fucking, amazing.
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
Arrgghh, you kids and your bebop, boobop---check this (if it don't show, a page of stuff by Mezzrow & Sidney Bechet & Friends: "Sendin The Viper" and whatnot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_CEzmqAWWc&list=PLIzQd_Wf46Y100OOMNJ-bxZ5a_RjN_YC8
very much to the point!
― dow, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:36 (seven years ago) link
Not sure if this is the proper place to share this; was looking for a "random old _____ you are loving" jazz equivalent. But anyway, here's an album by the band Ululation from 1987:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPKG0wVPYWA
It's kind of in a larger ensemble sort of style. Maybe a bit reminiscent of Sun Ra's swing revival period. Discogs info.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
any love for the philly quartet CATALYST?
"ain't it the truth" (1972)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9i7rO1WYaA
that was their "hit"; a kind of ramsey lewis-esque soul jazz instrumental. funky as they come and always a mixtape favorite for me. the rest of their stuff was a lot more wild, but always retaining some semblance of a groove. kind of reminiscent of mwandishi/crossings era herbie hancock. all four of their albums are really good and recommended if you've never heard them.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 15 January 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
in a similar vein, i've always really dug the two sessions buster williams led on muse in the mid 70s (pinnacle + crystal reflections) for many of the same reasons as catalyst. it's kind of weird and skronky in spots, but never full on insanity. and always funky enough to remain fairly accessible. they'd be right at home on strata east or black jazz.
here's "the hump" (1975):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR0KRb8IC9k
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 15 January 2022 02:28 (two years ago) link
Prompted by ilxor Dan Peterson, I revisited Ike Quebec's classic early 60s Blue Note run and have discovered organist Freddie Roach. I always knew him from the Quebec albums, but never knew about any of his albums as a leader. Have only gotten through the Blue Note ones so far, but this is some seriously strong stuff. He preferred to work with guitarists it seems and Mo' Greens Please (1963) features Eddie Wright and Kenny Burrell in peak soul jazz mode (though they never duet on the same track; album probably sourced from multiple sessions). Even better, Brown Sugar (1965) finds Joe Henderson sitting in and proving once again that he really could play anything and he could play it all pretty damn well. More soul jazz than all out funky, it definitely feels like one of those standard classic Blue Notes that just transcends time. Crazy that the Blue Note catalogue still has "new to me" stuff of this calibre.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 19 February 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
Here's them riffing on Lloyd Price's "Have You Ever Had the Blues?" from Brown Sugar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgUuTmDRoU
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 19 February 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
Freddie Roach — "Lion Down" (1962)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLpfmg-qX_w
Kenny Burrell kind of vamps for most of his solo, then right around the two minute mark just fucking blacks out. Does Freddie cut him off???!!?! The amount of mutual disrespect captured on tape lol.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Monday, 21 February 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
I know the title track from Brown Sugar from a Blue Note organ jazz comp but had never heard the whole thing.
Thanks for keeping this vintage Scott thread alive. This is where I will put jazz things that interest me, currently the intersection of Latin and bossa nova, where it verges on easy listening. Most folks around here want to talk about Sonny Sharrock or whatever, but sometimes I just want to relax and pat my foot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcPWqO9-juU
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
Heh to me it sounds like Freddie Roach was coming in with backgrounds behind the guitar and meant for him to keep soloing, but instead they ended up with that little co-comping chorus.
Reminds me of a jam session I was at over the summer led by Victor Goines, where he kept coming in with backgrounds behind other soloists and they would always stop playing, because no one uses backgrounds anymore and is shocked when they hear another horn player during their solo.
(whereas in New Orleans music, it's standard practice and that's how you know you hit your last chorus)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
i agree w jordan, it sounds like roach just starts comping behind him but instead of propelling burrell forward he backs off and settles into a little groove
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:47 (two years ago) link
i got the reissues of Thelonious Monk's 10-inch Prestige 'albums' btw and they are fucking glorious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7y1nMkYeRE
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
Somehow only just learned about Hazel Scott (via Arthur Taylor’s Notes and Tones book of interviews. Relaxed Piano Moods with Mingus and Roach is extremely nice.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 23:58 (two years ago) link
Dan, "Flame and Frost" is excellent! Very haunting theme. I really liked the guitar playing on that tune, so I looked it up and the guitarist was Joe Diorio, who just passed away a few weeks ago. Time flies. There's so much of that Argo/Cadet/Chess stuff that I've never heard so I definitely appreciate hearing it. This one's even on Spotify, so it's in the queue.
brimstead, checking out that album right now and my initial impression is that you are 100% accurate in your assessment. kind of awesome to hear mingus in such a sustained mellow mode.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Monday, 28 February 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
Thank you again, brimstead! Have had that Hazel Scott in steady rotation ever since you posted. It really is a remarkable album. It has a very classicist kind of sound on the surface, but every so often she hits these beautiful minor phrases (minor seventh variants? Not sure about the theory aspects) that are so gorgeous. What a wonderful find.
Revisiting an old favorite today: Sahib Shihab's Jazz Sahib from 1957. The first tune is "S.M.T.W.T.F.S.S. Blues" and it's just infectious:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPYex25G7k
So funky in that bluesy, early James Brown, chillin` in your car at a red light noddin` at your folks sort of way — just straight to the heart of cool with no effort.
It's one of those albums drawn from multiple sessions with different band members, so Bill Evans is on piano for side two. It opens with "Blu-A-Round":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxKn0mv8mJM
Can't help but be reminded of Kind of Blue by that one, especially on Bill's solo. Pretty hypnotizing stuff.
Both of the tunes are originals by Sahib. I've found that he is highly spoken of by those who know of him, but that he isn't overall that well-known. Oh well. For years, I've used his name in the credits as a guide for finding great music, regardless of which continent he was on. Love him so much.
― Rest assured: the author of this post was smiling whilst writing it. (Austin), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:37 (two years ago) link
Postscript—
Jazz Sahib is not on Spotify that I can find. It was originally a Savoy session, so it could be located under another artist.
― Rest assured: the author of this post was smiling whilst writing it. (Austin), Wednesday, 2 March 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
Discogs has it for just a hair under 900 euros.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
Or $10 on CD.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 March 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link
Also on these compilations:
https://www.discogs.com/release/1760012-Sahib-Shihab-Jazz-Sahib-Complete-Sextets-Sessions-1956-1957
https://www.discogs.com/release/8745667-Sahib-Shihab-Five-Classic-Albums-Plus-Bonus-Tracks
― Rest assured: the author of this post was smiling whilst writing it. (Austin), Thursday, 3 March 2022 01:20 (two years ago) link
Checking out this Randy Weston album because of the Sahib Shihab connection and it's pretty great. Definitely inspired by Duke Ellington's long form works of the period, but kind of filtered through Dizzy's percussion-heavy "big ensemble" sound. Hall of fame cast of characters. Last track is a killer. I can't seem to find it on Spotify or YouTube, unfortunately.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 05:23 (two years ago) link
Did a bit more digging. The album is listed on Spotify as part of a two-fer CD.
Of course half of the tracks are unplayable and those are the tracks from Uhuru Afrika.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 05:33 (two years ago) link
Fell down a Japanese smooth funk rabbit hole and ended up with this and kind of holy shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc-pIH0CBxM
Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media - "Breeze" (1975)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Friday, 18 March 2022 05:47 (two years ago) link
Because it's Sunday, why not some 80s private press spiritual goodness?
(It's on the internet jukebox, if you're so inclined.)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
This is very niiice. I see the OG is currently on sale for $1000 <scream face>.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
Thank the streaming gods on this one, I suppose.
(I enjoyed it, as well. Very pleasant vibe. The spirituality of later Coltrane with none of the skronk.)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
Yeah, so Randy Weston was an internationalist way back there--back when some artists were sometimes promoted as "jazz ambassadors," prob with some CIA bucks in there somewhere, as tended to happen w hands-across-the-water arts projects, but wth; anyway, he followed the African diaspora back to the Motherland and forward, what with elements of highlife and Caribbean and blues and weirdo Monk as given prob more than some Gov officials liked---live LP Carnival was the only one I ever owned, and some friends said title opener sounded like naval recruitment commercial, but 7:28 or thereabouts "Tribute To Duke Ellington" was an amazing microcosm, deep into and all around solo piano---Side B is "Mystery of Love," piano, bass, drums, flute, and the moon, also all around.Also try Blue Moses, where Creed Taylor made him play electric piano (he didn't like it, but lots of people loved it). And his albums feat. trombonist-arranger Melba Liston.
― dow, Sunday, 10 April 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
Man I miss Randy Weston, along with some people and venues associated with him.
― Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I wanna go to this joint!
In 1967 Weston traveled throughout Africa with a U.S. cultural delegation. The last stop of the tour was Morocco, where he decided to settle, running his African Rhythms Club in Tangier[25] for five years, from 1967 to 1972. He said in a 2015 interview: "We had everything in there from Chicago blues singers to singers from the Congo.... The whole idea was to trace African people wherever we are and what we do with music."[26]
― dow, Sunday, 10 April 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
Yes, he was such a great presence too.
― Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
Thanks for the word, dow! I checked out some other Randy Weston stuff after I liked Uhuru Afrika so much and found that it was all pretty good. Special shout for African Cookbook. Admittedly didn't get to Blue Moses, but curious to give it a listen now!
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Sunday, 10 April 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
Also, here's the live one referenced.
(This post is mostly for my own reference.)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Sunday, 10 April 2022 22:34 (one year ago) link
I love unique lineups, so I've always been a huge fan of the Gary Burton collaboration with Stephane Grappelli from 1972. Vibes and violin right up front on some really excellent tunes — most notable for me is the rendition of "Blue in Green":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puqp5Z-dQpI
Just dreamy. Album as a whole is a bit more swingin`, but the other ballads do not disappoint. One of the first jazz albums I heard past the introductory Blue Train - Kind of Blue - Somethin` Else starter pack, so I have very fond memories of it. Highly recommend checking out the back cover of the LP in that link above. xpost to photos where one band member refuses to play along.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
I'm extending the timeline from 1980 to 1986 for this one. Later 80s was when I started listening to less alternative rock and more bluesy jazz from guys (and gals) who had been playing for decades previous, falling out of fashion, sometimes struggling with 70s smooth/fusion/disco crossover attempts, and then sticking around as elder statesmen of their craft. They literally were soul survivors.
I spin a lot of this stuff, a soulful, supremely comfortable mix of classic ballads ("The Second Time Around") and swinging R&B inflected jams ("One Mint Julep.") You can't possibly go wrong with a band including George Benson or Jimmy Ponder on guitar and Bernard Purdie on drums.
I wish there was a supper club or lounge where I could still hear organ jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hUux41Fe1g
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 13 May 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
often think about the Purdie anecdote (as retold by Donald Fagen in the Aja doc) that when Bernard was hired for a session he would put up a sign on each side of his drum set, one reading “You done it" and the other reading: “You done hired the hit-maker, Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie”
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 16 May 2022 08:10 (one year ago) link
I love those early 60s organ-drums-guitar records. This Jack McDuff set is about as classic as it gets for that sort of thing. Wasn't Purdie the one who claimed to have played (uncredited) on some early Beatles stuff?
Do you guys like Ahmed Abdul-Malik? He was Monk's bassist for a bit, but on his sessions as a leader, he played oud and went off into some really unique eastern textures. Still retains a strong jazz foundation, but check his rendition of "Summertime" from 1963 for a good example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebru71tMvzw
The earlier ones almost recall similar vibes to some of the Ethiopiques stuff. Very highly recommended.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
"Captain" Jack spent his final years in my city, Minneapolis, and used to play clubs here regularly. I saw him a number of times, but wish I would have gone to many more.
Yes it was Purdie who made those (afaik unsubstantiated) claims.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
I recently bought a cheapo set of (all?) four of Ahmed Abdul-Malik's albums. Good stuff.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
I remember seeing Jack McDuff at a Milwaukee jazz festival many years ago, it was great. I think it was on the same bill as Kevin Eubanks, where he freaked out all the Tonight Show fans by only playing crazy M-base fusion?
I totally believe that Purdie played on Beatles sessions btw, but who's to say if they ended up using those tracks on the final records or not.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
Purdie’s drums were overdubbed onto some pre-Ringo Hamburg-era Beatles recordings that Atco pushed out as a cash-in in 1964:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_She_Sweet_(album)#/media/File%3ABeatlesatco.jpg
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
That’s not remotely close to Purdie’s claims though.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 19 May 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
absolutely cannot believe i'm linking this place BUT, here's an okay and very vintage pedantic steve hoff thread about it. they've got the most details over there, i'm told.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 19 May 2022 04:13 (one year ago) link
This is a pretty good dissection: http://www.jimvallance.com/03-projects-folder/purdie-project-folder/pg-purdie.html
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 19 May 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
Weinberg: Everyone knows the Monkees were a fabricated band, but The Beatles?Purdie: Ringo never played on anything.Weinberg: Ringo never played on anything?Purdie: Not the early Beatles stuff.
Purdie: Ringo never played on anything.
Weinberg: Ringo never played on anything?
Purdie: Not the early Beatles stuff.
lol
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 19 May 2022 05:02 (one year ago) link
but anyway, ahmed abdul-malik is rad. here's one of his oud jams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IluGjySRBs0
"farah' alaiyna" (1958)
the rest of the album has johnny griffin on tenor.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 19 May 2022 05:10 (one year ago) link
or if that's not your flavor, you can get down with some slick 70s yusef lateef.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmRKJo4XLaU
"mystique" (1976)
the band holy smokes. whole album is excellent. unexpected turn into straight up phasered out synth funk. very solid.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 19 May 2022 05:41 (one year ago) link
I've been liking this one a lot lately, a compilation of Willis Jackson cuts from his early 60s albums Bossa Nova Plus, Neapolitan Nights, and a few other stray tracks. Stellar backing cast, as you can see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSeKMwdQ_bc
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 May 2022 17:19 (one year ago) link
Excellent, Dan! He's a player whose records I've seen around a lot but have never checked out — that one's piqued me! Also I'm convinced that Roy Haynes played on every non-Blue Note session from about 1958 until 64 or 65. Geez, that guy was everywhere!
I'm jamming a soul jazz classic this Sunday morning. This cover photo has got to be one of my alltime favs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUIIzQ4P9Yk
Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones — "Right On!" (1970)
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Sunday, 10 July 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Here's one I heard for the first time a few Saturday nights ago, after American Routes' replay of their excellent Freddie Hubbard interview x music: Lou Donaldson, "Blues Walk"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Liy9tw03p1I
― dow, Sunday, 10 July 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
Which reminded me of the Night Lights interview x music with Bob Porter, re his book Soul Jazz, which unperson says is not all it could be, but still a valuable resource for learning more about music that hasn't gotten much fair (if any) comment from critics. They play a lot of good selections that he talks about here and in the book: https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/bob-porters-portraits-soul-jazz.php (Night Lights could be catnip for you, Austin! I've learned sooo much from their fun music docs, which are mostly music.)
And here's the American Routes Freddie Hubbard segment, at the beginning of Hour 2---whole show is well worth hearing: American Routes indeed!http://americanroutes.wwno.org/archives/show/1278/Sounds-of-Freedom-Fontella-Bass-and-Freddie-Hubbard
― dow, Sunday, 10 July 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones — "Right On!"
This is very nice. The great Bernard Purdie (well known to Steely Dan fans) on drums!
― o. nate, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
Misspelled her name AND messed up the link. More coffee needed...
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 February 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
Really nice overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC2cAIUhbE8
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 February 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
I wasn't familiar with Gene Shaw (only three records as leader and three with Charles Mingus) but this pseudo Sketches of Spain meets bossa/exotica record is exactly what I'm into right now.
Arranger Richard Evans went on to helm The Soulful Strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7zYpLkXJzk
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 14 April 2023 14:02 (eleven months ago) link
Beverly's new to me, thanks! You might dig another recent discovery:
Carol Sloane, whose voice immediately grabbed via in her early 60s tracks, then gradually changed a bit with age, while continuing the same stylistic flight path, fast and slow, into a live set rec. 2019---she died this January, in her mid-80s---as heard in this doc from the ever-handy, frequently revelatory Afterglow:https://indianapublicmedia.org/afterglow/the-song-styling-of-carol-sloane.php
― dow, Friday, 14 April 2023 18:41 (eleven months ago) link
These guys! Not big eyes over the mic, just for you---na, they may be watching the clock, between shifts, fairly plain voices in several cases, but they know every note and what it's made of---in most cases, although I'm still not that into Chet Baker, and maybe a couple others, but mostly, this is pretty refreshing:
On this episode of Afterglow, I'm highlighting some jazz musicians who made their living playing horn, piano, or drums, but who could also sing when the occasion called for it. It's a look at jazz's part-time, unlikely singers, including trumpeter Chet Baker, drummer Buddy Rich, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Oscar Peterson, clarinetist Benny Goodman, trumpeter Roy Eldridge, guitarist Kenny Burrell, saxophonist Tex Beneke, clarinetist Woody Herman, and trumpeter Clark Terry.
― dow, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 02:33 (eleven months ago) link
Been going through a bunch of Adderley records after someone (sorry can't remember who) posted 'Electric Eel' from "You, Baby" in a recent thread.
Nat Adderley - You, Baby (CTI '68) - such a cool record. Just texturally it sounds very intimate, and his electronic cornet setup almost sounds like a breathy flute at times. Grady Tate's feel on these tracks is incredible, so laid back.
Nat Adderley - Calling Out Loud (CTI '69) - more conventional than You, Baby but still super solid and enjoyable. Idris Muhammed on drums. Joe Zawinul on Rhodes is a huge part of the appeal of all these records, I love hearing him in the Adderley zone.
Cannonball Adderley - The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free ('70) - has a very distinct time & place vibe, like all of the Adderley live records. Lots of astrology and sex talk in the banter, lol, but you can tell it's a hot crowd. Lots of guest appearances by Nat Adderley's playing guitar and singing in this intimate & soulful folk style, but it all works somehow.
Cannonball Adderley - In Person - I just can't get enough of the quintet with the Adderley Bros, Zawinul, and Roy McCurdy on drums and this is a great dose. Good banter about Zawinul.
Cannonball Adderley - Country Preacher - the banter and crowd are really evocative on this one too, it's possible he made the best live albums of all time? This one is full soul jazz/funk mode, maybe the closest in vibe to the Mercy, Mercy, Mercy record. Great tambourine and crowd handclaps. Roy McCurdy is super underrated, he kills it on all these records, in every style.
Looking forward to going through the '70s records when George Duke replaces Zawinul.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Thursday, 1 June 2023 18:53 (nine months ago) link
that would've been me!
he's also on sam jones's "the soul society" (1960), which i was listening to earlier this morning. fast becoming one of my very favorite jazz records. it definitely scratches a kind of funk / hard bop itch, but it's much more than that. sam jones killing all over the record on double bass and cello.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 1 June 2023 19:42 (nine months ago) link
i love this so much. so funny. someone should teach a class on this paragraph.
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/355117444_10161289158532137_5911693065179377795_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=TV69rAQPU5cAX9wLLEZ&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfD5OJlKj7fwN2IFPpzqg6mdZ0XP9stS8SbDPN98ESVdCQ&oe=6496A376
― scott seward, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 22:21 (nine months ago) link
haha, that's a+ material
Our little Donald, he's part of the younger generation, you know.
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 07:23 (nine months ago) link
this might be interesting to someone other than me. i made a playlist of 200 interviews with jazz musicians.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFjNq4XVFWjPJiymJ7--IBJP
― scott seward, Friday, 23 June 2023 19:41 (nine months ago) link
Discovered this through one of the Richard Davis remembrances, apparently he said this David Young record was one of his favorite recordings that he had done (I wonder if it's because the bass is super present in the mix, lol). But it has Sonny Fortune, Harold Mabern, and Idris Muhammad on it. Sounds extremely '70s (recorded in '71).
https://david-young.bandcamp.com/album/david-young
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 18:34 (six months ago) link
Check out the sax solo on "Friday the Fourteenth" that keeps dipping back and forth between hard swinging and free moments, that's really something.
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 18:48 (six months ago) link
i see its on my discogs wantlist. probably for richard davis. though i like all those guys. my dad loves harold mabern. he used to take me to see harold and harold's boyhood pal george coleman a lot when i was a kid. my dad worships george coleman.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 20:52 (six months ago) link
George Coleman is still going strong! Amazing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClJmhumJPNB/
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 20:59 (six months ago) link
thanks for the DY link. love this line from the bandcamp copy:
Despite his talent, he had one album he recorded as a lead which was released on mainstream Records.
ouch!
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 September 2023 22:19 (six months ago) link
Obsessed with Jakob Bro's records with Lee Konitz...Balladeering (w/Bill Frisell and Paul Motian), Time (different bassist and no drums), and December Song (Craig Taborn on piano). Incredible autumn music.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 12 October 2023 16:00 (five months ago) link
Best jazz vocal I've heard in a while---lots of folks have the chops and spirit, but there's a world in here, for now:Kate Kortum - Dreamsville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQNuSQZxWM
― dow, Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:31 (five months ago) link
Jakob Bro is indeed fantastic, have had the pleasure of seeing him quite a few times, once with Lee Konitz!
his first three ECM albums also great
did you catch Music for Black Pigeons? wonderful footage
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 11:28 (five months ago) link
Pulling up Michael Brecker - Time Is Of the Essence this morning. I'm not a huge Brecker fan but this is sounding great...the drum chair is either Elvin (!), "Tain" Watts, or Bill Stewart and it's a good exercise in comparison (they all sound amazing). Larry Goldings on organ, no bass player.
And "good Metheny records" is a topic that's come up on a few threads recently, and this might be one of the best. His solo on "Half Past Late" is ridiculous.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 14:52 (five months ago) link
I never really think about The Brecker Brothers as music for me, lumping them in with stuff like The Yellowjackets, but I heard this cut on the radio the other night that was beefy enough and had enough twists for me to take notice. Guitarist is great, Barry Finnerty, who I don't know but research shows me has played on a ton of records.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcPJ8Wop5o
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 17:20 (five months ago) link
Is 'Work Song' on Live in Tokyo widely accepted as the definitive version? If not, it should be, killer band and much better than the studio version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q88M5gwgGPI
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 26 February 2024 19:40 (one month ago) link
can't listen now but will listen later. such a great lineup. i've been so high on nat adderley records for awhile now. he made so much good stuff and i kinda didn't pay attention to them. better late than never. cannonball rules so hard. what a mind.
― scott seward, Monday, 26 February 2024 20:08 (one month ago) link
That's a great album. I just got two live Cannonball albums that will be coming out on Record Store Day — one is from 1969, with almost that same lineup, and the other is from 1972, when George Duke was in the band.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 26 February 2024 20:18 (one month ago) link
Forgot to mention that I heard the Tokyo recording on some cd comp I had in high school (maybe a Rhino Records thing? I remember a yellow cover). I've never had the full set but it was a great cd-era discovery.
Would love to hear those RSD records.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 26 February 2024 21:14 (one month ago) link
you can read every issue of nat hentoff's jazz review here. i know i did. i like that he had artists write reviews. one of these days i will find a complete run in real life. i could buy them one at a time when they pop up on ebay but i always forget about ebay.
https://www.jazzstudiesonline.org/content/jazz-review
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:47 (one month ago) link
Wow, thank you, that's fascinating. The first one I clicked on (Feb '59) has a pre-Coltrane article about Elvin Jones, written by a European sax was playing with him in J.J. Johnson's group, that's comes very close to speculatively describing the invention of the Coltrane Quartet. Or rather, it correctly recognizes everything Elvin is already doing (the power, flowing across the bar lines without giving the soloist easy signposts) but that eventually he'll probably have to simplify his style.
"...I have often had the same trouble with Elvin...the tension would build to a point where I had trouble finishing my choruses, and I would begin trembling with internal excitement, but completely unable to tell where we were any longer...that is obviously a situation to be avoided."
...until you find a group other musicians who always know where 1 is and can maintain the tension indefinitely. Now I wanna listen to a bunch of early Elvin.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 17:36 (one month ago) link
oh wow the very first issue has the (in)famous Gunther Schuller article about Sonny Rollins.
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 17:46 (one month ago) link
The reviews are hilarious too:
Relaxin' (with the Miles Davis Quintet) and Musings neither disappoint nor do they set the world on fire. Both call for no excess wordage on the part of a reviewer; they should be enjoyed and not analytically picked apart. I enjoyed them. —Mimi Clar
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 17:47 (one month ago) link
His (Coltrane's) solo on Giant Steps particularly shows a rhythmic stiffness and melodic tameness. He does not construct any real line with the arpeggios.
--H.A. Woodfin
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 18:00 (one month ago) link