mhatta

Perhaps Debut?

Great writing indeed. I've never seen a photo of Stinson before. I see that Bobby Hutcherson's ‘Now’ was a memorial to Stinson. I don't really know much about bass playing, but when playing with Miles, I feel that Stinson's playing is more orthodox, or like a steady jazzy walking style. On the other hand, when comparing him to others, you can see the uniqueness of Ron Carter, who seems ordinary but is actually very individualistic.

I think it was seven years ago that I happened to be in San Jose in the summer and went to see the San Jose Jazz Fest. When I heard the song “Bitter Sweet Samba” (which almost every Japanese know without the song title because it is the theme song of a famous radio program in Japan), I thought it might be a copy band of Tijuana Brass, but it was Herb Alpert himself. Is he already 90 years old or something?

Kinda off topic... I went to Paris last week, so I visited Rue de Clichy. According to Peter Pullman's ‘Wail’, the Francis Paudras family lived with Bud Powell at 64 Rue De Clichy. Now there is a bistro or sports bar on the ground floor, but it looks like the upper floors are still residential. I wonder what floor they lived on.

I had only heard her name before, but I had never heard her music. It seems that you can listen to her 3 leader dates on some music subscription services, except for the Discovery album. Her rhythm was a little stiff, but I think she had a considerable knowledge of harmony (she played songs by Shorter, for example). The fact that she played piano in the Mary Moore Tyler Show band is a career similar to Michael Wolf (the band leader of the Arsenio Hall Show). https://www.jazzdisco.org/joyce-collins/catalog/

jazzdisco.org has been a project by 3 Japanese jazz enthusiasts, including yours truly. I haven't been very active recently, but I'm thinking of getting back into it. Sorry about pop-ups -- I recommend you to use ad blockers. https://jazzmf.com/ Looks like he was active as of at least 2022.

Very interesting release indeed. What worries me a little is that Orville O'Brien recorded Art Blakey's Live! At Slug's N.Y.C. at the roughly same time at the same venue, but the sound quality is not so good. It's probably better than bootleg, but I wonder how it sounds about this one.

Heartily agree. For example, I I sometimes dream of Ornette Coleman The Bootleg Series Vol. X: Skies of Americas because Ornette has performed Skies of America several times over the years with various orchestras, all different. Some have leaked as bootlegs.

I didn't really like him as a tenor sax player, but I think he is the greatest jazz composer. His music had its own inherent beauty and charm, but he also left a lot of room for other people to interpret it freely (in that sense, I think he was similar to Cole Porter and Carla Bley). Bud Powell's interpretation of I Remember Clifford is a good example. RIP Maestro. It seems that the history of "modern" jazz is about to truly come to an end.

RIP. I wish he recorded more, considering his excellent performance with Kenny Dorham's band, but he must have had a long and full life. A fine example of Mr. Edghill's tasteful drumming. I wonder where the unreleased tapes of this session have gone?

Everybody(I guess) loves Fire Eater! At least I love it!

Oscar Pettiford's (just 21 years old) solo in the latter's The Man I Love is unforgettable. Even his intense breathing is recorded. This album was both my introduction to Dexter Gordon and my introduction to jazz. I think it formed in my mind an inescapable image of what jazz is.

Cobb & Jacquet, with Dex, Buddy Tate and Budd Johnson (and Hank Jones Trio)...very saxy! Everybody seem to have a ball.

Chico Freeman has been a bit of enigma for me...Chico plays really great when he is playing with Cecil McBee (Spirit Sensitive is a good example). Playing slow or fast, he is howling at the world, a tenor man with a presence that rivals his father's. But without Cecil, he seems to be just another member of the band. I don't know why there is such a difference even though this is the same person.

I think Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 10 can do that.

All performances from July 26, 1963 are released in a bootleg called "Another In Europe" (So What). July 27, 1963 is the official "Miles In Europe" (CBS). From July 28, 1963, only 2 tunes ("If I Were A Bell" "So What") are released in "Another In Europe". So the other 2 are newly unearthed. Actually, the July 25 performance in Paris was also recorded, but the tape is missing in the ORTF archive. I hoped they could locate it, but well... Both sets from October 1, 1964 are released in a bootleg called "In Paris 1964" (So What). But the sound quality is terrible (I guess it's from radio airchecks), so I hope they could improve it (hopefully with master tapes from ORTF). So, well, maybe 90%? BTW, the music is a top notch.

These are good performances, I think they originated from ORTF.

I like UCC's Oishii Caffeineless Coffee, but I think it would be difficult to buy abroad...

I had not paid much attention to the Clifford Jordan Big Band that Jordan led in his final years, but when I heard it recently, it was quite good. Jordan's ability to compose/arrange music is well represented. In the year of this recording, he led his big band to Japan, but Jordan was already very ill and could not conduct or play tenor saxophone (Dizzy Reece conducted in his place).

Speaking of personnel, I'm sure that it is “Philly” Joe Jones playing drums on this album, but it appears to be “Papa” Joe Jones on Discogs and elsewhere. I wonder which one it is?

Some time ago I read Lewis Porter wrote about this TV show. I didn't know that "Earl" in "That's Earl, Brother" is for this Earl Wilson, the host of this show. https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/every-film-of-charlie-parker-10-the

Very good one! Compassion, recorded the next day at the same place and with the same lineup, is also excellent, but for some reason it does not seem to have been released on CD or streamed. I thought all Enja discs were released on CD, but obviously am wrong.

I don't call the organists after Jimmy Smith as something like clones of Jimmy Smith; just as Bud Powell doesn't resemble Bud Powell's followers, Jimmy Smith is very individualistic and resembles no one. And the organists who came out after Smith's success--Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Richard Groove Holmes, Freddie Roach, Reuben Wilson, Larry Young and others--were all unique and distinctive. Personally, I prefer Prestige to BN's organ stuff because they are more earthy, but, well, that's probably just a matter of taste...

I just noticed that it came out this year and this is very good!

I'm probably a generation or two younger than the regulars on this forum, so I've lived a life with no vinyls whatsoever. My entire collection is on CD. However, there are quite a few sound sources that were never eventually made into CDs (which means they were never properly digitized, so it's hard to get decent sound quality streaming), so I'm thinking of buying LPs. Recently, LPs are booming in Japan, and there are some handy turntables such as Audio-Technica's Soundburger. I am not a person who is particular about sound quality, so it is enough if I can stream via Bluetooth. https://www.audio-technica.co.jp/soundburger/