soulpope Posted December 20, 2019 Report Posted December 20, 2019 More Reggie Workman brilliance .... Quote
soulpope Posted December 20, 2019 Report Posted December 20, 2019 And now Richard Davis to the fore .... Quote
jazzbo Posted December 20, 2019 Report Posted December 20, 2019 (edited) WHOA! I just found out about this this week and spun it today. Where has this been. . . no one ever told me about this this. . . it's as good as one would expect! Marcus Roberts "Trio Crescent: Celebrating Coltrane" Edited December 20, 2019 by jazzbo Quote
jlhoots Posted December 21, 2019 Report Posted December 21, 2019 Guillermo Klein - Los Guachos: Cristal Quote
BFrank Posted December 21, 2019 Report Posted December 21, 2019 11 hours ago, Peter Friedman said: Both Bud Powell and Don Byas at the top of their game. Highly recommended! !!! Quote
soulpope Posted December 21, 2019 Report Posted December 21, 2019 Never change a winning topic .... Quote
duaneiac Posted December 21, 2019 Report Posted December 21, 2019 (edited) One of the finest jazz Christmas compilations ever made. So many great musicians and, for the most part, really swinging performances. Here you have Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, Johnny Otis, Victoria Spivey, Fats Waller, Woody Herman, Count Basie with Jimmy "Santy Claus, Santy Claus, Listen to my plea" Rushing. The original LP had 15 tracks and ends with a recording of Jack Teagarden (who sounds like he was perhaps extra full of "good cheer" at this session) singing "The Christmas Song". Just beautiful -- it is a performance which is the very musical depiction of "good will to all". The CD has 23 tracks, dropping some from the original LP (although why they kept Al Bowlly singing "Every Day's a Holiday" baffles me) and adding others. The CD, fittingly enough, begins and ends with Louis Armstrong -- first as member of Clarence Williams' Trio (huh -- that's how it's listed on the LP, but on the CD it is credited as Clarence Williams' Blue Five, which is more credible) performing this compilation's namesake song and finally his 1971 recording of the poem, "The Night Before Christmas", a recording guaranteed to put a great big smile on my face and some tears in my eyes every time I hear it. Edited December 21, 2019 by duaneiac Quote
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