Most of that old WJZZ playlist, as I remember it anyway, is well-represented on the new box set CTI Records: The Cool Revolution, which I picked up yesterday.
Creed Taylor, Inc. was as well known for striking album covers as it was for producing commercially-successful music that pissed jazz purists off.
Check out the blogger at the link for more of the story; or, if you just want to feel as cool and adult as Stoner did for minutes at a time at age seventeen, pick up a copy of Kenny Burrell's "God Save The Child" and give it a listen after dark.
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1 comment:
Yeah, CTI was The jazz label of the 70s. It's too bad the collection doesn't include Hubbard's "Straight Life", one of the greatest jazz performances ever. My ears blister every time I hear it. I imagine as a jazz fan you already have the album.
I'm beginning to realize that disco wasn't a threat to rock music. Rock did just fine, but R&B (or what some people call soul) and jazz never recovered completely.
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