Any jazz recordings with a recorder?

[neveronfriday]

Hi everyone,

I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any recordings (jazz) which in any way feature the recorder?

I'm trying to get some recommendations for a master of the instrument. We had a talk the other day and wondered if such a thing actually existed.

Any recommendations or hints are welcome.

Thanks & Cheers!

[Guy Berger]

Hi everyone,

I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any recordings (jazz) which in any way feature the recorder?

I'm trying to get some recommendations for a master of the instrument. We had a talk the other day and wondered if such a thing actually existed.

Any recommendations or hints are welcome.

Thanks & Cheers!

Keith Jarrett plays some bass recorder on The Survivor's Suite, and maybe on a few other American Quartet recordings. It's actually a little annoying, IMHO -- nothing against the recorder, but I don't like the new agey vibe it adds to the album.

Guy

[neveronfriday]

Thanks, guy, but I was looking for sth more upbeat. I have that one and, frankly, I have to agree with you.

I'm looking for a real jazz vibe, also with someone who's actually good at playing the instrument.

Cheers!

[Randy Twizzle]

This might be of some interest

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~rodneywaterman/biography.htm

[neveronfriday]

Thanks Randy.

I've heard most of Rodney's stuff (the friend mentioned above has a totally extensive collection of just about all [it seems] recorded recorder music [now, that one sounds strange]. The shakuhachi influence also gives this, albeit very interesting music, an esoteric touch (btw, I have a whole bunch of Denon etc. shakuhachi recordings (Tosha Suiho, for example, who pretty much freely improvises in natural settings, inside of monasteries, etc. ... fascinating stuff)) or pushes it into the world music corner.

I'm looking more along the way of, dare I say it, recorder jazz with a West Coast influence or sth along those lines.

Cheers!

[Late]

I'm looking more along the way of, dare I say it, recorder jazz with a West Coast influence or sth along those lines.

Hmmm ... well, there's that one track with Bud Shank on pennywhistle!

Close, but no cigar, I suppose.

I want to say (but can't remember exactly) that I saw some recordings with recorder on the Tzadik label. Maybe worth checking into?

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Never heard these, never heard of these:

Errol Buddle: Recorder Magic

1982 recording in Australia

looks like the most commercial of all of Buddle's works. Movie themes, etc.

Maybe more in line with the West Coast idea -

Charlie Mariano: Beauties Of 1918 (World Pacific, 1957)

Ade Monsbourgh: Recorder In Ragtime (Swaggie, 1956) and other albums by AM

Jack Marshall: 18th Century Jazz (Capitol, 1958)

Maybe:

Ron McCroby And The Arion Consort: Breezin' The Classics (ProArt, 1985)

Medieval Jazz Quartet Plus Three (Classic Edition, 1963)

Mike

Edited February 14, 2005 by Michael Fitzgerald

[neveronfriday]

Thanks Late and Michael.

I'll follow those leads when I have the time, probably this weekend.

Cheers!

[Brandon Burke]

Roland Kirk plays bass recorder while walking around the zoo in the film Sound?.

Edited February 14, 2005 by Brandon Burke

[mikeweil]

Well, the guy who swings them all up 'gainst the wall on the recorder is Czech Jiří Stivín!

I have two or three LPs of his, each of them has a piece played on a sopranino recorder, some in a ragtime vein, that grooves you to death. Hilarious, absolutely hilarious! If one needs a proof you can swing on that wooden shtick, here 'tis.

Edited February 15, 2005 by mikeweil

[neveronfriday]

Well, the guy who swings them all up 'gainst the wall on the recorder is Czech Jri Stivin!

I have two or three LPs of his, each of them has a piece played on a sopranino recorder, some in a ragtime vein, that grooves you to death. Hilarious, absolutely hilarious! If one needs a proof you can swing on that wooden shtick, here 'tis.

I'd be very interested in getting hold of those tunes.

Any chance?

Cheers!

[mikeweil]

BTW - I could make you a tape of these - can't burn LPs right now. There are some Czech CDs available, but he plays baroque music as well:

But he swings like a madman on sax and flute, too - one of Europe's best woodwind men, IMHO.

[mikeweil]

I'll tape them tomorrow!

[mikeweil]

Jiří Stivín playing a sopranino recorder in 1976 - BTW, these have nine holes, not eight ....

Edited February 15, 2005 by mikeweil

[frank m]

It's a big band recording, but anyway ----The Sauter Finegan Orchestra used a recorder prominently in one of their numbers: "Azure Te" and a lovely recording it is.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Actually most recorders have 10 holes - but the player uses only 8 fingers.

And a thumb.

Mike

Edit: Duh - seven fingers

Edited February 15, 2005 by Michael Fitzgerald

[Chuck Nessa]

Though it does not fit the original question, Roscoe Mitchell plays recorder on the first record I produced in 1966.

[paul secor]

Keith Underwood plays recorders on 'Frederic Hand's Jazzantiqua', a jazz/classical recording.

[JSngry]

There's a cat around here named Robert Sanders who played jazz recorder.