xybert

There's been quite a few covers of Smells Like Teen Spirit but i'm not sure whether it'd be considered a standard in the 'call it on the bandstand' vein.

It's amazing how having the spotlight fall on a particular track or album can make you re-hear it. Never really took much notice of this song. Now, yeah, i'm conscious of it!

1954 Vogue Paris date recorded for them in NYC. I have a lovely 10inch UK edition . Music is great Thanks! 1959, I thought. And I almost didn't reply to this thread because I knew I would forget someone major. And I did. Herbie Nichols on Blue Note! You're right, sorry! Released 1960 on Hifijazz, not sure where I got 1961 from. And yeah, Herbie Nichols of course! His was one of the first names that crossed my mind seing this topic, but he's been mentioned and I'm not sure how useful it is if I do another list of artists already mentioned Actually, if you have time, please do make a list, especially if it's artists already mentioned! It's actually very useful. For example, seeing Concert By The Sea on Hutchfan's list... it put's things in to context in terms of, hey he's digging a lot of the same stuff as me, but i've never thought to really check out Errol Garner let alone that album, let's have a listen... Or if not a list, just post some favourites that come to mind. I really appreciate everyone's posts here. For me it's really helpful to see what individual members here consider to be their personal favourite albums. And if there's crossover with other members, even better!

Condolences. I cried like a baby when i had to say goodbye to our cat of 18 years.

Cheers for the posts guys. Some thoughts: Pleased to see the love for The Kenny Drew Trio. Ellington's Piano Reflections... so good, loved that one so much i bought a brand new copy just in case my perfectly good second hand copy ever conked out. I really need to check out some Twardzik and Hope. Listened to a bit of Concert By The Sea on Spotify. I'd never heard it; defied my expectations. Nice! Duke Jordan is someone that i want to check out more of. Does anyone know anything about this album: It was reissued in Japan in 2014 and is available really cheap.

There's a few piano trio threads on the board but i couldn't find one specifically on this topic. I initially wrote a long rambling post about piano trios and what makes a good one or a bad one, but ultimately it's easier just to ask: What are your must have, can't live without, piano/bass/drums trio albums from the fifties? Any and all general discussion/thoughts/opinions on fifties piano trios or particular artists welcome. I don't see any need to limit it to ten or whatever; for you there could be less than ten, or more than ten. For me, i don't really have enough piano trio albums from the era to have a meaningful opinion. I love Bud Powell, Bill Evans, Monk and Herbie Nichols and have most if not all of their available trio albums from the fifties... apart from that, off the top of my head i have a smattering of trio albums from Tatum, Ellington, Hawes, Sonny Clark, Kenny Drew, Red Garland, John Lewis, Bley, Jamal... but in terms of fifties trio albums i have no Ray Bryant, Elmo Hope, Al Haig, Barry Harris, Duke Jordan, Duke Pearson, The Three Sounds, Wynton Kelly, Horace Parlan, Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson, Phineas Newborn Jr etc etc... I'm really just starting to get in to it. There's a sea of albums out there and i'm trying to get a bit of a handle on it. Cheers.

Didn't watch the All Blacks game this morning. We won but i heard that we were a bit shaky. Might be a good sign that we're starting slow as we usually peak too early while other teams in the tournament save their best for when it counts. I'm a bit out of touch, haven't managed to catch any of the international matches leading up to the cup. Now that it's in full swing i'm going to try to get more in to it. Japan's win over South Africa: Wow. Everyone in the office is following them now.

Crazy, sounds like something from a movie. Good to read that the authorities had their backs.

Yeah, if there's any ambiguity i usually go by who the 'key' artist is for me. If i have no other work by the artist whose name it should technically be under, there's no point in having that one album floating around in the abyss where i only stumble across it rarely. Sometimes it's just a case of 'who do i listen to that album more for?' Keep in mind that 'filing' has nothing to do with taking away from the other artists or trying to assign credit to the guy i like more or whatever. Some examples: Most of the Max Roach duet albums i have i file under the other artists name (Braxton, Taylor etc). Art Blakey with Monk i file under Monk. Stitt/Powell/Johnson i file under Powell/Stitt/Johnson. Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 I file under Bird rather than Dizzy. Bean Bags i file under Bean & Bags rather than Bags & Bean Little Women's Throat album i just file under Darius Jones Flute Force 4 - Flutistry (Don't think there's ever going to be another Flute Force 4 record. File this under Threadgill). Bags and Trane i've filed under Trane & Refuge Trio i've filed under John Hollenbeck w/ Costumes Are Mandatory: technically an Ethan Iverson album, although he himself said that he considered Lee Konitz to be the defacto leader. As you wish! If i get any further Iverson albums in the future i might refile it but for now i reach for this album to hear recentish Konitz so it's more useful for me to file it under Konitz w/) Flux and Change goes under Paul & rather than Enrico & Dual Identity i file under Steve & rather than Rudresh &

The Four Brothers Sound was recently reissued as part of the 1000Y Warner EU/JP series.

Insert Kanye West/South Park reference here.

I agree 100%, Jim. Case in point: Listen to Cowell's work with the Bobby Hutcherson-Harold Land Quintet -- as on Medina and Spiral. This is vital music that's often overlooked. To my ears, this is some of the best music that Bobby Hutcherson ever made -- and Cowell's contributions are crucial. In the last year i was finally able to get copies of Medina, Spiral and Patterns when they were reissued in Japan. Excellent stuff! Yeah Cowell is excellent on these albums, his solos always hold my attention.

xybert, he's from the Netherlands. Peter (mainly with his trio) is a regular visitor to the US and Japan and also many European countries from Poland to Spain and from Rumania to France. He's a real good pianist. Cheers, i'll have to give him a listen. One of those things where, now that i'm conscious of him, i'll probably see him everywhere.

FWIW i'd never heard of Peter Beets (apologies in advance if people have posted about him here and it hasn't registered... sometimes things go in one eye and out the other). Interesting that George Arvanitas got mentioned. I just happened to pull out my copy of The New Thing and the Blue Thing last night to see who was on piano and was like 'huh, that's a name i'm not familiar with.'

Listening to the radio this morning on the way to work, there was this call in competition where you have to guess who the famous person is. They give you a clue, someone calls in and has a guess, they get it wrong, then they give another clue, someone else calls in and has a guess etc until someone gets it. So the clues given at the stage we were listening were: - He had been a private in the army (someone guessed Forrest Gump lol) - He lived to be 90. - He worked at a gas station and sold insurance before coming up with the thing that made him famous. So this guy calls up, he was going to guess Elvis but the previous person had already guessed that and realised that he didn't live to 90 anyway. So the hosts take pity on him and tell him to take a wild stab in the dark. The guy has no idea, and you can hear in his voice that he can't even be bothered thinking of anyone random, so slim are the odds that it would be right. My wife, who was sitting next to me, says, "the KFC guy!" and i'm like, slightly contemptuously, "seriously? The clues are so obscure, it could literally be anybody." So anyway the caller is umming and ahhing and blindly guesses "aaaah Colonel Sanders?" and what do you know it was the right answer.

That's actually not a bad tune - a little syrupy, but not bad. Makes me miss both Dudley Moore and Sir John Gielgud. Co-written by Burt Bacharach. Misheard lyrics file: i could've sworn it was 'Livin' it up between the moon and New York City' rather than what it actually is. Don't mind the song in that weird nostalgia/vertigo kind of way, but the combo of the music and images of Arthur gives me the creeps.

Thanks Allen, Paypal sent.

This is great news. Allen, are these all being released on the same day or are they being released separately over a few months or whatever? Cheers.

That was pretty cool.

In general i find his music to be very accessible. There's just something straight up catchy about so much of it. A lot of 'avant' music is structured, sure, but Threadgill's music just seems to be structured in a particularly accessible/appealing way for some reason. The rhythms frequently straight up rock. His songs often have big, catchy hooks. If i was talking to a non-jazz fan who was in to Zappa and post-rock type stuff, maybe flirts with a bit of Sharrock etc, i'd happily recommend that they check out Threadgill.

I'm not all that familiar with the Music of West Side Story, but i quite liked this album: Haven't listened to the whole album in a while but i still spin Maria every now and again. Would be keen to hear what you guys think of this version, postive/negative/ambivalent/whatever.

I know it's been discussed before (if not here then elsewhere), but how much of an influence was Guaraldi on Jarrett? Was a just a flavour that was in the air at the time, pure coincidence or was Guaraldi a direct influence?

Yup.

Not sure if he was approached in the early days, but funnily enough: http://peanuts.wikia.com/wiki/Quiet_as_the_Moon "Quiet as the Moon is an album by Dave Brubeck. It is a soundtrack for the episode "The NASA Space Station" from This Is America, Charlie Brown."