Kai Winding won’t you blow one time!

Listen/Download Kai Winding – Watermelon Man

Greetings all

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The name Kai Winding was a very familiar one in my house when I was a kid.

My father is a huge jazz fan and had several ‘Jay and Kai’ albums (the duo of trombonists JJ Johnson and Kai Winding) in his collection.

It was only when I started collecting 45s in earnest – especially Mod soul/jazz – that I discovered that Mr Winding had waxed some very groovy stuff during the 60s.

The Danish-born Winding, who passed away at the age of 61 in 1983, recorded in a wide variety of settings from the 1940s (he played on Miles Davis’ ‘Birth of the Cool’ sessions) on until his death.

He recorded for the Verve label in the 60s, which is when he laid down the very tasty version of Herbie Hancock’s ‘Watermelon Man’.

Like many of his contemporaries, Winding experimented with adding all kinds of pop/R&B flavor into his records, and this is one of his best.

You get lots of that sonorous trombone, mixed in with some grovy combo organ and percussion that makes for a fusion of soul jazz and au-go-go flavors.

It has a discotheque vibe that I dig very much, and I hope you do too.

Get your groove shoes on, and I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

 

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