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1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:
To be honest, it was a bit disappointing. Most of the tracks were lacking , what for me, was depth and a true jazz sensibility.
Your feedback is well shared. After purchasing it, I do find the style was a bit commercial without more emotion from the Chevrolet-famous Ms. Shore. (But that commercial would have benefited possibly with a jazz feel and a scat chorus or two as well.)
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On 1/29/2024 at 10:08 AM, sidewinder said:
Ken Moule Ensemble - 'Adam's Rib Suite' (Ember/Acrobat)
On 2/21/2024 at 4:38 PM, optatio said:👍 - as LP on my shelf!
On 2/27/2024 at 1:06 AM, EKE BBB said:Disc #1 from
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4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:
Is this album as interesting as most of Andre Previn’s?
I was impressed with “The Man I Love” from the first listen. Surprising, in a good way.
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Re: Cal Tjader “Our Blues”
How would you say this stacks up with the At Grace Cathedral album?
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Non-jazz, but a welcome departure from
holiday music and jazz light... Juice for a
new year.
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3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:
Re: Houston Person April in Paris, the sax shaped Eiffel Tower in the cover art is pretty hip, huh? Jon King
should read - Live in Paris
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Absolutely, please move the thread. JK
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45 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:
I've had High Priestess of Soul for ages, and only recently learned that a young Angelo Badalamenti, of David Lynch fame, co-wrote two of the tunes on the album!
Interesting, TTK.
Also, wanted to suggest a great, but obscure, downloadable anthology that I listen to when time is limited.
The Definitive Rarities Collection - 50 Classic Cuts, Nina SimoneGreat alternate performances and live material that shines in a freer way than her more accessible albums that we also collect.
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4 minutes ago, mikeweil said:
Nina, of course. I share her birthday.
Cheers!
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19 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:
Nina?
I am a big Nina fan. I have all of her Philips albums, and much of her RCA and Colpix catalogs, along with her Bethlehem album.
I listen to singers and standards a lot in November, for some reason, and I have an annual tradition of playing Nina every Thanksgiving.
1 hour ago, Jon King said:Would anyone guess to whom I refer? Hint: Today marks her 90th Birthday (1933-2003).
Me too!
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Would anyone guess to whom I refer? Hint: Today marks her 90th Birthday (1933-2003).
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One person's junk is another's treasure....vis a vis Easy Listening
All music is not musical to me. Certainly, not beyond my picky affection for acoustic drumming. Anything that does not swing, rock, roll, waltz, shimmy or make me want to dance otherwise, can be tedious and outright distracting. Most people seem to like dancing, as do I. I once walked out of a famous country and western singer's performance, when I overdosed on repetitive rhythm guitar licks played with no regard for soloing even in a shit-kicking, heartland affirming concert facility where I once had marveled at one of Louis Armstrong's bands, the MJQ, Ella Fitzgerald, David Clayton Thomas and others. I enjoyed the music, and was turned off by the garage band C&W sound attack.
Easy listening for the most part has never moved me dance - just to hang up, leave the elevator, or find another chain store with better demographics.
Give real drums a chance, electric drum machines are like that endless 2-chord "soloing" in that guitar player's trick bag.
Lacking.
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10 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:
You would shine a light on the strobe to be sure the record was turning at the right speed, especially important if speed differences resulted in your instrument not being in tune with the record.
Well, another brick in the wall…. Thank you for that info.
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11 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Strobe on the label!
Could you elaborate please? First time knowledge. I thought strobes were for dancing.
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4 hours ago, JSngry said:
Well, this looks interesting. Are the tunes still requested? I like Mehldau’s Hendrix and Beatles tracks, for example. Once requested “High Heeled Sneakers” during a set at a bbq blues place in Kansas City, and The Rest Is History thanks to Linda Schell and her Blues Thang.
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Yep, one of those MMO albums, in this case, featuring selfless souls such as Milton Delugg, Billy Butterfield, Don Lamond, and other studio gems laying down the skeletons of Swing as they swang hard.
As Dick Gibson frequently said, "I could get this band work in Jersey."
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4 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Leon Thomas “Full Circle” Flying Dutchman cd
Not your typical Leon Thomas album, but it has that Friday thang goin’ on. … . The Santana tune is great.
👍👍
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Billy Butterfield & The Essex Five - “Deed I Do”
yes, I have been discovering a new/old trumpet player. This track keeps me grooving with its economically tight front line and a great drummer. The drum work is more bebop while the trumpet/sax harmony almost goes cool. Think Kenny Clarke + cool Miles - ahhh.
College Jazz Sampler, 1955
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... more Butterfield...(Armstrong-esque, but more school-sounding IMO.) Check: on Apple Music, Billy Butterfield.
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Probably limited distribution, Tietgen lived and performed in the Sonoma, CA area.
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16 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:
There are a dozen tunes by The Billy Butterfield Jazz Band on this set...
Happy to know. Will check out. Thanks
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3 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:
As much as I am a fan of Swing (i.e Swing-style and Swing-era jazz) and interested in exploring the whole scope of artists, I never could quite figure out what to make of Billy Butterfield and where he fit into the overall picture of the era when Swing was the thing. To exaggerate a little - among white trumpeters, was he one who really had his heart in blowing "hot" (and may have been hampered by commercial considerations of the A&R men only) or was he apt to drift off into "Charlie Spivak territory" 😉 at any moment?
I haven't done a closer check of the recordings where he might pop up as a soloing sideman in the Swing era (Bob Crosby, above all - his stints with Shaw, Goodman and Brown seem to have been brief). But his mid-40s Capitol leader dates do not seem to have been graced with widespread reissues (of his original releases, the track listing of the 10" in the "Classics in Jazz" series looks the most promising).
And it IS amazing that Mosaic did not see fit to include even ONE single track of his Capitol leader recordings in their 12-CD "Classic Capitol Jazz Sessions" box set. 🤨 Did they consider him THAT "run of the mill", "neither flesh nor fowl", "commercial" or whatever, even if they had extracted his swingingest sides only? (Including at least a selection of his more swinging affairs would have been a service to collectors because a few of the others they included on that set have been around the reissue block in lots of different guises before)So ... what I did pick up through the years as I came across his leader dates on vinyl are these (which feature non-commercial transciptions from his 40s Capitol period but do mix hot and sweet/sugary and seem to have a few overlaps, FWIW):
(Incidentally, when I first became more widely aware of him in a radio show here - in the early 80s - that did a special on him, I found out later that his leader recordings featured on that show were taken from the above Hindsight LP (that was then fairly new on the market) - as if they had none of his other leader dates in their archives)
And among the later dates that he participated in, the "Session At Riverside" album on Capitol is certainly worth (re-)exploring too:
https://www.discogs.com/de/master/659782-Various-Session-At-Riverside
Wonderful info. Thanks kindly!
This all was a result from my viewing a documentary detailing the personalities of musicians at a Dick Gibson jazz party held in Denver/Colo Springs. Butterfield was featured muttering, joking and performing several brief choruses - not just "hot", but blisteringly so. So, began my quest to find more....
There is almost a rabbit hole of "run of the mill" (as you say) commercial music listed for him, but I've sampled most for naught. His phrasing on those solos from the movie was almost the greatest trumpet playing I had ever heard.
I have found several recordings on Apple Music that are rewarding: "Keep Smiling" and "College Jazz Sampler - Actual Jazz Concerts Recorded on the Campus." And, it was worth doing.... JK
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obscure and hard to find always welcome, thanks
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14 hours ago, Gheorghe said:
I think Barry Harris was the next thing to Bud Powell. I don´t have records with him as a leader, but many where he is a sideman.
This is bebop piano masterclass. IMO
14 hours ago, Gheorghe said:I think Barry Harris was the next thing to Bud Powell. I don´t have records with him as a leader, but many where he is a sideman.
This CD is bebop piano masterclass, IMO.
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58 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:
Good playing here from Al Cohn, Joe Puma and Dick Katz.
Must have been a leader of the stars with one-name monikers, like Elvis, Cher, Donovan, Dizzy and others. Great cover, headline font, use of color. Just downloaded the Apple music "Candido" to check out the music. Thanks for your post in this case.
So, What Are You Listening To NOW?
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New favorite display font!!! Beautiful impact and amazing Readability. This cover art is worth its salt in my book. Who designed it??