So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[Jim Duckworth]

59 minutes ago, Justin V said:

I was shooting the breeze with Scott Robinson, an individual player himself, last year and he raved about how no one sounds like Lockjaw.

I was just listening to him on Frank Kimbrough's Monk set.

[Simon8]

[jazzbo]

Stan Getz/Cal Tjader, Fantasy/PureFlection 32 bit Ultra HD cd.

Great sounding version of this material.

[HutchFan]

[jazzbo]

Nat Birchall Quartet “Akhenaton” cd

If you like John Coltrane, you might like Nat Birchall . . . Indeed.

 

 

 

This sounds just right today.

[Dub Modal]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Johnny Griffin claims (and Shelley Carroll confirms) that Jaws corked up some of his keys so they didn't open, which in turn facilitated his self-created fingering system.

I've tried to get a handle on exactly how this worked from videos, but so far haven't seen anything. And yet the story persists.

The only player I've heard who has some kind of a handle on some of it is James Carter.

All I know is that Threadgill's statement rings absolutely true and insightful.

I read this too, didn't remember it came from JG but it stuck with me and I always think about it when I listen to his albums. 

[jazzbo]

Duke Ellington Orchestra, “The Afro-Eurasian Eclypse” OJC cd

 

 

 

A little more pep for my step.

[jazzcorner]

5 hours ago, Balladeer said:

Helmut Brandt Combo - Berlin Calling (Sonorama)

Its nice to find a german Helmut Brandt fan at the 'Organissimo' forum.

H. Brandt was one of the very important german jazz musicians of the Cool Era. His most famous composition is "Berlin Caling"  first issued on an early Bertelsman Vinyl.

My good friend Klaus Scholz (living in Berlin) and me have exchanged a lot of Brandt mateial which was never issued officially but are  recordings from the german radio.

We have also his official recordings which are listed below:

[jazzcorner]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

😁👍 One of the good ones from his Fantasy recordings.

[Dub Modal]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I dig this album 

[Rabshakeh]

58 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

Its nice to find a german Helmut Brandt fan at the 'Organissimo' forum.

H. Brandt was one of the very important german jazz musicians of the Cool Era. His most famous composition is "Berlin Caling"  first issued on an early Bertelsman Vinyl.

My good friend Klaus Scholz (living in Berlin) and me have exchanged a lot of Brandt mateial which was never issued officially but are  recordings from the german radio.

We have also his official recordings which are listed below:

With which of these would you start?

[mjazzg]

2 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Nat Birchall Quartet “Akhenaton” cd

If you like John Coltrane, you might like Nat Birchall . . . Indeed.

 

 

 

This sounds just right today.

Latest release in the post 

[Peter Friedman]

[jazzbo]

Bobby Gordon and Dave McKenna "Clarinet Blue" Arbors cd

It makes sense that I would like Bobby Gordon so much because like I am he's very fond of the music and style of Pee Wee Russell. This is a nice one! McKenna gives just the right support and delivers some nice solos.

Edited February 16, 2023 by jazzbo

[HutchFan]

Hank Jones with George Duvivier & Shelly Manne - Live in Japan (Trio, rec. 1979)

 

[soulpope]

10 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Hank Jones with George Duvivier & Shelly Manne - Live in Japan (Trio, rec. 1979)

Excellent ....

[optatio]

8 hours ago, Balladeer said:

Helmut Brandt Combo - Berlin Calling (Sonorama)

 

2 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Its nice to find a german Helmut Brandt fan at the 'Organissimo' forum.

H. Brandt was one of the very important german jazz musicians of the Cool Era. His most famous composition is "Berlin Caling"  first issued on an early Bertelsman Vinyl.

My good friend Klaus Scholz (living in Berlin) and me have exchanged a lot of Brandt mateial which was never issued officially but are  recordings from the german radio.

We have also his official recordings which are listed below:

👍

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Excellent ....

Yep.  Hank with George Duvivier is pretty much a "can't miss" situation.   

It's also fun to hear how different this trio sounds with Shelly Manne in the drummer's chair compared to Jones' two Black & Blue albums -- Bluesette and Compassion -- with Duvivier and Alan Dawson.  

 

[Brad]

[Larry Kart]

Ralph Lalama's "Momentum"  What a fine "in the moment" player he is. 

[HutchFan]

with John Taylor, Furio Di Castri, and Joe LaBarbera

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Yep.  Hank with George Duvivier is pretty much a "can't miss" situation.   

It's also fun to hear how different this trio sounds with Shelly Manne in the drummer's chair compared to Jones' two Black & Blue albums -- Bluesette and Compassion -- with Duvivier and Alan Dawson.  

Both drummers are a good fit, although i prefer Alan Dawson in this setting ....

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, Jim Duckworth said:

I too am listening to this nice set further encouraged to do so by (much appreciated) Organissimo contributors and by a quote I came across in a Henry Threadgill interview:

Eddie Lockjaw Davis, I have to say, is probably the most original saxophone player I ever heard in my life. I’ve listened to all the different saxophone players, but I’ve never heard anyone play the saxophone like that. It’s the most convoluted style of playing that I ever heard in my life. You can hear a lot of players emulate Charlie Parker, Coltrane, all kinds of players. I’ve never heard anyone that can emulate this man, or anyone who can approach the saxophone in this way. It’s a strange style of playing, and the harmonic language is very different. His way of formulating sound on the instrument is extremely different; I don’t know what that was about. If you listen to Eddie Lockjaw Davis (most people haven’t listened to him, I don’t think), you will see that the notes don’t come out of the saxophone the way they do when other people play the saxophone. It’s very convoluted. It’s the most original thing I ever heard in my life. The most original.

100% agree to that. I had the luck to hear him live on many occasions from the second half of the 70´s into the early 80´s and it was amazing. Before that I already had a chance to hear a bit of his style on the sides he made with Fats Navarro for Savoy and the two tunes on Side B of the "Red Miles Davis Album" as we called it (an italian bootleg of Miles at Birdland 1951). 
I even have one of his Pablo records "Straight Ahead" (with the Tommy Flanagan Trio) signed by him with a dedication for me. 
Recently I got that complet Griff-Jaws CD set . 

AND: His composition "Hey Lock" is much played here in Viena by tenor players. It´s a tricky composition with the chords of the A sections of "Body and Soul" and "Lover" in the Bridge. I love to play it and I´m always glad if a leader on tenor call´s the tune on stage.....

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Both drummers are a good fit, although i prefer Alan Dawson in this setting ....

good choice ! 

[jazzcorner]

12 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

With which of these would you start?

With this one naturally! ;-}}

 

 

Edited February 17, 2023 by jazzcorner

[BillF]

6 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Ralph Lalama's "Momentum"  What a fine "in the moment" player he is. 

👍 Indeed! I remember being blown away when he strode to the front of the Mel Lewis Orchestra for the first solo of the first number in a concert I saw in 1989, not too long before this recording was made.