Dub Modal

I've never heard Burrell in a big band setting, so that's a new one.

1 - oh yeah. sounds like some Charles Tolliver/Music Inc type vibes here. Love the composition and the playing all around. Great tune. The break at about 6:28 or so is super sweet. 2 - Lovely guitar led track. Sounds like a familiar tune...and multiple brass players add some layers too. Total shift of gears at 2:20 is nice. 3 - No clue who this pianist is. Like how they built the song from the lower keys. 4 - Another good one. Nice trumpet lead. 5 - B3 & guitar is a great recipe for music. Fantastic song here. 6 - Killer track after killer track. Love the brass attack here. The piano floats along too. Solos are good, just an all around fun track. 7 - Kind of similar to track 6 in certain ways. Great trumpet lead off and the ensemble plays really well the whole time. Bass player is flying too. Piano comping gets a bit distracting at times, maybe it's the recording though. 8 - Has a 60s BN feel to it. Nice trumpet opening. Strong melody. 9 - Great song. Nice build up to when they let loose but stay in that laid back funky groove. Guessing the bass player is the lead here? 10 - Familiar head on this one...love the big band version of it. Yeah, when the woodwinds come in it's a burner. Nice track. Drummer is on fire and is totally on the left side of this recording. Makes me want to guess Buddy Rich but could be another drummer lead with this kind of profiling. 11 - Noticing no piano but with guitar instead...but nice groove from the drums and bass. Trio like when it's just the trumpet with them. Very good song. Nifty quartet setting of guitar, drums, bass and trumpet. 12 - Timmy Thomas' Why Can't We Live Together. So freaking good. Soulful with that percussion & organ. Love this track. 13 - Love the flute and the slow build up to the massive groove this track has. Not a bad track here. Lots of favorites too. Thanks for this one!

Thanks. Sound Suggestions is actually the one I was going to pick up first.

Agree, very enjoyable. Big takeaways for me are the players on 2, 4, 6 & 9. That's a few times George Adams has hooked me. I need to pick up some of his albums.

Added to the list. Thanks for the rec!

I've recently become a big fan of Frank Butler. His playing really stood out to me on these albums. Gonna be looking for more... Meanwhile:

Both of these albums have Elmo Hope & Frank Butler, and both are excellent. Btw: Frank Butler is out-freaking-standing.

Nice. Good to know.

After the late 50s sessions moved on to some 60s Blue Note jazz with this well known warhorse. Less than 10 years had passed since those Land & Dameron albums had been recorded but the music here is so different. Looking at the age of the players involved across these albums tells a piece of that story. Almost everyone on Fontainebleu was over 30, and some near 40 at the time of recording while on Land's album most are in their 30s or on the cusp of them. Meanwhile for the Hancock record Tony Williams was 19 and the youngest at the session, but no one was over 30 y/o.

Per Discogs credits he splits alto duties with Bill Graham on this album, with Graham getting most of the time.

Sometimes late 50s jazz really hits the spot and these two albums are doing just that.

Cello & drums with Blythe's alto sax. There's so much in Blythe's playing and this album is outstanding as a show case of that.

Never listened to Supersax but have seen these records. I see they started as a Bird tribute group but were they kind of a precursor to the WSQ but with a rhythm section? Or were they always more big band-ish with traditional charts, etc.?

Yeah, this is good stuff.

Ok, interesting. Thanks. Those licks definitely stand out

Thad Jones & Mel Lewis ‎– Live At The Village Vanguard This is great...but what is the trombonist doing at about the 2 min mark in "A That's Freedom"? Is it Brookmeyer?

Some great songs here and I'm surprised I couldn't get that Griffin either b/c I have that album and really like it. And Brian Charette is a beast - got to pick up some of his stuff. Excellent BFT all around!

Barney Plays Kessel is a good one, and he turns in a good sideman appearance on Red Norvo's Music to Listen to Red Norvo By

I'd like to do one. How about June?

1 - kind of a modified latin rhythm here and I love the brass. Not sure who this is but it's a good song and really well recorded. 2 - Fantastic song, kind of a blues waltz. Excellent reeds players. Kind of reminds me of Johnny Hodges on alto but I'm sure it's not him. 3 - Really nice cover of some pop song is what it sounds like. The vibes player really lets em ring. Is it Burton? Nice trio tune here. 4 - Reggae cover of a song I've heard before (I think). Reggae covers have to be played with a drummer that knows what they're doing and this drummer's got it. I'm wondering if this is one of those Monty Alexander sessions? Tenor player is great and I love this tune. 5 - At first it sounds like Miles on trumpet, but this is a quartet date and I think his only studio quartet dates were on Blue Note and this doesn't sound like it's coming from those. So I don't know. Good tune. 6 - That spiritual jazz vein and I can't name the players. The song is good. I want to guess Pharaoh but I'm not sure it sounds like him. 7 - You dig these softly played jams don't you? Another great song. It's like these should go on the morning walk playlist. Some excellent playing here, noticing the bass especially. Steve Swallow maybe? Or Weber? 8 - I feel like there's got to be an Adderley Bros song in this group - is this it? Sounds like it could be but again, I'm probably wrong. Nice groove though. 9 - The sax here is killing it, just so good. Wow. No idea, I want to guess Ben Webster but nah, not him. Trumpet is great too. Unreal how good this is. 10 - No idea. Bells, vibes, marimba, it's all here and I have no clue. 11 - No idea yet again. Nice tune though, good melody and love the playing by the bass & drums.

Unexpectedly gritty & always jamming. I enjoy his records. The guy loved what he was doing and it came through his playing.

Bob James & David Sanborn's Double Vision and Earl Klugh's Soda Fountain Shuffle (actually, a lot of Klugh's 70s & 80s albums are worthwhile)

Track samples from that new album are really good.