go on with this new release from Oscar Willey and the Free Sound Coalition, just a somewhat dubious label press release passing the recording off as a long lost recording found whilst digging in the crates, and on a passive listen whilst you were cooking dinner, you might just go for that.
Listen a bit harder though and what you'll uncover is a startling cut and paste free jazz collage from rap79 , who I'm guessing hasn't seen the light of day for years, they've spent so much time digging for breaks and then studio tied stitching them together into this miraculous journey through deep jazz. Who knows if it's just all old recordings or there is some musicianship involved? All I know is that it flows like Yusef Lateef, swings like Elvin Jones, trips like Timothy Leary and searches like Albert Ayler. Start at the start and go for the ride.
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Find a cut from this deadly release in the Slow Jazz Playlist
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