So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[EKE BBB]

Art Farmer Septet (Prestige, 1953-54)

[HutchFan]

Disc 3 - The "Lost Quintet" in Stockholm, 1969

[Д.Д.]

23 hours ago, Pim said:

There are also a lot of albums with great European players on them. The ones I'd reccomend best are:

Black Glory, 1971 with Pierre Favre from France

One More Time from 2002 with Jean Francois Jenny Clarke from France

Favre is Swiss. 

It's (great) Jean-Jacques Avenel on "One More Time", not Jenny-Clark. 

[Peter Friedman]

[Rabshakeh]

Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Skiffle Group – New Orleans Joys

[Pim]

15 minutes ago, Д.Д. said:

Favre is Swiss. 

It's (great) Jean-Jacques Avenel on "One More Time", not Jenny-Clark. 

Oh yes my mistake. I always mix those two up. They are both excellent bass players by the way.

[HutchFan]

Now Disc 2 from this set, recorded in Juan-le-Pins:

Sheesh, I LOVE the groove that Jack DeJohnette brings to this music. 

 

[Pim]

2 hours ago, Jim Duckworth said:

Such a great record.

2 hours ago, Dodo said:

Thanks for these! Gonna track down all of these that I haven't heard yet, Blood and Guts looks amazing, I think Mal's live recordings tend to be my favorites from him, so I'm definitely excited to hear this one. Your blog looks like a great resource as well, definitely will mine some recommendations from there; just downloaded that Middelheim Jazz Festival bootleg you have in the five-star tag, looks tremendous. Also, I was glad to see you had the 1981 Dreher, Paris Steve Lacy duo compilation listed in your favorites, that's some of the very best music ever recorded IMO.

Hope it could be of help on your Waldron quest! I am pretty sure you are going to enjoy that Blood and Guts recording. It has the same energy as Number Nineteen.

[Rabshakeh]

Turk Murphy's Jazz Band – Turk Murphy's San Francisco Jazz Vol. 1

Dipping my toe into various forms of classic jazz revival at the moment. More for self-education than anything.

I find Turk Murphy quite difficult to handle, in contrast to Eddie Condon or the New Orleans old timers.

This stuff seems quite slick, hermetically sealed and tonally unlike the Hot 5s/7s or the Bix gang (who I assume they're emulating).

Maybe its more influence from Jellyroll or just an excess in proficiency. Perhaps others have more insight.

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[Peter Friedman]

[HutchFan]

4 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

Excellent. 

 

[EKE BBB]

Miles Davis - Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud (Fontana, 1958)

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[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just finished - Barney Wilen - French Ballads (IDA/Elemental Music).

Now playing: Barney Wilen - Talisman (IDA).

[EKE BBB]

[BillF]

2 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

Miles Davis - Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud (Fontana, 1958)

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[HutchFan]

Incredible. 

[Peter Friedman]

[Gheorghe]

9 hours ago, bresna said:

Just finished - Barney Wilen - French Ballads (IDA/Elemental Music).

Now playing: Barney Wilen - Talisman (IDA).

Some great legs here !

I have not heard much Barney Wilen besides the stuff in the fifties and sixties, when he was something like a boy wonder, playing with the greatests of the greats like Miles, Bud, Blakey, Monk. He could hold his own being around with such fast company, just fantastic.  It seems that I had lost the traces after that. I have heard that he had a lot of personal problems later. 

8 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

This was cult in my early teens. Though it came out maybe in 1969 just before Bitches Brew, many of all those crounds who were crazy about the Miles of the 70´s had that LP or asked who has it. And not knowing what the title means and what language it is, most kids pronounced the album name in a dumb phonetic way. Too sad this is the only studio document of the "lost quintet" (when Herbie and Ron were replaced by Chick and Dave Holland). 

[soulpope]

16 hours ago, Pim said:

Oh yes my mistake. I always mix those two up. They are both excellent bass players by the way.

Definitely ....

[EKE BBB]

[Д.Д.]

Wanted to listen to some Benny Golson and went for this one on Spotify. There is actually not that much Golson here, but a lot of Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw. One of them is extremely annoying going into weeee high register every three seconds. Guess who?

Great drumming by Ben Riley.  

[EKE BBB]

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[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, Д.Д. said:

Wanted to listen to some Benny Golson and went for this one on Spotify. There is actually not that much Golson here, but a lot of Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw. One of them is extremely annoying going into weeee high register every three seconds. Guess who?

Great drumming by Ben Riley.  

Benny Golson played quite often at Jazzland. And I heard him somewhere with Curtis Fuller and a stellar rhythm section. 

My opinion is, he greatest achievments are his compositions, he is one of the great composers of jazz history, but I consider his role as a soloist not as big as his role as a composer. If I listen to his style, there is some of the sound influenced by Don Byas, but somehow I heard solos with a bit of lack of orientation. He also got a bit of Archie Shepp´s sound into his playing. I think I´m not the only one who likes his compositions better than his actual playing. 
 

And he kinda hosted his concerts like announcinc Curtis Fuller this way "look at my saxophone, it has so many keys, and look at his trombone and it has no keys on it...."   uhm....

But after Art Farmer´s death he was very often seen at Jazzland. 

[BillF]

3 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

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