Rabshakeh

An excellent record. Surprised that noone has mentioned Budd Johnson so far, as I love his solos on this one.

Thanks. I may will give it a taster.

Fez - Fez (Amiga, 1978)

What is it?

Larry Grenadier - The Gleaners (ECM, 2019)

This is really sad. So many great records.

John Carter Quintet – Variations

Morris Goldberg's Urban Jazz Band (Atlantic, 1975)

Gregg Karukas – Looking Up

Percy Faith Strings – Bouquet

It does seem like the answer to the question of whether there is was a Jamaican jazz scene is basically "no", subject to the proviso that many of the early instrumentalists had jazz training of sone sort. I went down a rabbit hole of Francophone Caribbean music last night. There's a whole lot of jazz in there.

I really like this one.

Walking around London at night with it on headphones on loop at the moment.

Paquito D'Rivera – Live At Keystone Korner (Columbia, 1983)

Oh no. RIP.

Good but no one involved's best, which is as expected. Only half way through though. It will need another listen or two. Part of the problem is that it is both a Roscoe Mitchell record in all but name but also an Art Ensemble record. I think that the urge to offer a wider platform but at the same time the lack of other compositional voices means that it falls a little flat. I suspect that I shall be returning to records like Bells for the South Side before I return to this. Have you heard it? What did you think?

Art Ensemble Of Chicago – The Sixth Decade - From Paris To Paris (Live At Sons D’Hiver)

Mark Turner – Ballad Session (Warner, 2000) First listen. Not really shifting my view of Turner.

I had not realised he was still alive. RIP.

It's just my listening habits. I can't handle a box set. Thanks for the recommendations. Pee Wee and Teagarden I know and love. I am particularly looking for the ones mentioned upthread: George Brunis, Wild Bill Davison, and George Wettling, and other

The Bay City Jazz Band – The Bay City Jazz Band (Good Time Jazz, 1956) A lot more of something in this one than in most of the San Francisco trad records. Blues feeling, maybe. I like it a lot more than the Turk Murphies and Yerba Buenas I've been flagelating myself with recently.

I'm more familiar with mento/Calypso, blue beat, ska, dancehall etc, than Jamaican jazz. I was just wondering whether there was a jazz scene. It seems strange that an island with such a strong recording industry would have produced breakout jazz exports but not have recorded any of them, or any jazz musicians who stayed. Possibly the record industry was so strong that jazz just got subsumed into the other genres mentioned here.

Inspired by a recent Tyler King substack on Ernest Ranglin. In the 1950s, Jamaica produced some really excellent jazz musicians like Shake Keane, Joe Harriott, Harold McNair and Dizzy Reece. But I think I only know of these musicians because they had their base in London or New York. Presumably Jamaica had a home grown jazz scene to have produced artists like this? Did any of them record in Jamaica?

Or the 90s? These kind of blogs are hugely helpful for uncovering records for undiscovered periods.

Bumping this one. Any recommendations for non-Condon Condonites very welcome, particularly recommendations from the LP era.