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4 hours ago, Joe said:
Those many many Grant Green albums, I think I might listen again to one of them. I think the one I loved most was some that was titled after a Rollins composition. "Solid" maybe ?
But I was always astonished about those numerous albums that were under a certain motto, like one is with soul, one is with spirit, one with latin, one even with western and so on. "Music for all occasions", was that how Lion and Wolff wanted to sell his records ?Ah, there is another I love, quite untypical for me it has a Beatles Tune but I love it, or my wife likes it more than other "jazz". But I don´t remember if it was under Hank Mobley´s or Grant Green´s name.
Oh, and there was one with a no horn frontline, with Green, Hutch, and ah..... an organ player.....
The Philly J.J. I remember I saw the cover, it was Galaxy, right ? Somehow it was almost impossible to purchase them, if you didn´t purchase them when they came out. Same with the Red Garland albums for that label. It seems that many former Miles sidemen from the first quintet recorded for that 1970´s label, too bad they seem to be OOP.
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22 hours ago, EKE BBB said:
From what period is that ? Once, at a late friend´s place he spinned some Rollins playing standards like Afternoon in Paris, and some other standards and bop tunes, with a rhythm section that seemed to have been "borrowed" from Miles. Sounded very good. Is this from the same session.
I´m quite uninformed about many labels, but RCA always seemed a bit strange to me. It seems they never had something like their "house artists", like let´s say there were the BN artists, the Prestige artists, Impulse of course, Verve for more mainstream jazz et cetera .
But RCA always pop´s up here and there: Blakey, who was a BN artists, made "Plays Lerner and Lowe" for RCA, Bud, who was first a Verve and than BN artist, made two very very strange albums for RCA, and here Sonny Rollins.13 hours ago, mikeweil said:
I think I remember I must have this somewhere, but I doubt I spinned it more often than once. As much as I remember mine had or still has a little different cover and might have been titled "Byas and the Girls".
I think the only Byas I had and that was a gas and was spinned over and over again was that "Black Lion" album with Anthropology on it.The "Byas and the Girls" sounded outright tame to me in comparation to "Anthropology" or the "Savoy Sessions" (I think this is the other Byas I have ).
Maybe I should give it a try again. I´m not too familiar with them girls. Mary Lou Williams it seems I have read a lot about here, but more in the way that she was a maternal figure who tried to help many strung out guys, and that she was into some kind of religion.....
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19 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Jackie McLean “Demon’s Dance” Blue Note RVG Edition Japan
Woody Shaw! And LaMonte Johnson channeling McCoy Tyner.
It´s one of my favourite albums from that period. They are so great. I think, Woody Shaw´s composition "Sweet Love of Mine" is on that.
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Last week: "More than you know" as performed by Sonny Rollins on Roadtrips Vol. 1 . Amazing !
Yesterday night: " Round Midnight" as done by Joe Henderson on Freddie Hubbard´s "Keystone Bop": It´s a fierce version of the tune, solos in double time....
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17 hours ago, kh1958 said:
1994: Five Guitars Play Mingus at the Fez in the Time Cafe. This was a pleasure to hear.
How much would I have liked to hear this.
It´s interesting that Mingus until "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" was not really involved with guitar players, at least I don´t remember he used them in small bands or touring bands. There is a bit Spanish guitar on "Black Saint" but not really involved in the band playing, more as kind of an interlude here and there.....But Coryell really was involved with Mingus in his last two years of recording. He got much solo space, beside the "Three or Four..." I mostly think about his brilliant playing on "Three Worlds of Drums" and the "Farwell Farewell" with that wonderful solo on that great D flat tune......
So it would be interesting to know what stuff those five guitars played on that occasion you saw them.
One of the most disappointing things that happend with jazz concerts in my youth was when the already scheduled concert tour of late autumn 1977 (it would have been a tour with Larry Coryell and Phillip Caterine to promote his albums). I already had made my plans to travel from Austria to Germany to see the event, it was advertised and all, and then it was cancelled. But at the same time Mingus had made that strange album with Hampton.....
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8 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:
I have this one. What impressed me most was the live set from Boston, the rest is a bit uneven. If I remember right there is one private track where someone took the drum chair who is not a drummer and it sounds terrible.
But there is also a short broadcast where Buddy Rich (who is great but not necessarly my favourite) plays some superb brushes behind Eager..... -
14 hours ago, jazzcorner said:
Have that Amsterdam vinyl too. Excellent!
Featuring Billy Harper.
Yes, that´s it.
At Kongresshouse they performed those two tunes, a bit of drum solo feature (Mr. Hi Hat and The Drum also waltzes" plus a fierce version of Round Midnite.
Once thing I remember: The night before, Max Roach who already had arrived came down to Jazzland to hear and greet Art Farmer who performed. The next day, when it was Max Roach´s concert, Farmer was in the audience and greeted by Roach from the stage...... -
18 hours ago, felser said:
Great Concert of... is wonderful, the first full Mingus I ever heard (it was in my college's library browser rack). First Mingus cut I ever heard was "Hora Decubitas" from the wonderful 'Impulse Energy Essentials' sampler collection, which opened so many pathways for me when I picked it up as a brand new jazz convert.
Very similar to my entry in Mingus´ music. When I still was not a jazz fan, maybe 12 or 13, someone had a sampler with Jazz History and the only thing I dug was the last two tracks: "Milestones" from the Miles Davis sextet, and one of Mingus´ late fifties tracks from those albums "Dynasty" or "Ah Um" and that´s where I started to become a jazz fan with ambitions to play myself. So I bought first a Miles Davis album (Steamin´) and then somebody had "Great Concert" but stated that it´s too advanced for him, I gave it a try and that it was !! The best music I had heard in my live util then !
16 hours ago, kh1958 said:The Great Concert is great. At some point I realized that at the time of this concert, my family lived only about 80 miles from Paris--U.S. Army stationed in Orleans. Unfortunately, I was only 6 and not yet a Mingus fan.
Same here in other surroundings: In the summer of 1964 when I was 5 years old, we did our holiday in France, while Bud Powell was performing in a Beach Resort called "Edenville". To bad that I was only 5 and not yet a Powell fan !
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On 11/22/2023 at 12:02 PM, EKE BBB said:
I just started it a few days ago. Got it from my wife. Right now I´m at the point where Sonny first had heard Hawk´s "Body and Soul" and his idols where Louis Jordan and then Hawk.
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18 hours ago, felser said:
Neither is almost everything else everyone's ever recorded. 'The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady' is a desert island disc for me.
What I listen to is very dependent on the certain mood I´m in. Usually I spin "Black Saint" in a warm spring night, when you can open the windows.
But I have not cited it as my very favourite Mingus. If I might keep only one, it would be the 3 LP set "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus", you know Dolphy, Jordan, Byard, Richmond.....
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Just now, soulpope said:
On Baystate Records from 1979 .... outstanding music ....
Did you see Max Roach at Kongresshouse in 1978 ?
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I saw Larry Coryell live in 1979, it was a trio with Alphonse Mouzon on drums and Julius Farmer on electric bass (I think he was Art Farmer´s nephew). Maybe it was a pickup trio, since Alphonse Mouzon and his electric band were also billed at that festival.
It´s an interesting coincidence that also Sonny Rollins was one of the top acts of that festival and it was just a few weeks after Sonny had made that album which features Larry Coryell (Don´t Ask).
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18 hours ago, Pim said:
I have a similar Roach LP, also on Denon I think, they were very expensive. Mine is Live in Amsterdam and had the same personnel I saw live during that period: Cecil Bridgewater, Reggie Workman and Billy Harper.
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10 hours ago, BillF said:
Now playing:
Oh I love it ! Some of my very favourite tunes, like "In Walked Bud", "Evidence".....tunes that were always favourites of mine for set lists since some Monk tune usually is included in a gig.....
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Some great Steve Grossman is on Miles Davis´ last album, that kind of Reunion with old friends in Paris, where they even play some stuff like "Dig", "Out of Blue" and so on. There is an acoustic sextet of Miles, Jackie McLean, Steve Grossman, Chick Corea, Dave Holland and Al Foster.....
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Serena and me, at a fancy summer resort just before COVID started.
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11 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Grant Green “Am I Blue?” US RVG Blue Note cd
This one gets little love, but I really do like it myself.
I know, that it gets little love, but I can say there is certain occasions where I like to hear it, especially very very late at night. The title track is just fantastic and really has that after hour feeling.
Usually I listen to recorded music always after midnight, and sometimes, when I don´t want to hear more loud and rhythmic stuff , you know there is nights where you just are in that mood, you love it. -
9 minutes ago, sidewinder said:
A bit late but I've gone for a copy of the LP version of this set. Only have 'Moves' on LP and the Changes 1 and 2 on old CDs so it will be worth it. Have to say that I never originally bought 'Cumbia..' onwards due to the widespread negative reviews at the time. In hindsight, a mistake.
Should be very good Xmas listening along with the Don Byas set ! This era of Charles Mingus was long overdue a decent reissue.
It will be nice to read the booklet in comfortable size without a magnifying glass as well.
I was not aware of negative reviews and I even think, that I heard the long suite Cumbia live BEFORE it was in the record shops. Mingus himself announced it as a "Movie score we just had recorded".
Same with "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" . Well again, I have heard live the title tune, also a kind of suite, but there was no guitars and no two basses." Noddin´ Ya Head Blues" also was performed, but much faster than on the record.
Both albums reflected what Minguts actually performed in those days, but yeah, they are somehow overproduced.
I first was reluctant when I saw the cover of "Three or Four Shades", with all them little fotos of the musicians, and see´n a white young hippie (Corryell) and a white old man (Rowles) didn´t really encourage me. Not that I wouldn´t have dug young hippies (I also had even longer hair at that time) or old gentlemen, I was used to other images of Mingus-Musicians.But the review of "Three or Four Shades of the Blues" in the important magazine "JazzPodium" was positive, even if the only "negative" remark was that it is not as deep or good as "Black Saint and Sinner Lady".
Since sure I love "Black Saint and...." it wouldn´t be my first choice Mingus album anyway, so I was content to read a good review and bought the record.Too bad that the following tour, planned to promote that album, was chancelled because I was prepared to take the album to the concert to get it signed from the Master Himself.
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15 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Started the day off with the breezy sounds of trombonist Vittor Santos “Renewed Impressions/Renovando As Consideracoes” cd on Adventure Music. I love this cd!
Followed by the Verve Acoustic Sounds series Japanese SHM-SACD of “Duke Ellington & John Coltrane.” Sublime sounding disc, music that I have cherished a few decades.
Followed by
“Chico Buarque Songbook Vol. 6” Lumair cd
The Coltrane-Ellington thing I remember I got from Serena, she has that thing she just read the interpret and knew she somehow heard me mention him, and bought it. Funny she knew the name "Coltrane" better then "Elllingon".
The interesting thing is, Ellington is one of my favourite composers and he is compin so fine on the tunes, but other than Monk if he does his or elseone´s composition, I prefer to hear Ellingtons composition played by others. Same like a Dizzy with Basie LP I also got from her. She knew who´s Diz (or better: his cheeks) but had´n heard of Basie, and maybe the instrumentation quartet with Basie is quite thin.
But they are some of the most interesting albums, and the most beautiful of those star-combinations is another one I got from her "Coltrane-Hartman" with that fantastic bop era balladeer..... -
I think I heard him sing "Dinah" once, is that possible ? Liked it, quite of hi pitched voice.
I think he was not the only one with different birth dates.I never knew when Hawk was born: Once I read 1902, or 1904 or even 1906. Anyway .....for the modern bop stuff he played and rote (Dig "Bean ´n the Boys" which I love to play) it´s wonderful how much ahead of his time he was.
But all those senior players like Hawk, Rushing, Basie I see photos of them it seems they never was really young, they always looked a it like old men. Like on that film of Monk playin Blue Monk with Basie just sittin´ there, he really looks like an old man which sure he wasn´t when that old film was made...
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9 hours ago, Brad said:
Mark Styker mentioned this last week or the week before in one of his Twitter posts so I picked up a copy.
Yes you mention it and I remember I must have it somewhere. When I was a youngster, I bought a lot of those "Spotlite" LPs, I think there is also one of Bird in Paris, but they published anything that was recorded of Bird, may it be good, may it be sad, may it have a better ore a barely acceptable sound.....
I have a vague memory, that there is also tunes that Bird didn´t record much, some "Strike Up the Band" or "Fine and Dandy" or so.
There´s also a very long Body & Soul but somehow the local musicians never know if to play ballad time or double time, so I think I remember they not always really together....
The rest might be standard bop repertory like the "Bird in Paris"....
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4 hours ago, HutchFan said:
Coltrane's "Stardust" is on a different 1970s 2-fer titled (appropriately enough) The Stardust Sessions. I only know because I also have this album in my collection.
´cause you mention it and you must be right:
I think I even have the CD or LP of "Stardust".
It seems it was not only the tune, but the album´s title too.
But you know....I have certain tracks in my mind and hear `em in my head rite now while I write this, but I never know exactly to what album it belongs, even if I have the personnel in my head.
I hear something that might have been a milestone in my developement but that´s all.
The only thing I sure know is that I like his 50´s session more when Philly Joe Jones is on drums. Art Taylor was a wonderful guy and a very very fine drummer, but nevertheless the non plus ultra of his time, I mean pre-Tony Williams, pre Elvin Jones would be Philly J.J. for me.
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3 hours ago, HutchFan said:
CD compiles two of Coltrane's Prestige LPs: Traneing In and Soultrane, both tenor-plus-rhythm dates with Red Garland, Paul Chambers & Art Taylor
Looks fascinating. Both music & book.
I think this was a double LP from Prestige as there were many in the 70´s .
Trane´s version of "Stardust" is on of the greatest ballad performances I ever heard. Not only Trane who anyway is one of the greatest musicians of the 20´s century, but also Red Garland´s solo and that wonderful bowed solo by Paul Chambers. And if I remember right, there is that fine version of "Good Bait" on it, as well as "Don´t talk about me", right?
I don´t remember all the tracks, but I remember those three as some basic learning examples for my own musicial developement.
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Both records were in all the record shops when I started to become very interested in the music of O.C.
I still must have them somewhere. The "Theme from a Symphony" was played very very often by Ornette Coleman, I like that long track and Ornette´s outstanding solo.
The other track from Morocco, I think it´s with local traditional musicians didn´t really work for me. I heard folk music in Tunisia with fine rhythm and which also had inspired Charles Mingus when he played in Tunisia and it laid the roots for Mingus´ last recording session "Three Worlds of Drums". But the Morocco track on Dancing in Your Head just couldn´t be understood by me, it doesn´t have that drive I find in other North African stuff......
What Do You Look For In A Jazz Book
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Would be quite a challenge.
Until now the best jazz book with interviews , the one I really like is Art Taylor´s "Notes and Tones".