So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[soulpope]

[JSngry]

Found this Wounded Bird issue at a library sale for a very good price. I need a good price for most Ellis things, but have no reservations at all about picking it up when I do. This one is no exception. Ellis was not necessarily "deep", but in no way was he cheap either. Definitely somebody who had a vision and set about making it happen. I think it's a tribute to that vision that his music never really goes away. People keep rediscovering it in pockets here and there.

[duaneiac]

Disc 1 of 2 from this compilation of OOP Muse material put out by 32 Jazz many years ago now.

[jlhoots]

Ben Allison / Steve Cardenas / Ted Nash: Quiet Revolution (CD version)

[HutchFan]

Shirley Scott - Superstition (Cadet, 1973)

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

[erwbol]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Is it as good as the others with the original line-up?

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Truly a beauty!

[jeffcrom]

3 hours ago, duaneiac said:

The Rudi in question being Mr. Blesh and these fun, lively jam sessions were recorded in his apartment.  Great stuff!

I've got the two original 10-inch LPs on Blesh's Circle label. There's also a long Danny Barker solo feature from the January 7 date, called "Danny's Banjo Blues," that was added to the GHB Baby Dodds Trio/Jazz a la Creole LP. It's not on the CD version of that album, and seems to be in limbo now. It should have been included on the CD you spun today, unless it's absolutely full, which I suspect it isn't.

Playing this afternoon: 

Miles Davis Quintet - Duffy's Tavern, Rochester; late February or early March, 1969. The band sometimes referred to as Miles' "Lost Quintet" (because they made no studio recordings) fascinates me. This is the first known recording of the group, and at this point they are much more of a straight-ahead jazz band than they became later - adventurous, but in some ways not as much so as the previous Davis Quintet. There's none of the Bitches Brew material that would shortly be introduced - it's all stuff from Miles' 1950s and 1960s repertoire. "On Green Dolphin Street" could almost be from 1961 or so, except the Chick Corea is playing electric piano and Wayne Shorter soprano sax.

I've had this material for years, but only bothered to correct the speed of the tracks today - everything was about a half-step flat. It's apparently two sets, possibly from different nights. The sound is murky/bootleggy, and the first set is rough listening, because the recordist was apparently sitting pretty close to Jack DeJohnette's drums; sometimes the horns are just lost. The second set is much better balanced, and you can hear everyone, although the sound is still lo-fi.

(A few minutes later): I spoke too soon - I had forgotten that on the version of "No Blues" from the second set, Corea, Holland, and DeJohnette go fully into spacy free-jazz territory for a few minutes.

Edited September 11, 2018 by jeffcrom

[Bluesnik]

I've had it wrapped for 10 or 15 years, but the other day I opened it. And it's very good. With Gerald Wiggnis on organ and Herb Ellis on guitar. Greasy blues!

[duaneiac]

40 minutes ago, jeffcrom said:

I've got the two original 10-inch LPs on Blesh's Circle label. There's also a long Danny Barker solo feature from the January 7 date, called "Danny's Banjo Blues," that was added to the GHB Baby Dodds Trio/Jazz a la Creole LP. It's not on the CD version of that album, and seems to be in limbo now. It should have been included on the CD you spun today, unless it's absolutely full, which I suspect it isn't.
 

I didn't check the total run time of the CD, but I suspect there was probably space enough left to accommodate that stray Danny Barker track.  Perhaps they forgot about its existence?

Now playing:

[jeffcrom]

Miles Davis Quintet - Village Gate, May or June, 1969. The second known recording of the Lost Quintet. Better sound (still a boot, though), and the band is a little more focused. The set includes "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down."

[Peter Friedman]

[bluemonkey]

4 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

 Good stuff.

 

NP:

Cesária Évora: Café Atlantico 

Edited September 11, 2018 by bluemonkey

[bluemonkey]

4 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

 Good stuff.

 

Cesária Évora: Café Atlantico 

[paul secor]

The Swanee Quintet: What About Me?/Anniversary Album (Nashboro/Ace)

[paul secor]

[Joe]

 

[John Tapscott]

[paul secor]

The Jazz Messengers at Café Bohemia Volume 1

One of the great live jazz recordings

[jeffcrom]

   

Miles Davis - The 1956 Pasadena concert issued on disc two of the Legacy Edition of 'Round About Midnight. Gene Norman introduces the tenor player as "Johnny Coltrane."

Miles Davis - Decoy. A controversial album, but I think about two-thirds of it is quite good, with some really creative playing by Miles. I know many folks who dismiss all of Miles' 1980s music, but I think it's simplistic to view it all of a piece. There was much good music early in the decade, but I do think things started to slide after Decoy - although there were some bright spots all the way until the end. Anyone who hates all of Miles' music after his last comeback should read Max Harrison's essay "Listening to Davis Live in London in the 1980s" in A Miles Davis Reader, edited by Bill Kirchner. Harrison, that most intelligent and undoctrinaire of jazz critics, has very positive things to say about Miles' 1982 and 1983 London concerts, but thought the the quality dropped off in 1984, and moreso thereafter. That's almost exactly how I feel about Miles' last decade.

Jacques Gauthe - All Alone With the Rhythm (Jazz Crusade). Finally ready to move away from Miles. I almost got rid of this CD at one point, because the Toronto-based rhythm section is needlessly clunky and archaic. But I've always enjoyed Gauthe, the French-born clarinetist/soprano saxist who studied with Sidney Bechet in Paris and subsequently moved to New Orleans. His playing here is very good, so I can put up with the rhythm section.

 

[Chuck Nessa]

31 minutes ago, paul secor said:

The Jazz Messengers at Café Bohemia Volume 1

One of the great live jazz recordings

Lester Bowie loved these records. He was a huge KD fan.

[paul secor]

6 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Lester Bowie loved these records. He was a huge KD fan.

I didn't know that. Thanks for passing on the information.

[paul secor]

The Comedian Harmonists (Flapper)