Odd pairing.

[clifford_thornton]

Archie Shepp-Chet Baker shortly before Chet´s death.

Supposedly there are recordings of Chet and Frank Wright from around the same time.

[BeBop]

Didn't see mention of Cecil Taylor with Mary Lou Williams. I'm past the point of seeing an Archie Shepp pairing with ANYONE as odd. Vide: Shepp with Whitney Houston (circa 1982)

[Chuck Nessa]

Thelonious Monk and Dave Brubeck playing together on a late 1960s Columbia record.

Thelonious Monk and Joe Turner playing together, Berlin, 1969

Thanks for the link. I didn't know about this and am a big fan of both.

Thanks again.

[Peter Friedman]

Dave Brubeck & Jimmy Rushing

[rostasi]

Lin Yu Chun And William Shatner "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnM0zXAnR-k

[porcy62]

John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

[rostasi]

Al Green and Lyle Lovett - "Funny How Time Slips Away"

[Chuck Nessa]

That makes all kinds of sense to me.

[rostasi]

Ozzy Osbourne and Miss Piggy – “Born to be Wild”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2r4feujBsY

Bing Crosby and David Bowie – “Little Drummer Boy”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKS0GngztOo

[JSngry]

Al Green and Lyle Lovett - "Funny How Time Slips Away"

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=FhZAoKHWkTI

I dig how the Revvend Al is rockin' the JoeHen glasses!

That makes all kinds of sense to me.

As might this, from the same project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHtUcr5srWw

[BillF]

Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker

Lennie Tristano and Ernie Caceres (Metronome All Stars 1949)

[paul secor]

Thelonious Monk and Dave Brubeck playing together on a late 1960s Columbia record.

Thelonious Monk and Joe Turner playing together, Berlin, 1969

Thanks for the link. I didn't know about this and am a big fan of both.

Thanks again.

Thanks here, also. Very fine and unusual.

[B. Clugston]

Once saw Al Green playing percussion with Sun Ra on David Sanborn's Night Shift. I seem to recall Green was being a bit of a disrespectful ham--shrugging his shoulders a lot and changing percussion instruments.

Speaking of Sanborn, he can sometimes turn up in avant garde settings. There's the Hemphill album with Tim Berne and he's sat in with John Zorn and Berne.

[B. Goren.]

Louis Armstrong & Danny Kaye.

[Hardbopjazz]

I remembered another one. In 2004 I caught a Jazz Mobile show. Clark Terry was the leader. He had Matana Roberts playing alto. After her first solo, Clark said something like, come inside, your playing way too out.

[randyhersom]

Clark Terry and Cecil Taylor, except it worked a whole lot better than Kenny Dorham and Cecil Taylor.

Kevin Mahagony and Randy Travis.

Vince Gill and Diana Krall.

Maybe Strangest of all:

David Murray and John Hicks.

[BillF]

British contribution: Acker Bilk and Stan Tracey.

http://www.stantracey.com/LinerNotes/HornofPlenty.htm

[AllenLowe]

well, I've done a recording with David Murray/Loren Schoenberg/Doc Cheatham (more than a pair, I know)

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, I know - and yet it doesn't seem THAT odd. Allen, you've paired yourself with a pretty diverse range of people.

Murray and Hicks doesn't seem at all odd to me... after all, Hicks worked with Pharoah, Simmons, McBee, lots of heavyweights.

[JohnS]

Teresa Brewer & a whole lot of people:

You missed out

Teresa Brewer and David Murray.

Edited December 14, 2010 by JohnS

[JohnS]

Murray and Hicks doesn't seem at all odd to me... after all, Hicks worked with Pharoah, Simmons, McBee, lots of heavyweights.

That's right Hicks is on more than a dozen Murray led dates and several more with Murray as sideman.

[aparxa]

talking about odd pairing, i've just stumbled into this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdfPI-U6Bhk

[Ted O'Reilly]

I have a Toronto radio aircheck from July 16, 1983 featuring Lee Konitz with Sammy Price on piano. Bassist is Neil Swainson with Terry Clarke on drums. Leader and music director is Jim Galloway on soprano sax.

[BillF]

talking about odd pairing, i've just stumbled into this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdfPI-U6Bhk

Bumsha Swing?

[Free For All]

talking about odd pairing, i've just stumbled into this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdfPI-U6Bhk

Bumsha Swing?

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