Hardbopjazz

RIP. two of greatest pitchers I ever seen died a few weeks apart from each other.

That’s what happens when I type on my iPhone. It always thinks I meant to spell something else.

McCartney, Starr, Townsend and Doltrey to form a new group and will record an album and tour. Ha ha ha. https://madhousemagazine.com/beatles-the-who-merge-to-record-album-tour-in-2021/?fbclid=IwAR2A69uLjei8tSbWjK0dmApBU8vFcaF3ETBKFn_NHOecdORjZW0n52eOrKY

She was 78.

He’s got my vote.

JAZZ NOTES He wrote his first piece when a boy, by way of trying to woo a girl. That he failed in his quest didn't cause Wayne Shorter too much angst because he already saw art as a doorway to adventures of a more internal sort. Chasing girls was put on hold while he conquered clarinet, saxophone, and composition. He listened avidly to Stravinsky, Dvorak, and Ravel, and then at the age of 15 heard Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie. His world was turned on its head. https://www.theage.com.au/culture/music/assured-and-compelling-wayne-shorter-s-relentless-quest-for-truth-20200928-p55zu7.html?fbclid=IwAR0ppdEEg4t1vICIrWXa7k8QuwVoCkBdZgm4KQGjJSRMrLThMqX2sGWSIuY

Thanks for the alert. I will be getting this one.

Happy birthday, Gary. Enjoy and stay healthy.

I've been listening to Lee Konitz's "Lone-Lee" solo album. This is a good one.

It will go into a wing named after me of a museum called trash 😀

RIP. She’s hanging with Miles again.

Sad news. RIP Ira. He was one of the greats.

Single pedal of a rose. I love that tune.

They are. No need for this one for me after checking.

With 40 minutes of outtakes, I just might buy my third copy of this session. John Coltrane: Giant Steps 60th Anniversary Edition review – more a giant leap in jazz 4 / 5 stars4 out of 5 stars. (Rhino) This celebratory reissue includes outtakes that confirm the original’s brilliance and the sense of a genius in transition Within the same few weeks in the spring of 1959, the great saxophonist and composer John Coltrane astonishingly found the composure to play a key role on one of the most thoughtful and spacious of all jazz albums – Miles Davis’s iconic Kind of Blue – and the virtuosity and fearless insight to record one of the fastest and most intense, his own game-changing Giant Steps. In 1959, Miles was moving toward a meditatively floating and almost chordless music in his search for a new jazz language, while Coltrane’s route was to pack his pieces with so much harmonic movement and warp-speed fast lines that it could seem as if he were trying to outrun his listeners’ aural perceptions and fool them that the hundreds of notes pouring from his horn were really one long seamlessly soulful wail. Giant Steps’ 60th anniversary is celebrated this month by Rhino’s CD, vinyl and download release, including 40 minutes of outtakes, and illuminating liner notes by Coltrane authority Ashley Kahn. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/18/john-coltrane-giant-steps-60th-anniversary-edition-review

Was there really a campaign to stop teens from listening to jazz in the 60's?

He was very active in the jazz world. Many times he would speak before concerts and give his opinion. RIP, Stanley.

Jamal Plays Jamal.

RIP, Reggie.

As a young boy, I had a big crush on her. RIP Diana.

It will be out sometime next year. Sonny has been working on it with with a writer. Aidan Levy is currently writing a biography of Sonny Rollins. Sonny has been involved, but I don't know to what extent.

It will be out sometime next year. Sonny has been working on it with with a writer. Here is an interview just done for his 90th birthday.

Two baseball greats from my childhood dead in the same week. Both Brock and Seaver were two of the best.

An old interview. https://tidal.com/magazine/article/qa-sonny-rollins/1-74370?fbclid=IwAR3J4MuuM2uim82PwWkJXTukuQu_4CjOKbgY95In3dK3NGTe7umZNhc14aA