Asante (Blue Note Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP testing SW Montara is a feel-good album

Montara is a feel-good album that found the vibraphonist conjuring up an intoxicating hybrid of Latin jazz and fusion grooves from the percolating rhythms of ‘La Malanga’

Grant Green’s Idle Moments

As the original sleeve notes stated

was recorded in 1958 and found Powell in particularly fine form on an ebullient set of his original tunes including “Buster Rides Again

and drummer Steve Jordan

Asante (Blue Note Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP testing SW Montara is a feel-good albumPianist McCoy Tyner had been increasingly looking to Mother Africa for inspiration on his Blue Note recordings of the late 1960s on pieces like African Village and Message from the Nile. With his 1970 album Asante, Tyner brought those influences to the fore with a powerful set rooted in the swirling percussive rhythmic bed laid by drummer Billy Hart and percussionist Mtume. Bassist Buster Williams, guitarist Ted Dunbar, and alto saxophonist Andrew