So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[HutchFan]

46 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Make you want to kneel down ....

Yes.  So full of retrospective, elegiac feelings.  So sad and beautiful.

I can't think of anyone else who sums up their life & art as bravely as Waldron does.

 

 

 

NP:

Stanley Clarke is a badass.

 

[jazzbo]

Tomas Janzon "Experience." Wow this is a great listen. Al "Tootie" Heath makes this special, the tunes are excellent and well-sequenced, and the engineer deserves great kudos, this is a very natural and balanced sounding recording.

[jazzbo]

Tania Maria "Bela Vista" World Pacific cd.

I just love Maria. She has such a grip on her art and so much energy! I love the version of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" . . . .

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

NP:

Stanley Clarke is a badass.

Yep ....

[Peter Friedman]

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[Gheorghe]

8 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Joe Newman was a solid trumpet player, no question !  Nothing that "knocked me out" but good enough to sit down and relax after a busy day and enjoying some swingin´ music.

So that´s the part that´s okay with me. 

But the other thing that really pissed me off was his attitude on stage when he traveled as a single artists and performed with locals. I witnessed this on several occasions. The local rhythm section was doing a good job and swung and they had played with enough visiting US greats (bigger names than Joe Newman), and he stood their and lectured the guys how to play, what to play, what not to play...…. it was so embarassing. 

If it would have been some heavy stuff with difficult forms , tempo changes and tricky chords, okay...…. but you don´t have to be a Nobel Price winner to Play "Bye Bye Blackbird", the local Rhythm section had played that stuff 100s of times and sure knew how to play "Blackbird" without all that lecturing shit from Joe Newman. 

[Big Beat Steve]

I remember you told that story before. Not very pleasant for sure ... (Another chapter in the section of "famous jazz musicians being pricks and pains in the butt in their personal interactions ... makes you wonder what's harder to bear - "Mister Know it All" or someone taking advantage of you and living off your back because he figures "he is entitled to it because is a celebrity" ? - The latter characterization incidentally was one told to me by someone in the know about your Austrian #1 tenor sax player of that period)

I remember something like your experience with Joe Newman that crept up between the lines a long time before in some reivew of a tour involving Joe Newman. Sounded to me like a case of some bitter man who felt he had not received his star dues.

 

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, Big Beat Steve said:

 

 

 

I remember something like your experience with Joe Newman that crept up between the lines a long time before in some reivew of a tour involving Joe Newman. Sounded to me like a case of some bitter man who felt he had not received his star dues.

 

It´s very possible it was that way. 

[JSngry]

Uh....ok.

[Gheorghe]

wow, I didn´t know that Jakie Byard played alto also. 

[Peter Friedman]

Your Soft Eyes - Soul Note

Kenny Drew Trio with Mads Vinding and Ed Thigpen

[B. Goren.]

CD # B of this set:

 

[HutchFan]

NP:

 

 

Earlier today during the morning commute:

 

 

 

[ghost of miles]

[HutchFan]

7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

But the other thing that really pissed me off was his attitude on stage when he traveled as a single artists and performed with locals. I witnessed this on several occasions. The local rhythm section was doing a good job and swung and they had played with enough visiting US greats (bigger names than Joe Newman), and he stood their and lectured the guys how to play, what to play, what not to play...…. it was so embarassing. 

If it would have been some heavy stuff with difficult forms , tempo changes and tricky chords, okay...…. but you don´t have to be a Nobel Price winner to Play "Bye Bye Blackbird", the local Rhythm section had played that stuff 100s of times and sure knew how to play "Blackbird" without all that lecturing shit from Joe Newman. 

That's a bummer.  Sorry to hear that.  Hopefully, he was just having a one-off asshole day. 

And if not... I'm sure quite a few of our musical heroes weren't the nicest people you were ever going to meet.  People like Miles and Stan Getz come to mind immediately.  IIRC, we have a whole thread dedicated to "Jerk Musicians" here on the board.

Still gonna listen to the music they made though -- if it's any good.  

 

Edited February 28, 2020 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

[jazzbo]

I re-listened to Tania Maria's "Bela Vista." Some awesome music there. And that singing!

And now onto more singing, another Brazilian singer, who I also love to listen to: Maucha Adnet & Helio Alves, "Milagre."

[ghost of miles]

Lovely album from Enrico Rava:

[sidewinder]

CD8 - ‘Thinking of Home’

[Referentzhunter]

[duaneiac]

Disc 2 of 2.  When I was a lad, Dinah Shore had a daytime TV chat show and she seemed to me to be utterly square and corny.  There sure ain't nothing square or corny about this --

 

 

That's a little vocal gem, which for me, ranks right up there with the immortal versions of this song recorded by Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaughan.

 

[HutchFan]

Originally released as two LPs: Turn It On! and Black Vibrations
Both albums feature the same killer lineup: Virgil Jones (tp); Melvin Sparks (g); Leon Spencer (org); Idris Muhammad (d)