What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Larry Kart]

2 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

It is coupled with Red's first leader date - a 10 inch Prestige lp from 1951. Personnel is Jimmy Ford (alto), Phil Raphael (piano), Phil Leshin (bass) and Phil Brown (drums). This date was also included in this -

Ira told me in an interview that Red told  him to play tenor on the "Modern Music from Chicago"  date and then when they got to the last tune, an uptempo number, Red insisted that Ira switch from tenor to trumpet -- this because, Ira said, "he knew that by then my [trumpet] chops would be down." Summing things up, Ira said: "He whipped game on me."

[JSngry]

Jimmy Ford?!?!?!

[porcy62]

[Larry Kart]

On 3/16/2022 at 7:36 PM, JSngry said:

Jimmy Ford?!?!?!

Why not?

[JSngry]

No, just always interested when his name pops up. Not at all a "familiar" name in the history books. He came back off the road (after Maynard, I think?) and lived out his life in Houston, only sometimes being seen there. And I had just listened to him on a locally recorded Arnette Cobb record, literally a day before seeing the reference here.

The guy played with Tadd Dameron for crying out loud, he was more than just a name!!!!

[Larry Kart]

I saw Jimmy Ford with Maynard's big band on a Birdland All Stars tour in the late 1950e. He got up to take a solo --a good one, too, very fiery -- and in the midst of it he had a violent spasm, one hand came off the horn and flapped up into the air above his head. I wondered about that, and even at the tender age of 13 or so, I had an idea.

[clifford_thornton]

tourettes?

[jazzcorner]

[BillF]

10 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

[jazzcorner]

12 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

tourettes?

Who knows?  Was that observed also in his later  carreer?

[Gheorghe]

16 hours ago, JSngry said:

No, just always interested when his name pops up. Not at all a "familiar" name in the history books. He came back off the road (after Maynard, I think?) and lived out his life in Houston, only sometimes being seen there. And I had just listened to him on a locally recorded Arnette Cobb record, literally a day before seeing the reference here.

The guy played with Tadd Dameron for crying out loud, he was more than just a name!!!!

I did know his name only from the picture in Jazz Master´s of the 40´s, where he with the Tadd Dameron group from Royal Roost. On the broadcasts from those sessions he does not appear.

And right, I saw him .... I think it was in the mid 80´s with Arnette Cobb. As much as I remember he was a middle aged, a bit hefty guy with red hair, and played some really fine alto. I don´t know why I didn´t go to the bar and talk to him during intermission, maybe I would have asked him about his time with Tadd. I remember that was a three horn thing with Arnette Cobb, there was also a trumpet player, who´s name I don´t remember and he was not so great. 

Cobb of course was on crutches, but stood in front of the mike, didn´t sit down, played great and as much as I remember he drank whisky.... 

13 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

I´ll never forget when I bought it , I think it was 1977 and I was still at high school. Those years, when I was just exploring be bop, and at the same time free jazz and electric jazz. 

It was spring, and when I got home and spinned it, there was that french radio voice tellin somethin about Jean Sebastian Bach and Mozard, which I couldnt associate with the music, and then while this french man is still doin his bla bla, the group comes in with "Rifftide" , and those fast versions of Wee and Ornithology, and the first time I heard Good Bait and Lady Bird. 

I remember how much I loved Moody´s playing. Until then the only tenor players I knew and saw live were Griffin and Liebman. And Moody does some screams here, that sound more like post 60´s , 70´s tenor playing and I thought "almost like Liebman ". 

Miles is so great here, first class bop trumpet, equal to Diz and Fats and Kenny..

[porcy62]

[HutchFan]

After some recent Ruby Braff talk on another thread:

Dick Hyman & Ruby Braff - Manhattan Jazz (Musicmasters, 1987)

 

and

Etta Jones - Save Your Love for Me (Muse, 1981)

Terrific!   

 

Edited March 18, 2022 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

[porcy62]

[HutchFan]

Now on my 'table:

Didier Lockwood - Out of the Blue (Gramavision, 1985)
features a superb rhythm section: Gordon Beck, Cecil McBee, and Billy Hart

 

[mjazzg]

Some British Jazz for the afternoon

John Keating and All Stars - British jazz [Oriole, UK 1956]

Bill LeSage directing Directions In Jazz Unit - Road To Ellingtonia [Phillips, UK 1965]

Music From The Soundtrack 'All Night Long' [Fontana, UK 1962]

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Meredith d'Ambrosio - The Cove (Sunnyside, 1988)
with Lee Konitz, Fred Hersch, Michael Formanek, and Keith Copeland

 

[Rabshakeh]

2 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Next up:

Meredith d'Ambrosio - The Cove (Sunnyside, 1988)
with Lee Konitz, Fred Hersch, Michael Formanek, and Keith Copeland

 

Interesting looking one. I don't know it.

[HutchFan]

Just now, Rabshakeh said:

Interesting looking one. I don't know it.

d'Ambrosio is an interesting singer.  Very, very quiet and inward -- at the other end of the spectrum from singers with powerhouse voices like Ella or Sarah.

At times, d'Ambrosio reminds me of Irene Kral -- although, to my ears, her artistry isn't quite on Irene's level.  (Admittedly, Kral is one of my very favorite singers.)

In any case, here's the The Cove on d'Ambrosio's bandcamp page, if you'd like to give it a listen.  

 

[Rabshakeh]

27 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

d'Ambrosio is an interesting singer.  Very, very quiet and inward -- at the other end of the spectrum from singers with powerhouse voices like Ella or Sarah.

At times, d'Ambrosio reminds me of Irene Kral -- although, to my ears, her artistry isn't quite on Irene's level.  (Admittedly, Kral is one of my very favorite singers.)

In any case, here's the The Cove on d'Ambrosio's bandcamp page, if you'd like to give it a listen.  

 

Thank you for this.

Sadly, key word for me is "singer".

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Thank you for this.

Sadly, key word for me is "singer".

Not a fan of vocals, eh?

 

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Helen Humes - Helen (Muse, 1981)
with Buddy Tate, Joe Wilder, Norman Simmons, Billy Butler, George Duvivier, and Butch Miles

produced by Bob Porter

 

[HutchFan]

Now on my 'table:

Carmen McRae Sings "Lover Man" and Other Billie Holiday Classics (Columbia, 1962)
1981 Jazz Odyssey Series reissue

 

[jazzcorner]