mikeweil

R.I.P. Those first LPs on Riverside were really interesting. But his debut was a 10-inch LP on RCA Victor:

Same here in Wiesbaden, 300 km south. There was some snow in the Taunus mountains yesterday but this is the first time it snows at ground level. I can't find my box with Xmas CDs in the basement .....

Those live streams are great for people like me not living 'round the corner of Smalls!

Didn't have the time to post every day, so here's all I've been listening to during the last three days:

Classic Earl Hines Sessions, Disc V

Your favourite city? So you probably know the films Antonioni (who was from Ferrara) shot there?

It's never too late! Thanks!

Great! Thank you so much!

Biographical sketches of Andy Bey's career on allmusic and elsewhere mention a LP he cut at the age of twelve (!), "Mama's Little Boy Sings The Bues", without mentioning a label or other details. It is said to be a R & B album. I cannot find details about anywhere - has anybody here ever heard (of) that LP?

There is a new CD out on Fresh Sound with club and TV recordings: https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/lucky-thompson-albums/6642-in-paris-1960-modern-jazz-at-club-saint-germain-the-blue-note-.html

When we moved ten years ago, some dumbass broke the Bill Haley 78. I gave the Gershwin to a neighbour who has a working, great sounding grammophone - he was delighted. Since then I acquired three Nick Esposito 78's in the course of my Tjader discography researches. Would be nice to be able to play them back at home, and get some more ...

Why? It's two years since the last post, and jazz is still as dead or alive than it was before. I see it as a music of minorities, that's it. Minorities always stay alive, in some way.

CD version, that is.

Buy with confidence - good seller.

LEVERANO Riserva 2011

What a statement! A nice photo from this obituary:http://wbgo.org/post/jon-hendricks-genre-pushing-jazz-vocalist-dead-96#stream/0

The Jimmy Forrest is the one of his Prestige albums missing in my collection - I'm rempted.

At least it is a very important part of where Jarreau comes from. p.s. for an illustration, listen to Hendricks' Telarc CD Freddie Freeloader - with Al Jarreau, George Benson, and Bobby McFerrin joining him singing the solos on the title track. He was the king of vocalese, and everybody acknowledged that.

R.I.P., and many thanks for the great work!

Since most links in older posts are dead, here are new YouTube links to the videos showing Tjader's band live:

The "James Joyce of Jive" has left us ..... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/obituaries/jon-hendricks-96-who-brought-a-new-dimension-to-jazz-singing-dies.html He made me love vocalese and scat singing - R.I.P. There may have been better singers, technically, but ..... “I wrote the shortest jazz poem ever heard,” he once wrote by way of explaining his philosophy. “Nothin’ about huggin’ or kissin’. One word: ‘Listen.’ ”