"Last Albums" or appearances you can recommend

[Gheorghe]

Bird´s last album from 1954. The "I love Paris" from december 1954 has a moving quality.

As on Bud Powell´s last album. The "Round Midnight" from 1965 also has a moving quality, and there is a rare version of Coltrane´s  "Moment´s Notice" on it. As much as I know the only time Bud recorded a Coltrane composition. 

[mikeweil]

7 hours ago, soulpope said:

This may have been the last Hampton Hawes recording session .... :

Hawes' last session in 1977 for Columbia produced only two tracks that remain unissued.  The last session issued were the John Collins tracks on this album:

That said, the track with Hawes on The Golden Number was recorded a few months after the album pictured above.

This here was Clifford Jordan's last recording:

Edited April 5, 2020 by mikeweil

[HutchFan]

I'm not sure whether this was Waldron's final recording, but it was made in the year that he died.  And without a doubt there is a valedictory aspect to the music, right down to the title.

INCREDIBLE performances.

 

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I'm not sure whether this was Waldron's final recording, but it was made in the year that he died.  And without a doubt there is a valedictory aspect to the music, right down to the title.

INCREDIBLE performances.

Spot on ....

[Dmitry]

Wallace Roney- Blue Dawn-Blue Nights was released in August of 2019, and he passed on just a few days ago.

Its a very strong, adventurous post-bop album, and I enjoy it a lot. Roney’s last young band is a welcome collective, with potential to be very strong on a national scene. I hope they carry on as a group, perhaps with another older authority in  American jazz who’d continue into Mr.Roney’s position.

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Hawes' last session in 1977 for Columbia produced only two tracks that remain unissued.  The last session issued were the John Collins tracks on this album:

That said, the track with Hawes on The Golden Number was recorded a few months after the album pictured above.

 

As were three more tracks - released on "As Long As There`s Music" .... :

Rain Forest                                       Artists House AH 4

As Long As There's Music               -

This Is Called Love                          -

[mikeweil]

You're right - I misread some recording dates.

[soulpope]

21 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

You're right - I misread some recording dates.

No problem .... these Artists House releases and their relating session are rather difficult to follow ....

[Peter Friedman]

[mjzee]

Listening now to Harry "Sweets" Edison's last recording:

Interesting band: Buster Cooper, Curtis Peagler, Art Hillery, Andy Simpkins and Tootie Heath.  Song selections are standards in the Pablo mode (Sophisticated Lady, Just Friends, etc.), but the band is bringing it - they're not just going through the motions.

[Dan Gould]

7 hours ago, mjzee said:

Listening now to Harry "Sweets" Edison's last recording:

Interesting band: Buster Cooper, Curtis Peagler, Art Hillery, Andy Simpkins and Tootie Heath.  Song selections are standards in the Pablo mode (Sophisticated Lady, Just Friends, etc.), but the band is bringing it - they're not just going through the motions.

I will have to pull this one out soon. I recall my reaction as in line with Yanow's - that the band was good but Sweets a bit of a weak link. I always enjoy Peagler though.

Anyway not his last. There was Swing Summit on Candid and Live at the Iridium after that.

[Gheorghe]

I remember Harry Sweets Edison quite well. He usually performed together with Eddie Lockjaw Davis, that´s the Team I saw live on some occasions, really fine ! Though this was in a period when I listened more to more modern , free or modal stuff, it was really nice to spend an evening to here such a good Mainstream jazz, not to figure things out, just to relax and swing.....

[mikeweil]

Moacir Santos' last two albums are top notch, this was the last:

 

 

[mikeweil]

The last album released under Pee Wee Russel's name:

[John L]

I believe that we discussed this one a while back, a beautiful swan song.  I saw Edwards live around this time and it was really incredible. 

 

[Joe]

Exploratory to the end. There are moments here that are almost "out."

[clifford_thornton]

Man, for the longest time I thought the Inner City LPs duplicated what was on the Celebrity/Beacon albums (which I have). OOPS! Need to grab these.

[Niko]

Al Grey / Jimmy Forrest - O.D. (out 'dere)

just playing this one and realized it fit the bill, recorded in July 1980, 8 weeks before Forrest's death... and it's a nice enough organ record... also apparently the last Don Patterson recording to appear during Patterson's lifetime (the John Simon album is from 1986 but apparently only released a decade later) and - if I can trust discogs - the last recorded appearance of drummer Charlie Rice who died in 2018 at the age of 98)

[sidewinder]

58 minutes ago, Niko said:

Al Grey / Jimmy Forrest - O.D. (out 'dere)

just playing this one and realized it fit the bill, recorded in July 1980, 8 weeks before Forrest's death... and it's a nice enough organ record... also apparently the last Don Patterson recording to appear during Patterson's lifetime (the John Simon album is from 1986 but apparently only released a decade later) and - if I can trust discogs - the last recorded appearance of drummer Charlie Rice who died in 2018 at the age of 98)

I have a vinyl of that one - and signed by both Al and Jimmy.

[mjzee]

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2007/07/12/art-pepper-unreleased-art-vol-ii-the-last-concert-may-30-1982/

[Niko]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

I have a vinyl of that one - and signed by both Al and Jimmy.

that is quite remarkable - recorded July 2 and 3 and Jimmy died August 26... so precisely 40 years ago it must have been in the pressing plant...

Edited July 15, 2020 by Niko

[sidewinder]

27 minutes ago, Niko said:

that is quite remarkable - recorded July 2 and 3 and Jimmy died August 26... so precisely 40 years ago it must have been in the pressing plant...

I’ll have to dig it out !

i think the LP was purchased and signed at one of their UK gigs so it must have been literally off the press. I would guess that they were appearing at Nice and made a detour. Or maybe it was signed at the Nice Festival.

Updated - Maybe I got it wrong and it is just signed by Al. The more likely scenario. 

Edited July 15, 2020 by sidewinder

[Niko]

just had another look at my copy which is dedicated to Jimmy's memory - so I think "only Al" really is the more likely scenario...

[mjzee]

This may turn out to be Keith Jarrett's last recording:

[CJ Shearn]

On 4/4/2020 at 11:58 AM, mjzee said:

Listening now to this:

I never heard the original 2-CD set, but I can't imagine anything more wonderful than this - hearing each show complete.  Truly wonderful music.  The liner notes talk about Stan's shortness of breath during the shows, and how the last set needed to be cancelled.

That is a great set! Listening on my Focals is a joy.  I never heard the 2 CD set either.