What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[HutchFan]

Regarding "orchestras" in jazz:

It's a duo album.

 

 

[jazzcorner]

On 10/8/2025 at 1:20 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I have never understood why some producers call a small band like this quintet an "orchestra". It's not an orchestra, it's a quintet.

Here is another one : small group and/or 'orchestra' ?????

 

Verve UMV 2686 (Japan 1980) - Roy Eldridge And His Orchestra " Rocking Chair" - rec. 1951

As listed in Tom Lord's Discography:
Roy Eldridge (tp) / Buddy Tate (ts) / Teddy Brannon (p) / Claude Lombardi (g) / Charlie Smith (dr)

Note: the liner notes of the LP list as rhythm section Oscar Peterson (p & org) / Barney Kessell (g) / Ray Brown (b) + string section dir. by George Williams on the following tracks: Basin Street Blues/ I see everybodys baby /Easter Parade and I remember Harlem.
 




 

Edited Thursday at 05:53 PM by jazzcorner

[optatio]

24 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

Here is another one : small group and/or 'orchestra' ?????

 

Verve UMV 2686 (Japan 1980) - Roy Eldridge And His Orchestra " Rocking Chair" - rec. 1951

As listed in Tom Lord's Discography:
Roy Eldridge (tp) / Buddy Tate (ts) / Teddy Brannon (p) / Claude Lombardi (g) / Charlie Smith (dr)

Note: the liner notes of the LP list as rhythm section Oscar Peterson (p & org) / Barney Kessell (g) / Ray Brown (b) + string section dir. by George Williams on the following tracks: Basin Street Blues/ I see everybodys baby /Easter Parade and I remember Harlem.
 



 

👍 - on my shelf!

[jazzcorner]

MV 23MJ 3140 (Japan 1982) - Lionel Hampton " Hampton's Big Four" - rec. 1954

 

 

[optatio]

👍 - as a US reissue on my shelf - unknown release date ...

[Pim]

It was one very busy week at work, study and privately. Time to relax now:

[jazzcorner]

Verve 23MJ 3397 (Japan 1984) - Charlie Ventura " Carnegie Hall Concert" - rec. April 1947

 

[Gheorghe]

9 hours ago, Pim said:

It was one very busy week at work, study and privately. Time to relax now:

Oh, I love that album, and I love Joe Henderson ! 

[mikeweil]

On 10/8/2025 at 1:20 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I have never understood why some producers call a small band like this quintet an "orchestra". It's not an orchestra, it's a quintet.

The term "orchestra" has changed a lot over the centuries, and only when musicology created standard terms in the late 19th century became associated with large ensembles as we are now used to. Originally it could determine any size ensemble. Some still use it that way. Standard sizes and instrumentation are a rather new invention, and before 1900 were defined by practical circumstances rather than musical requirements.

Studying early music history taught me such things. Wikipedia is not of much help here.

[kh1958]

Ted Curson, Tears for Dolphy

Al Di Meola, Elegant Gypsy

[HutchFan]

[JSngry]

12 hours ago, mikeweil said:

The term "orchestra" has changed a lot over the centuries, and only when musicology created standard terms in the late 19th century became associated with large ensembles as we are now used to. Originally it could determine any size ensemble. Some still use it that way. Standard sizes and instrumentation are a rather new invention, and before 1900 were defined by practical circumstances rather than musical requirements.

Studying early music history taught me such things. Wikipedia is not of much help here.

For decades, I played for a wedding band that was always "The Mister X Orchestra". Sometimes it was a five-piece orchestra, sometimes a sixteen-piece orchestra, anything in between, but it was always "orchestra".

But there were never strings! Unless you count a fiddle player for honky-tonk numbers...

[Chuck Nessa]

[Pim]

[optatio]

56 minutes ago, Pim said:

👍👍

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/89899-marion-brown-live-in-bremen-1969/page/2/#comment-1868505

 

[Rabshakeh]

Blind James Campbell And His Nashville Street Band

 

[Pim]

35 minutes ago, optatio said:

👍👍

https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/89899-marion-brown-live-in-bremen-1969/page/2/#comment-1868505

 

Thanks for sharing that. Marion Brown made some great records. 
 

 

[optatio]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

Thanks for sharing that. Marion Brown made some great records. 
 

 

👍👍

On my shelf ...

Edited 25 minutes ago by optatio

[Pim]