Get Up With It is an album from the electric phase of American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, released on November 22, 1974, on Columbia Records. The album is a sprawling, retrospective collection of previously unreleased material recorded between 1970 and 1974. It spans the entire sonic palette of Davis’s electric period, from the hard funk […]
Al Foster (Jan. 18, 1943 — May 28, 2025) was an American jazz-funk drummer who first recorded in 1964 with Blue Mitchell and spent 1972–85 with Miles Davis, from the electric groups of the early Seventies through the Eighties comeback period. Foster also worked extensively with Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson, and Herbie Hancock […]
Kochi was a multinational jazz-rock super-group behind the 1976 East Wind album Wishes, led by Japanese keyboardist/composer Masabumi Kikuchi. Members: Al Foster, Anthony Jackson, David Liebman, James Mtume, Masabumi Kikuchi, Reggie Lucas, Steve Grossman, Terumasa Hino Background Kochi formed circa 1975 in New York when pianist Masabumi Kikuchi renewed his partnership with trumpeter Terumasa Hino, […]
