1. A love supreme suite 
2. Acknowledgment
3. Resolution
4. Pursuance
5. Psalm – Song of praise
6. I want to talk about you
7. Mr. P.C.

Joe Lovano – saxophone
Chris Potter  – saxophone
Lawrence Fields – piano
Cecil McBee – bass
Jonathan Blake – drums

Jazz Middelheim Antwerpen 14 august 2015

A Love Supreme, generally considered one of John Coltrane‘s greatest albums, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The record stands at an intersection between the hard bop of early Coltrane and the free jazz styles he would later fully embrace. Coltrane presents an ode to a higher spiritual power, with which he aims to express his gratitude for his creative abilities.

Who better to pay tribute to A Love Supreme than Joe Lovano and Chris Potter? In the 1990s Lovano was conscripted to the Blue Note label, not long after the death of Dexter Gordon. Label president Bruce Lundvall, who with Gordon’s passing had lost a good friend, remarked: “There will never be another Dexter. But then God gave me Joe.” Chris Potter was named the best tenor saxophonist in the world in the annual Readers Digest Poll of Down Beat in 2014, being praised for both his technique and rhythm. Jonathan Blake is a contemporary drummer, who likes to name A Love Supreme as one of his greatest influences. He plays drums with, among others, trumpeter Avishai Cohen and bassist Omer Avital.

On Acknowledgment, the first track of the four-part suite of A Love Supreme, Coltrane’s Quartet was reinforced with two others musicians, including Archie Shepp, who also appears on the stage at Jazz Middelheim today. Together with bassist Cecil McBee, he can directly testify to the importance and influence of the album. ---jazzmiddelheim.be

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1 	Sound Prints	4:38
2 	Sprints	13:56
3 	Destination Unknown	8:30
4 	To Sail Beyond The Sunset	10:24
5 	Weatherman	1:33
6 	Power Ranger	12:45

Bass – Linda Oh
Drums – Joey Baron
Piano – Lawrence Fields
Tenor Saxophone – Joe Lovano
Trumpet – Dave Douglas

Named after Wayne Shorter's classic composition "Footprints," the Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas quintet Sound Prints is a collaborative ensemble born out of the duo's involvement in the 2008 SFJAZZ Collective's tribute concert to legendary jazz saxophonist Shorter. Inspired to continue the creative spark they ignited at that event, saxophonist Lovano and trumpeter Douglas conceived of a group that would play original compositions, as well as new material from Shorter. The group's 2015 concert album, Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival, showcases their debut appearance at the famed jazz event. Joining Lovano and Douglas here are pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Linda Oh, and drummer Joey Baron. That each of these musicians could easily lead their own band only adds to Sound Prints' depth as an ensemble. However, rather than coming off as a jazz supergroup, Sound Prints feel like an organic unit of like-minded individuals working toward creating something new. Along with the palpable Shorter influence, they also recall the ruminative experimentalism of the late trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and his 5tet from the early '90s. To these ends, cuts like the fractured title track and the rambunctious, stream of conscious "Weatherman," combine the free bop of Ornette Coleman's '60s quartet with the expressive earthiness of Douglas' own work with his Tiny Bell Trio. Similarly, the evocative, bluesy "Spirits" brings to mind late-'60s Miles Davis, while the Latin-esque "Power Ranger" recalls latter-day John Coltrane. Elsewhere, Douglas and Lovano deliver two previously unheard Shorter pieces with the sultry, introspective "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" and the languid "Destination Unknown." Ultimately, Sound Prints walk the line between muscular, tangible post-bop and free-flowing, avant-garde playing; a tantalizing dance that never fails to leave an impression. ---Matt Collar, AllMusic Review

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01 – Blessings In May
02 – Myths And Legends
03 – Cross Culture
04 – In A Spin
05 – Star Crossed Lovers
06 – Journey Within
07 – Drum Chant
08 – Golden Horn
09 – Royal Roost
10 – Modern Man
11 – PM

Personnel: 
Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone, shaker, gong); 
Lionel Loueke (electric guitar); 
Francisco Mela (whistle, balafon, drums);
James Weidman (piano); 
Otis Brown III (drums).

Joe Lovano's third album featuring his Us Five quintet, 2013's Cross Culture, furthers the adventurous collective aesthetic the saxophonist developed on 2009's Folk Art and 2011's Bird Songs. Once again working with drummers Francisco Mela and Otis Brown III, pianist James Weidman, and bassist Esperanza Spalding, Lovano also employs bassist Peter Slavov on a few tracks here, as well as West African guitarist Lionel Loueke. The result is an album of exploratory jazz that is often more about group interplay on various musical themes rather than straightforward improvisation on melodic compositions -- though there is that, too. Tracks like the frenetic "In a Spin" and the sinewy, rambling "Journey Within" sound like Lovano and Loueke might have written them on the spot together and, though thoughtfully composed, evince a conversational, stream-of-consciousness approach. Elsewhere, cuts like the ruminative and languid "Journey Within" and the atmospheric, dreamlike "Golden Horn" move back and forth from group interplay to extended solo sections. The musical boundary-crossing title of the album takes on more significance on "Drum Chant," in which Mela, playing the West African balafon (a kind of wooden xylophone), and Brown build an insistent rhythmic palette over which Lovano and Loueke add their knotty, free-leaning improvisational lines. Interestingly, Lovano switches to the double-soprano "autochrome" for his solo on "In a Spin," creating a bright, almost atonal sound that jumps out at you halfway through the track. The autochrome's sound also acts as a kind of response to Loueke's harplike, synthesizer-esque guitar style. In fact, both Loueke and Spalding utilize a percussive style here that complements the two-drummer approach and allows Lovano, who has always leaned more on the rhymically slippery, harmonically advanced end of the spectrum, a large musical bed to spring from. Ultimately, that's what Cross Culture is all about. --- Matt Collar, Rovi

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1. Fort Worth [Set 2] (Lovano)
2. Birds of Springtime Gone By [Set 1] (Lovano)
3. I Can’t Get Started [Set 1] (Duke/Gershwin)
4. Uprising [Set 3] (Lovano)
5. Sail Away [Set 2] (Harrell)
6. Blues Not to Lose [Set 3] (Boyd)
7. Song and Dance [Set 2] (Lovano)
8. Lonnie’s Lament [Set 2] (Coltrane)
9. Reflections [Set 2] (Monk)
10. Little Willie Leaps [Set 1] (Davis)
11. This Is All I Ask [Set 2] (Jenkins)
12. 26-2 [Set 2] (Coltrane)
13. Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love [Set 3] (Mingus)
14. Sounds of Joy [Set 1] (Lovano)

Musicians:
Joe Lovano - Tenor, Soprano and
C-Melody Saxophone
+
Set One
Tom Harrell – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Anthony Cox – Bass
Billy Hart – Drums

Set Two
Mulgrew Miller – Piano
Christian McBride – Bass
Lewis Nash – Drums

Recorded March 12, 1994
and January 22, 1995

His double CD features two distinct quartets recorded live at the Village Vanguard, ten months apart. The group with Tom was one of my most creative, and it exemplified the concistency and conception of improvisation that happens when a group is very free, but structured was well.

The Quartet with Mulgrew was more traditional, drawing on a repetoire of famous music, except for Sounds of Joy, which I wrote to play with Blackwell.

We played that tune with more traditional harmonies here. This quartet reaches some beautiful heights in the classic tradition of swing and modern jazz.

During this period, the early 90s, I had four working groups: The Trio, the Sounds of Joy Trio, the Quartet with Tom, with no piano, and the Quartet with Mulgrew. These were the sounds in my life, what I was playing, what was evolving from my life. It was the intimacy of the trio and all of these different elements that make it happen.

This was originally just supposed to be one CD. Thanks to Bruce Lundvall and Michael Cuscuna, who were instrumental in the idea and execution of this double CD. --- joelovano.com

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1. Radio announcement 0:23
2. Intro by Lovano 0:56
3. Suite(pt1) Streams 13:48
4. Suite(pt2) Cool 11:35
5. Suite(pt3) Street of Neaples 11:58
6. My Little Brown Book 15:22
7. Bass Space 8:42
8. Viva Caruso 14:50

Joe Lovano - saxophones
James Weidman - piano
Esperanza Spalding - bass
Fransisco Mela – drums

Recorded In Kristianstad Jazz Festival, 
Södra Kasern Kristianstad, Sweden
October 13, 2007

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