Listening to Leo Wright's 'Soul Talk' today and it's sick. I was looking for non-Monk records with Frankie Dunlop, and it's an organ quartet with sax, Gloria Coleman on organ, Dunlop, and Kenny Burrell.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
nice. frankie is so underrated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJvaGpU5gZY
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
forgot he played on mingus's "tijuana moods". also seeing he was on an early joe zawinul date from '61. plenty to look into! any other favs so far?
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 01:29 (one year ago) link
i don't know much of frankie dunlop outside of those higher profile sideman gigs - thanks for the word!
as for me, i'm on my friday night smooth bullschitt again and i have to send this one with a special dedication to the good people of ilx. ya'll may have saved my life this year with all of your healthy distractions, cleverness, and just plain old good vibes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lK6457F1iQ
ronnie laws - "friends + strangers" (1977)
bonus track for my acid jazzers-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R-LWEgv-0U
ronnie laws - "friends + strangers (the l.g. experience remix)" (1996)
if you've never heard the whole album that's from, i highly recommend it. lots of heavy hitters dipping into some blue note (+capitol) classics, including an early appearance from a "j. yancey" ummah production.
the happiest of new year's to all of you. let's do it again soon, yeah?
― "guys, remember andy?" remember him?! i am him!! (Austin), Saturday, 31 December 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
Happy New Year, moldy figs!
Patti Bown is a new name to me. I discovered her album Plays Big Piano when I took note of the keys on a Gene Ammons record and did some digging. I'm not normally a big fan of piano trio records, but this one is really swingin', kind of gospelly in places, and reminds me a bit of Bobby Timmons (another fave.) Nice production job too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSzqhXJb-dA
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
I stumbled upon Beverly Kinney, fell down a youtube rabbit hole, and fell in love. I saw her voice described as being between Blossom Dearie and Marilyn Monroe, and that's pretty accurate. She's quite young sounding (she was only 28 when she took her own life in 1960) and her approach is intimate and not at all showy. Her version of "A Lovely Day" was used in a car commercial a few years back, and although I didn't know who she was at the time it caught my attention. I'm currently three albums into her discography and they're all excellent, ranging from a guitar-led combo to more orchestrated 50s pop.
scott's occasional swinging old jazz thread (moldy figs to 1980)
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 February 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLzC6z5bL-g
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 February 2023 16:40 (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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (six 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months ago) link
I didn't know this album -- These Are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly. It's sick, Richard Davis is going hard (and really keeping tracks like Goodnight Irene from being too straight), the late Tootie Heath on drums & tambourine, Cedar Walton, and amazing vocals by Sandra Douglas on a couple tracks.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 8 April 2024 22:15 (two weeks ago) link
Damn, this version of Black Girl (aka Where Did You Sleep Last Night)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 8 April 2024 22:20 (two weeks ago) link
Way better than the title suggests, great album
― Brad C., Tuesday, 9 April 2024 23:30 (two weeks ago) link
the title makes it sound awesome in my opinion! lol. checking it out now
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 18:57 (two weeks ago) link
but then i have a lot of time for Clifford Jordan
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 19:00 (two weeks ago) link
I can't find anything about Sandra Douglas besides this album, which she steals.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 19:04 (two weeks ago) link
it seems like you're not the first one to wonder
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 23:36 (two weeks ago) link
i've pulled this album out more than once this year. pepper adams and curtis fuller together is such a beautiful pairing. i love them both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyQVtVH-dYQ
― scott seward, Thursday, 11 April 2024 01:30 (two weeks ago) link
Damn indeed so good
― that's not my post, Thursday, 11 April 2024 03:06 (two weeks ago) link
that Clifford Jordan record got me wondering what other jazz albums of the era had folk revival themes ... this one, "Jazz Impressions of Folk Music," is not terrible, but sounds more like "The Harold Land Quintet Plays The Kingston Trio":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvV73nA1-gg
both albums have versions of "Take This Hammer" and Land's really suffers by comparison ... "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" and lol "On Top of Old Smokey" sound better, but "Hava Nagila" sent me running to Dick Dale
fairly undistinguished and uninspired bop, but like every 1963 jazz album I've ever heard, beautifully played and recorded
― Brad C., Thursday, 11 April 2024 19:17 (two weeks ago) link