[John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy - Evenings at the Village Gate (July 14th release date)]

I recently read that this was recorded at the Gate with a single overhead mic. So, very often, the drums overpower all the other instruments. The flute sounds very far away in the opening Dolphy flute solo of Favorite Things. Boy, I would have loved to hear that mic'd well. But the sax, being louder, is picked up much better. But overall the set is just killer. So much better than the recent Love Supreme set that I really had a hard time listening to.

However, I feel they're hitting the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Coltrane discoveries. The last truly great one was with Thelonious Monk at Carnegie Hall in 1957. Released in 2005. That recording was perfect. Maybe something else of that quality will be unearthed one day. But don't hold your breath.

You'd think with the advent of AI they could balance and equalize these recordings better. I suspect they will be able to do it soon. Then we'll hear re-releases of all these masterful performances as they were meant to sound. Here's an example of how it was done with Nirvana and Beatles songs. 

[Playing Favorites: Reflections on Jazz in the 1970s]

My very first jazz album, at the tender age of 18 was released in 1970 - Bitches Brew. So my jazz collection started with fusion - more Miles, Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and Weather Report. Over the years I’ve filled out my collection of 70’s jazz. But Scott is unearthing some real gems I’ve never even heard of. Reading this blog has become a daily ritual. And it's really good, to boot, with some wonderful observations and insights about artists and the music of the time. Check it out, for sure. Cheers, R.

[The Bad Plus - Activate Infinity]

This is a very listenable album. I like it.

[Your Favorite Albums of the Decade]

57 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

URL: https://jazzinthe70s.blogspot.com

And here's a thread about the blog on this site: 

 

Hutch, this is fantastic. I know what it takes to write something regularly. I’ve written an ezine/blog for my business once a week for 22 years. But I can’t quite imagine writing something so comprehensive for a full year. And your writing is terrific. Full of color and love for you topic. I will be a dedicated reader!! And I expect to discover some real gems.

Cheers, R

[What Are Your Favorite Jazz Recordings of the 21st Century?]

On 10/23/2019 at 8:09 PM, HutchFan said:

Some more grist for the mill. . . 

At the end of his recent book Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century, author & critic Nate Chinen lists "The 131 Essential Albums of the Twenty-First Century (So Far)."  Even though the title of Chinen's list sorta violates the spirit of this thread ("the essential" compared to "some favorites"), I thought it might generate some more fruitful discussion if I shared it.  (Incidentally, does anyone think that this is objectionable from a copyright point of view?  If so, I'll be happy to delete it.)

Here are Chinen's picks:

2000
Jim Black's Alas No Axis - Alas No Axis (Winter & Winter)
Brian Blade Fellowship - Perceptual (Blue Note)
Kurt Elling - Live in Chicago (Blue Note)
Nils Petter Molaver - Solid Ether (ECM)
Danilo Perez - Motherland (Verve)
David Sanchez - Melaza (Columbia)
David S. Ware - Surrendered (Columbia)

2001
Chicago Underground Quartet - Chicago Underground Quartet (Thrill Jockey)
The Claudia Quintet - The Claudia Quintet (Blueshift/CRI)
Marilyn Crispell, Paul Motian, Gary Peacock - Amyrillis (ECM)
Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Next Step (Verve)
John Scofield - Works for Me (Verve)
Matthew Shipp - New Orbit (Thirsty Ear)

2002
Ben Allison - Peace Pipe (Palmetto)
Tim Berne - Science Friction (Screwgun)
Keith Jarrett Trio - Always Let Me Go (ECM)
Luciana Souza - Brazilian Duos (Sunnyside)
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - Soul of Things (ECM)
Cecil Taylor - Willisau Concert (Intakt)
Cassandra Wilson - Belly of the Sun (Blue Note)

2003
Bad Plus - These Are the Vistas (Columbia)
David Binney - South (ACT)
Terence Blanchard - Bounce (Blue Note)
Jane Ira Bloom - Chasing Paint (Arabesque)
Fred Hersch Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
Dave Holland Quintet - Extended Play: Live at the Village Vanguard (ECM)
Ahmad Jamal - In Search of Momentum (Dreyfus)

2004
Geri Allen - The Life of a Song (Telarc)
Don Byron - Ivey-Divey (Blue Note)
Frank Kimbrough - Lullabluebye (Palmetto)
Tony Malaby Trio - Adobe (Sunnyside)
Medeski, Martin & Wood - End of the World Party (Just in Case) (Blue Note)
Brad Mehldau Trio - Anything Goes (Warner Bros)
Mulgrew Miller Trio - Live at Yoshi's, Vol. 1 (MaxJazz)

2005
Amina Figarova - September Suite (Munich)
Guillermo Klein - Una Nave (Sunnyside)
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up (Nonesuch)
Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano - I Have the Room Above Her (ECM)
Sonny Rollins - Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert (Milestone)
Jenny Scheinmann - 12 Songs (Cryptogramophone)
Cuong Vu - It's Mostly Residual (Intoxicate)
Miguel Zenon - Jibaro (Marsalis Music)

2006
Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar (Sound Grammar)
Dave Douglas Quintet - Meaning & Mystery (Greenleaf)
Andrew Hill - Timelines (Blue Note)
Christian McBride - Live at Tonic (Ropeadope)

2007
Michael Brecker - Pilgrimage (Heads Up)
The Nels Cline Singers - Draw Breath (Cryptogramophone)
Robert Glasper - In My Element (Blue Note)
Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters (Verve)
Lionel Loueke - Virgin Forest (ObliqSound)
Wynton Marsalis & the JALC Orchestra - Congo Square (JALC)
Bill McHenry - Roses (Sunnyside)
Joshua Redman - Back East (Nonesuch)

2008
JD Allen Trio - I Am, I Am (Sunnyside)
Anat Cohen - Notes from the Village (Anzic)
Fieldwork - Door (Pi)
Bill Frisell - History, Mystery (Nonesuch)
Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head (Firehouse 12)
Charles Lloyd - Rabo de Nube (ECM)
Rudresh Manhanthappa - Kinsmen (Pi)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Avatar (Blue Note)

2009
Five Peace Band - Five Peace Band Live (Concord)
Fly - Sky & Country (ECM)
Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity (ACT)
Darius Jones - Man'ish Boy (Aum Fidelity)
Steve Lehman Octet - Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
Joe Lovano's Us Five - Folk Art (Blue Note)
Myra Melford's Be Bread - The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
Trio 3 / Geri Allen - At This Time (Intakt)
Matt Wilson Quartet - That's Gonna Leave a Mark (Palmetto)

2010
Steve Coleman & Five Elements - Harvesting Semblances & Affinities (Pi)
The Cookers - Warriors (Jazz Legacy)
Kneebody - You Can Have Your Moment (Winter & Winter)
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth - Deluxe (Clean Feed)
Jason Moran - Ten (Blue Note)
Paradoxical Frog - Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)

2011
Chris Dingman - Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)
Gilad Hekelsman - Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant du Monde)
Arturo O'Farrill & the Latin Jazz Orchestra - 40 Acres & a Burro (Zoho)
Gretchen Parlato - The Lost & Found (ObliqSound)

2012
Ravi Coltrane - Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
Tom Harrell - Number Five (HighNote)
Masabumi Kikuchi Trio - Sunrise (ECM)
Donny McCaslin - Casting for Gravity (Greenleaf)
Linda Oh - Initial Here (Greenleaf)
Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
 

2013
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Brooklyn Babylon (New Amsterdam)
The New Gary Burton Quartet - Guided Tour (Mack Avenue)
Ben Monder - Hyrdra (Sunnyside)
Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirits (Blue Note)
Chris Potter - The Sirens (ECM)
Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (Constellation)
Craig Taborn Trio - Chants (ECM)

2014
Flying Lotus - You're Dead (Warp)
Billy Hart Quartet - One is the Other (ECM)
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Enfant Terrible (Rune Grammofon)
Mark Turner Quartet - Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
David Virelles - Mboko (ECM)

2015
Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers Ensemble - Crisis (Pi)
Mike Moreno - Lotus (World Culture)
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things - A New Kind of Dance (482)
Tomeka Reid Quartet - Tomeka Reid Quartet (Thirsty Ear)
Maria Schneider Orchestra - The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
Jen Shyu and Jade Tongue - Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi)
Henry Threadgill's Zooid - In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)

2016
Melissa Aldana & the Crash Trio - Back Home (Word of Mouth)
Kris Davis - Duopoly (Pyroclastic)
Jeff Parker - The New Breed (International Anthem)
Shabaka & the Ancestors - Wisdom of the Elders (Brownswood)
Tyshawn Sorey - The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution (Concord)

2017
Jaimie Branch - Fly or Die (International Anthem)
Nubya Garcia - Nubya's 5ive (Jazz Re:freshed)
Ron Miles - I am a Man (Yellowbird)
Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
Roscoe Mitchell - Bells for the South Side (ECM)
Cecile McLorin Salvant - Dreams and Daggers (Mack Ave)
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope)

2018
Ambrose Akinmusire - Origami Harvest (Blue Note)
Maria Grand - Magdalena (Biophilia)
Julian Lage - Modern Love (Mack Avenue)
Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings (International Anthem)
Aaron Parks - Little Big (Ropeadope)
Dafnis Prieto Big Band - Back to the Sunset (Dafnison)
Logan Richardson - Blues People (Ropeadope)
Wayne Shorter - Emanon (Blue Note)
Sons of Kemet - Your Queen is a Reptile (Impulse!)
Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth (Young Turks)
Dan Weiss - Starebaby (Pi)

 

Any thoughts?

My main thought about Nate’s list is that it’s simply another subjective list. There’s really no such thing as an ‘essential jazz album’ that all jazz fans should own. There is only what someone personally likes. That’s why I hate the title, ‘Best of Year List.’ Yet I’m more than happy to see what people like and check out stuff I haven’t heard. For me, I like about 20% of what’s on this list. Some highly touted artists I simply can’t stand. Some stuff that I think is the juiciest jazz ever recorded was missed by almost everyone. So I guess we shouldn’t get so worked up about this shit.

Cheers, Robert

[Your Favorite Albums of the Decade]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

So true.  De gustibus non est disputandum. 

 

I've been reading a bit about the UK jazz scene, but I haven't had much of a chance to dig into it yet.  For quite a while, I've been focused on my 70s blog project.  Looks like there's a lot to discover there though!  

 

What is your 70’s blog project? 70’s Jazz, the decade jazz changed dramatically? Do you have a link?

Cheers R.

[Your Favorite Albums of the Decade]

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Hey, Hutch,

I have about a dozen of yours in my collection, but none of them are my faves. :-)

Always interesting how an album that is thrilling to one person leaves another indifferent.

Right now I’m going a little nutso about the London jazz scene. Highly talented young players with music that really grooves. At the top of the list is Nubya Garcia whose first album, Nubya’s 5ive, (2017) became quite popular and she’s drawing large crowds everywhere she plays. Check her out on YouTube. I’m gobsmacked, but nobody is for everybody. There are a ton of articles on the London jazz scene online if you want to check it out.

Cheers, R
 

Robert, I love these list-type threads -- if only to see what others are grooving to.  

I started a similar thread on jazz favorites in the 21st century, so it's focused on the last twenty years instead of the last ten.  Click here if you'd like to take a look.

More grist for the mill of discussion.  

 

EDIT:
Here's my shortened list, modified for this thread:

JD Allen – Radio Flyer (Savant)
Kenny Barron – Concentric Circles (Blue Note)
Richie Beirach – Impressions of Tokyo: Ancient City of the Future (Out Note)
The Brazilian Trio – Constelação (Motéma)
Joey Calderrazo – Live (Sunnyside)
Bill Carrothers – Castaways (Pirouet)
Marc Cary Focus Trio – Four Directions (Motéma)
Ryan Cohan – The River (Motéma)
Adam Cruz – Milestone (Sunnyside)
Alexis Cuadrado – A Lorca Soundscape (Sunnyside)
Duduka Da Fonseca – New Samba Jazz Directions (Zoho)
Orrin Evans – Flip the Script (Posi-Tone)
Tom Harrell – Trip (HighNote)
Donald Harrison with Ron Carter & Billy Cobham – This Is Jazz (Half Note) 
Billy Hart Quartet – One is the Other (ECM)
Pablo Held – Elders (Pirouet)
Frank Kimbrough – Solstice (Pirouet)
Dave Liebman Group: Expansions – Live (Whaling City Sound)
Joe Lovano Us Five – Bird Songs (Blue Note)
Jason Moran – Ten (Blue Note)
Bill O'Connell + the Latin Jazz All Stars – Zócalo (Savant)
Chico O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra – 40 Acres and a Burro (Zoho)
Enrico Pieranunzi with Scott Colley & Antonio Sanchez – Permutation (CamJazz)
Martial Solal – My One and Only Love: Live at Theater Gütersloh (Intuition)
Wayne Shorter Quartet – Without a Net (Blue Note)
Steve Turre – Delicious and Delightful (HighNote)
Mads Vinding, Jean-Michel Pilc, Billy Hart – Open Minds (Storyville)
Kenny Werner – The Melody (Pirouet)
Larry Willis – This Time the Dream's On Me (HighNote)

 

8 hours ago, colinmce said:

Boy, not only do I not have any of these, I haven’t heard of most of the artists! The jazz world is vast.

Cheers, R

3 hours ago, Д.Д. said:

Some of the albums recorded 2010 - 2019 I liked:

https://darktree.bandcamp.com/album/pourtant-les-cimes-des-arbres 

https://www.nottwo.com/mw902

https://www.nottwo.com/mw925

 

http://www.ayler.com/daunik-lazro-some-other-zongs.html

https://f-a-t-a-k-a.bandcamp.com/album/prediction-and-warning

 

https://boris-hegenbart.bandcamp.com/releases

http://www.ftarri.com/meenna/980/index.html 

https://newatlantisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/burning-in-water-drowning-in-flame

https://pirecordings.com/albums/mise-en-abme/

https://www.nottwo.com/mw971

https://mikroton.bandcamp.com/album/fracture-mechanics

 

Plus Trio X live recordings on CIMPoL and Threadgill albums on Pi.

There's been a lot of good stuff recorded, I still have a lot of catching up to do.  

Ok, well, I do have the Steve Lehman! Pretty amazing album. His latest is great, too. I’ll check out the others.

Cheers, R

[Your Favorite Albums of the Decade]

Not everyone likes lists like this, but I do. I'm kinda obsessed with creating playlists of my favorite albums. This is not a "best of the decade list." Who knows what the best really is? But you do know what you liked the most, listened to the most and generally obsessed over. Here's my list of favorites from 2010 through 2019. What are yours? Current albums only, not reissues. 

Deluxe - Chris Lightcap

Dulces - Billy Fox

Pathways - Dave Holland

Beat Therapy - Dmitri Tymoczko

Hearts Wide Open - Gilad Hekselman

On the Go - Matthew Halsall

The Creep - Ted Nash

The Troubles - The Troubles

Quartette Humaine - Bob James, David Sanborn

Trios - Carla Bley

Harmonious Creatures - Sarah Manning

Instead - Collocutor

Live in Larissa - Nat Birchall

New Song - Omer Avital

Blue Blue - Bengt Berger

Madeleine - Ghost Rhythms

Silent Understanding - Double Pulse

The Time Inside a Year - Dave McDonnell

Beam Me Up - Shauli Einav

Early Americans - Jane Ira Bloom

Homage - Adam Niewood

I Long to See You - Charles Lloyd

Oceanic Suite - Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

What We Bring - Ben Wendell

Hudson - Hudson

La Saboteuse - Yass Ahmed

Layers of the City - Ben Allison

Translator's Note - Oded Tzur

Awase - Nik Barsch's Ronin

Nubaya's 5ive - Nubya Garcia

There is a Place - Maisha

Blume - Nerija

Fyah - Theon Cross

Glitter Wolf - Allison Miller

Good Hope - Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Zakir Hussain

My album of the decade: Nubaya's 5ive - Nubya Garcia

NOTE: I culled this list of 35 down from a list of 100. These really are my desert island disks of the decade. 

Cheers, Robert 

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

A playlist of the first 20 years of ECM. About 200 albums in all. I think these were the greatest ECM years with a lot of classic, beautiful albums. And, for the most part, a lot more distinctive than the last 30 years. Albums from these artists:

Arild Andersen, Bass Desires, Bennie Maupin, Bill Connors, Bill Frisell, Carla Bley, Chick Corea, Collin Walcott, Dave Holland, Dave Liebman, Eberhard Weber, Egberto Gismonti, Enrico Rava, Gary Burton, Jack DeJohnette, Jan Garbarek, John Abercrombie, John Surman, Keith Jarrett, Kenny Wheeler, Miroslav Vitous, Pat Metheny, Paul Bley, Ralph Towner, Steve Kuhn, Steve Tibbitts, and Terje Rypdal.

An amazing body of work. 

 

[My Favorite Jazz Albums of 2019 (so far)]

3 hours ago, Coda said:

My favorite this year:

Yeah, this looks like a good one! Garzone is great but only have a few of his albums. Plus Erskine and Pasquale. And three discs!

[My Favorite Jazz Albums of 2019 (so far)]

4 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Oh, I meant jazz in any format.  

Well, they're spitting 'em out as a prodigious rate.

Ninety-three for me so far this year.

Makin' 'em and bakin' 'em. 

And some are mighty delicious. 

[My Favorite Jazz Albums of 2019 (so far)]

5 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

They still make jazz records?  Who knew?

Yeah, pure vinyl. But I haven't bought one in more than 30 years.  

[My Favorite Jazz Albums of 2019 (so far)]

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

I second the hosannas for Sangam.   

* * * * 

Wish I could contribute something to this thread. But nearly all of my spending/investigating recently has been focused on older stuff

Well, we focus on what we like the most. I'm kinda obsessed with collecting new jazz. It's a little overwhelming because there's always something new coming out.

When I think of my collection, I think of "old jazz" as everything before 1969 and "new jazz" as everything after. My collection is 20% old and 80% new.  

Nice to see you here, HF. It's been a long time since the AAJ Forum!

Cheers, RM

[My Favorite Jazz Albums of 2019 (so far)]

3 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

I saw the Holland/Hussain/Potter combination (with several other musicians) live a couple of years ago and have been hoping for a recording.

I don't have that Charles Lloyd; sounds like I need it.

 

You DO need it. LOL. I love jazz albums that stand alone, that don't sound quite like anything else. And this fits the bill. Hussain has some amazing solos and Llloyd really soars. It's in the top 50 of all my albums.

Cheers, RM 

By the way, I mentioned the one by Ghost Rhythms. Their previous CD "Madeline" is an alternate soundtrack to Hitchcock's Vertigo. An astounding piece of music. Nothing out there remotely like it. Double album. You can hear it on: Bandcamp: https://ghostrhythms.bandcamp.com/album/madeleine

[My Favorite Jazz Albums of 2019 (so far)]

15 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Ordered this one... Good Hope - Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain & Chris Potter.

It's really good. Love anything that Holland and Potter do, but with Hussain, it's a magical combination. One of the best of the year, IMHO. Do you have Sangam by Charles Lloyd with Hussain and Eric Harland? One of my very favorite albums. Never gets old.

 

 

 

 

16 hours ago, kh1958 said:

I would include as favorite newly recorded 2019 jazz releases:

Alfredo Rodriguez and Pedrito Martinez, Duologue

Christian Scott, Ancestral Recall

Amirtha Kidambi and Elder Ones, From Untruth

John Chin, Fifth

Tom McDermott Meets Scott Joplin

Ahmad Jamal, Ballades

Abdullah Ibrahim, The Balance

James Carter Organ Trio, Live from Newport Jazz Festival

Thanks, I'll check out some of these!

[My Favorite Jazz Albums of 2019 (so far)]

There have been some really good jazz albums released this year - especially by my favorite artists. 

These are my 20 favorites for 2019, so far (in the order in which I got them). My only criteria for favorite albums is that I'm compelled to listen to them many times (sometimes for years).

* for albums from artists that are new for me this year

What are your favorites for this year? 

Glitter Wolf - Allison Miller 

Infinity - Tom Harrell

Animi - Shauli Einav

Voyage - Daniel Herskedal

Stomping Off From Greenwood - Greg Ward

Pacifica - The Vampires

Come What May - Joshua Redman

Scopes - Scopes, Ben Van Gelder, Tony Tixier

Ten - Beats & Pieces Big Band

*Very Stable Genius - Bryan McAllister

The Balance - Abdullah Ibrahim

Hidden Corners - Jamie Saft Quartet

Beyond Us - Angles 9

Where are You? - Kevin Hays, Mark Turner & Marc Miralta

*The Hunter - Skyjack

SuperBigmouth - Chris Lightcap

Live At Yoshiwara - Ghost Rhythms

Golden Valley is Now - Reid Anderson, Dave King & Craig Taborn

Good Hope - Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain & Chris Potter

Blue Dawn - Blue Nights - Wallace Roney

Cheers, RM

[The 80-20 principle of listening to jazz albums]

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Then again, it's always enjoyable to (re)discover a disc that's been sitting on the shelf for years unplayed. That's part of the fun too.

Yeah, I keep discovering old stuff that I kinda missed the first time around. I listen to most of my jazz on iTunes through a pre-amp and amplifier, so my whole collection is at my fingertips. I create a lot of segmented playlists so I can easily get back to the music I enjoy the most. 

50 minutes ago, felser said:

Have lots I'll never listen to again, but don't know exactly which ones in many cases.  Most of the ones I am sure I'm done with, I try to move on to a new home.

Kinda wish I could get rid of more stuff. But I'm attached... Every once in awhile I get rid of something I just don't like. But everything else is on tap 24/7. 

[The 80-20 principle of listening to jazz albums]

Ever heard of the 80-20 principle?

It states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the actions. And 20% of the results come from the other 80% of the actions. 

More or less. 

In jazz collections, I hypothesize that 80% of your jazz listening is from 20% of your albums. And the other 80% get just 20% of your listening time. 

More or less. 

For instance: I buy about 100 or so albums a year from the current year. 

And I'm lucky if I have 15 or 20 that I like enough to listen to over and over again. And the other 80 mostly get ignored after hearing them once or twice. 

The problem is that I have albums going back to the '50's. Thousands of 'em. And I know that some I will never listen to again in my lifetime. 

Is this true for you? Do you care? Does your unlistened-to-music miss you? 

Cheers, RM

[Charles Lloyd Quartet - Swiss Radio Days Jazz 46]

I have the three albums Lloyd released in 1967 - Journey Within, Love In and In the Soviet Union. I liked all of these, so hoping the Montreux set is comparable. 

Clearly, Lloyd is coming to the end of his career/life, but I love everything he does. His tone is not as strong as before, but something truly radiant pours out of him. I've only seen him live once at the Monterey Jazz Festival when he was playing with his Sangam trio which was incredible. (That album is one of my favorites of all time.)

[George Coleman's "The Quartet"]

Coleman also played on five of Chet Baker's albums for Prestige in the mid-60s. They kinda paralleled Miles' Cookin', Steamin', Relaxin', and Workin' of about 10 years earlier. They were held in a marathon session on August 23, 25 & 29, 1965, also like Miles did for his final Prestige albums. 

They were condensed into 3 albums sometimes later. Lonely Star, On a MIsty Night and Stairway to the Stars. Good playing from both Chet and George. 

[Jan Garbarek]

What the hell happened to Garbarek's recording career? I have just about all his albums and a ton of them as a sideman. 59 in all. Witchi-Tai-To may be my favorite, but I've enjoyed them all to some degree or the other over the years. The last one I have is the double live album, Dresen from 2009. Officium Novum came out in 210 and nary a peep since. But according to his website he still doing a lot of concerts all over Europe. But no more recordings for almost 10 years. Wonder why?

[John Coltrane - Blue World]

OK, I bought it, I downloaded it. I listened to it. I liked it. But wasn't wowed by it. Two Directions at once was much more interesting. It's just that there was only one new track, Blue World. On to the next.

Liking the new Nat Birchall tribute to Yusef Lateef, The Storyteller. Most of Birchall's albums have been inspired by Coltrane's spiritual side. So this one is a nice change. 

If it was a toss-up, I'd get the Birchall.

[Miles Davis’ lost album “Rubberband” set for release]

On 9/14/2019 at 1:27 PM, JSngry said:

fyi/fwiw - trees don't involve buying anything. The entire known live recordings of the Lost quintet were made available as a tree. That was a while back, though. BUT - there's nothing new under the sun, at least as far as this group goes. If you buy anything that's not "official", you're a sucker.

 

That’s quite a video!

[Andy LaVerne - Metropolis]

On 9/14/2019 at 4:47 PM, 7/4 said:

 

How about that...join us on FB.

Yeah, I’m a member and post occasionally. Lisa A has been a wonderful, gracious host.

[Andy LaVerne - Metropolis]

I ultimately found this used somewhere. It's good but hardly stunning. But glad to have it as I'm a kinda John Abercrombie completist. Stan Gets appears on two tracks. The story of how it was lost and found in the liner notes is quite fun. Think of all the music out there that got lost and never released. But old stuff is being found al the time 

My favorite in that category is Way Back When by John Surman.