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  4. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    Summit Meeting (Vanguard). An all-star date featuring five artists signed to Vanguard at the time - Clark Terry, Bunky Green, James Moody, Roland Prince and Elvin Jones. Everyone plays well, but wow - Bunky Green!

    Kid Thomas Valentine - Thomas Valentine at Kohlman's Tavern (New Orleans). Sweet and hot New Orleans dance music. I doubt that Kid Thomas cared at all whether what he was playing was "jazz."

    Jerry McCain - Blues on the Move (Robox). Obscure Southern funk/blues from 1979.

  5. Miles Davis Bootleg Series Vol. 5

    in New Releases

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    1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

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    I’m just starting to listen to this set. This set poses a problem for Miles Davis fans. It’s unlike the other releases in the series. I find it fascinating. I can already say that one should follow one’s instincts about purchasing this set. If you think that it’s a collection of false starts, incomplete takes, and studio talk, and that you won’t listen to this often enough to justify the purchase, well, that is what this is. I will say that for me the studio chatter, the starts and stops, the incomplete takes all contribute to a bit of education about the Quintet, Miles and Teo, how recordings were made in that studio at that time, how Miles leads a band in the shaping of an arrangement. . . and more. I can see why many would not want to spin this too many times. But I think I’ll spin it often enough. Listening here by myself I can already think of five people I know that I would like to sit and listen to this with and exchange impressions and thoughts. And I will be happy to listen to this more times by myself (next run through I’ll probably do on headphones). 

    Sound is exceptionally good imo.

     

    Well said.

    I find it fascinating as well. The band starts and stops, trying different approaches to these tunes, and it seems as if nothing is working; they are not making any progress. Then - boom! When the feel is right, Miles lets them keep going, and that first complete take is usually the released master.

  6. What was the first Jazz Lp you bought?

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    I am one of those who explored jazz more or less chronologically. It's going to make me seem even  older than I am (57), but my first two jazz purchases were The Essential Charlie Parker on Verve and Bix Beiderbecke and the Chicago Cornets on Milestone - I think in that order, although I can't be sure now. Around the same time I was exploring more older jazz though a box of 78s my grandmother gave me and then-contemporary jazz through the public library.

  10. Your top five Jazz albums of all time.

    in Artists

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    Okay, I'll bite. I actually think the question of what constitutes an album is an interesting one. I'm assuming that each one of us can play his/her own way, and couldn't imagine a list of my favorites without some earlier jazz. So, in chronological order:

    Louis Armstrong - The Hot Fives and Sevens, Vol. III (JSP). This has all the Hot Fives with Earl Hines.
    Charlie Parker - The Complete Dial Sessions. If it's "cheating" to choose a four-disc set, there are several single-disc Bird on Dial collections that would suffice.
    Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners. This edged out Monk's Music because of the presence of Sonny Rollins in his first prime period.
    John Coltrane - Crescent
    Miles Davis - Miles Smiles.

    The limitation to five albums is pretty tough. In my case, I was surprised to notice that my top five choices have nothing more recent that 1966. If I had a few more choices, that would change, of course. But just five is hard - no King Oliver, Bix, Jelly Roll, Duke Ellington, Ornette, Cecil Taylor, Steve Lacy, Braxton, or Roscoe Mitchell, all of whom are among my favorites.
     

  14. What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

    in Classical Discussion

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    John-Edward Kelly (alto sax) and Bob Versteegh (piano) playing 20th-century music on a Col Legno CD:

    Maurice Karkoff - Sonatina (1985)
    Henk Badings - La Malinconia (1949)
    Miklos Maros - Undulations (1986)
    Werner Wolf Glaser - Allegro, Cadenza e Adagio (1950)
    Otmar Macha - Plac Saxofonu (1968)
    Ernst-Lothar von Knorr - Sonata (1932)

    I've been listening to a lot of classical saxophone lately, but haven't posted about most of it. This one deserves some attention, though. I hadn't spun it for awhile - I go through periods when Kelly's very dark sound annoys me. Not today - the quality of the playing is very high, and the compositions are excellent, even if the composers are not likely to be familiar to most listeners. Miklos Maros' "Undulations" is stunning; it uses polytonality, quarter tones, and the natural overtone series..

  18. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    Bunky Green - Places We've Never Been (Vanguard). I just found a sealed copy to replace my less-than-pristine copy of an album I really love.

    Charlie Christian / Wardell Gray - Tribute From Sweden (Fran Staterna). A Boris Rose production, purporting to be from Sweden. Some rare airchecks here, mostly by Benny Goodman small groups from different periods.

  20. BFT150 - The answers

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    9 hours ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

    20 Fatback Band – Give me one more chance – Perception PLP28 (Let’s do it again). NYC, 1972.

    George Williams (tp), George Adams (fl, ts), Earl Shelton (ts), Johnny King (g), Johnny Flippin’ (b), Bill Curtis (d, perc), Wayne Wilford (cga)

    Bill Curtis was the leader of this band which made lots more worse records than their first album. Aficionados of Mainstream’s soul jazz albums will know he was in a co-operative quartet with Charles Williams (as), Bubba Brooks (ts) and Don Pullen (org). I’ve often wondered whether Adams and Pullen knew each other from way back or if it was through Bill Curtis they got to know each other.

     

     

     

    George Adams and Don Pullen  reportedly met at the Royal Peacock on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta in the 1960s when Adams was playing with Sam Cooke and Pullen was with some R & B band.

  21. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    13 hours ago, corto maltese said:

    Funny thing about this record is that on most copies the labels are switched, so that many listeners who know AMM and MEV only from this LP, will have a complete wrong idea about the music of both groups.

    When I found the album 15 years or so ago, I figured it out pretty quickly from reading the liner notes. The random silences inserted into the AMM side (and mentioned in the notes) make it obvious.

  23. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    Bobby Hackett - Hello Louis! Bobby Hackett Plays the Music of Louis Armstrong (Epic). A pretty interesting album from 1964, featuring tunes written by Louis, well-known and obscure. Steve Lacy is on board; this was the last time he recorded anything resembling dixieland jazz. I've read an interview in which he says that it was pretty late in the day for him to be playing stuff like this, and that he didn't play well. He solos on half the tracks, and I still think he's the most interesting soloist here except for Hackett, who plays with his usual casual excellence.

    And I had never noticed until tonight that the second strain of "Gate Mouth Blues" is actually the off-color New Orleans Creole song "Kiss My F**cking Ass." It shows up a lot in New Orleans music - "Do What Ory Say," "Get It Right," "Up Jumped the Devil," etc.

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