Native Lands

Disc: 1

1. Afro Blue

2. Pyramids

3. Naked

4. Nefertiti

5. Ancient One First Born

6. Tateich

7. Umoja

8. Emanation

9. She

10. Three Card Molly

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Bonus Material [DVD] [*]

Native Lands,Will Calhoun,Halfnote Records,Jazz,Pop,United States of America

Average customer rating: Native Lands wonderful offering Will Calhoun and Pharoah Sanders . . .

Native Lands Will Calhoun Manufacturer: Halfnote Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Live at the Blue Note Jungle Funk Channel Three Live at CBGB's Tuesday 12/19/89 Saudades ASIN: B0009Q0F0A Release Date: 2005-06-28

Tracks:

1. Afro Blue
2. Pyramids
3. Naked
4. Nefertiti
5. Ancient One First Born
6. Tateich
7. Umoja
8. Emanation
9. She
10. Three Card Molly
11. Push
12. Dorita
13. East
14. Native Lands
15. Echoes of Elvin

Tracks:

1. Bonus Material [DVD][*]

Customer Reviews:

Native Lands.......2006-11-03

This is a very ambitous recording. Wil Calhoun shows a lot of depth and range with a wide variety of musical venues. He goes from Coltrain/Elvin jazz to electronic programed new age. His playing is very impressive and the CD is well worth the money. It has some really beautiful moments and it is never dull. I look forward to see what he does next.

wonderful offering.......2005-08-21

I had the same reaction, wow Pharoah Sanders is sounding great. The deeper i get into this disc the more i like it. Right now it's Buster Williams' bass solo on Umoja. Sweet! And thank God for Wallace Roney. Everyone here is the cream of the crop. i really like the direction of Calhoun's fine acoustic drumming blended with electronic grooves. The accompanying dvd is a great trip into the world of will calhoun one of the most interesting and well rounded drummers out today. Exquisite. 10 thumbs up!

Will Calhoun and Pharoah Sanders . . ........2005-07-08

. . . a very potent brew. Calhoun, who hasn't always played in contexts that enable him to exhibit his jazz chops (e.g., his Living Colour gig)--despite the fact that he's a graduate of Boston's Berklee School of Music--here pairs with Pharoah Sanders for a pretty spectacular outing.

Sanders appears on five cuts for nearly forty minutes (more than half the disc's total time), and he's in fine voice. Anyone who's been following his late career developments will immediately recognize this world-jazzy context as one very familiar to Sanders. Not everyone agrees, but my own feeling is that this kind of session is ideal for him. Not only does he get to show off his considerable chops in a very congenial setting, his late-career sax moves seem entirely attuned to a jazz-beat vibe.

Over the years, through a combination of natural talent, countless hours of practice, and innumerable bandstand appearances, Sanders has perfected a tone and concept that are not only completely his own, but represent one of the more distinct approaches to the tenor sax in the history of jazz. He possesses a depth of tonal richness, a power and dynamism, few others have ever been able to approach, let alone achieve. Moreover, he has such complete command of his instrument that he's able to naturally incorporate into his playing all kinds of extended techniques, from circular breathing, to split tones, to smears, to intervallic leaps. There are many others who do such things, but none so naturally or with such ease of execution, or in such close organic relationship to the music being played. In addition, he has a very quirky yet amazingly congenial sense of time. His lines float, dance, and weave, always related to the beat, but most often in rhythmic counterpoint to it. Consequently, any late-Sanders session is at least worth hearing. This one just happens to be one of his very best. He seems completely locked into the jazz-inflected world music vibe laid down by Calhoun, and he nails the mood and feeling of each piece.

Calhoun, too, seems uncommonly energized. I'm not familiar with his Living Colour gig, but here he displays a huge variety of drum, percussive, and other moves, playing everything from traditional drum kit to pandiero to several varieties of udu drum to Indonesian flute to acoustic flange drum to loops to pianos to acoustic guitar to bells, harmonica, keyboards, shakers, hand drums, various indigenous percussions, and bass.

Things start out with a huge burst of energy in a highly charged rendition of the Mongo Santamaria classis, "Afro Blue." The rest of the first half of the record--the part that Sanders plays on--has a suitelike feel, the tunes seeming to explore variations on themes of the African Diaspora, with, specifically, a North African feel ("Afro Blue," "Pyramids," "Nefertiti," "Umoja"). These are what set this disc apart. The second half, which visits a wider variety of native lands, has a looser feel (partly because of the inclusion of several short fillers), and though it doesn't make quite as strong an impression, it is still very much worth hearing. Highlights include a very energized Stanley Jordan playing on "Push," "Three Card Molly," featuring Wallace Roney's younger brother, Antoine, on soprano sax (who, by the way, acquits himself quite nicely, thank you very much) and the killer bass of John Benitez, and the title cut, featuring a dizzying variety of percussion from guest Nana Vasconcelos and from the leader.

All in all, this represents some of the very finest world jazz, right up there with Omar Sosa, Egberto Gismonti, Safa, Dhafer Youssef, and Yusef Lateef. And that's about the highest praise I can give a disc.

Average customer rating: information

Native Lands - The National Park Series Manufacturer: Orange Tree Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000HDIZES

Customer Reviews:

information.......2007-02-09

I just thought I would give a heads up on this CD. It is still available elsewhere for $14.95. No need to spend $32-$50

Average customer rating:

Across Indian Lands Various Artists Manufacturer: Soar Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD India | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | India & Pakistan | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Native American | North America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music North America | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000K05D Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. Grandfather's Song
2. Lakota Dream Song
3. A Warrior's Song
4. Honor Song
5. Tribal Pow Wow
6. Alter Song
7. Ute Love Song
8. Song For Mother Earth
9. Hopi Ribbon Song
10. Gourd Song
11. Ute Honoring Song
12. Dakota Love Song
13. Morning Offering
14. Prayer Song

Album Description

A compilation of traditional and authentic music by Native America from various nations.

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Native Lands Manufacturer: Minds On Hold ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BGQTOO Release Date: 2003-08-06

Tracks:

1. Land of snow
2. Foreign origin?
3. Morning song
4. Rajasthan
5. Dorje
6. The sacred party
7. Triti puti
8. Drawing down the sun
9. Inseparability
10. Global village

Product Description

An imaginative interpretation of folk songs from Tibet, India, Bulgaria, China, Bali, and Western Africa, reminiscent of the early sonic experimentations of Codona, Oregon, Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders and Miles Davis.

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Native Lands Will Calhoun Manufacturer: Enja ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000B6OH6Q Release Date: 2005-10-17

Tracks:

1. Afro Blue
2. Pyramids
3. Naked
4. Nefertiti
5. Ancient One First Born
6. Tateich
7. Umoja
8. Emanation
9. She
10. Three Card Molly
11. Push
12. Dorita
13. East
14. Native Lands
15. Echoes of Elvin

Tracks:

1. Bonus Material [DVD][*]

Pop Music:

1. Natural Elements [Import]
2. Nefertiti [Original recording remastered]
3. Neighbourhood [Import]
4. New Vintage
5. Nice & Slow
6. Now Playing: Movie Themes - Solo Piano
7. Our Man in Paris [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]
8. Out of the Blue
9. Page One [Original recording remastered]
10. Paseo

Pop Music