So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[gmonahan]

Interesting interplay on this one between Terry and Gonsalves

 

[jazzcorner]

2 hours ago, optatio said:

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👍😁

[Kevin Bresnahan]

2 hours ago, gmonahan said:

Interesting interplay on this one between Terry and Gonsalves

 

Was this ever issued under a different title? The discogs listing only shows a German LP from 1961 and 2 CD releases from 1999.

[ghost of miles]

[JSngry]

Has there been a full, legit, collation of all of Coleman's Ronnie Scott's recordings? What's the deal there?

This Pye record seems to have never gotten past it's first release, and in certain circles is the stuff of well-deserved legend for Coleman's inexhaustibly tasty tenor athleticism. 

[Peter Friedman]

[Gheorghe]

14 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

😁👍

Somehow a somewhat strange concert. I have the CD that has both volums of the original LPs, omitting the Oldtime musicians, keeping only the "modernists". 
It´s strange that the Don Byas-Idrees Sulieman-Bud Powell unit played only the eternal "All the Things You Are" and 3 slow ballads. So there is not real range of tempos, those guys are supposed to play more fast tempo stuff and maybe one ballad during a set. And it is strange that they didn´t add Kenny Clarke who was their regular drummer in Paris. The organ player "Lou Bennett" is nice, it seems to be somehow in the vein of Jimmy Smith, but.....I´m not an organ specialist. 

The music of Bill Smith is quite nice, but somehow sounds very unusual to me, And actually I don´t know much about it or the musicians. Someone told me that Bill Smith was Brubeck´s horn player for many years, but Brubeck again is not a musician I´m really common with. 

And it´s really strange that this European concert happened in Koblenz, which is a nice town but you are supposed that some big event like this is in another bigger town like Berlin, Koln, Stuttgart or Essen, main jazz centers in the 60´s in Germany. 
It´s also strange that it was recorded by Impulse, a strictly American label I like very much because it´s involvement with Free Jazz, with late Coltrane etc. 

4 hours ago, JSngry said:

Has there been a full, legit, collation of all of Coleman's Ronnie Scott's recordings? What's the deal there?

This Pye record seems to have never gotten past it's first release, and in certain circles is the stuff of well-deserved legend for Coleman's inexhaustibly tasty tenor athleticism. 

This must have been exactly when I heard George Coleman in Viena. Same personnel. But in Viena they played mostly originals from their latest album "Amsterdam by Dark". 
"Blues inside Out" is a composition and title tune of a contemporanous album by my own mentor Fritz Pauer. So it is possible that Fritz had given the sheet to Coleman here in Viena. It was 44 years ago, but I remember I was with Fritz Pauer at that concert,  and Mr. Coleman announced him and urged him to sit in. Oh boy, those days that formed me. 

[BillF]

[optatio]

12 hours ago, BillF said:

👍

[jazzcorner]

5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Somehow a somewhat strange concert. I have the CD that has both volums of the original LPs, omitting the Oldtime musicians, keeping only the "modernists". 
It´s strange that the Don Byas-Idrees Sulieman-Bud Powell unit played only the eternal "All the Things You Are" and 3 slow ballads. So there is not real range of tempos, those guys are supposed to play more fast tempo stuff and maybe one ballad during a set. And it is strange that they didn´t add Kenny Clarke who was their regular drummer in Paris. The organ player "Lou Bennett" is nice, it seems to be somehow in the vein of Jimmy Smith, but.....I´m not an organ specialist. 

The music of Bill Smith is quite nice, but somehow sounds very unusual to me, And actually I don´t know much about it or the musicians. Someone told me that Bill Smith was Brubeck´s horn player for many years, but Brubeck again is not a musician I´m really common with. 

And it´s really strange that this European concert happened in Koblenz, which is a nice town but you are supposed that some big event like this is in another bigger town like Berlin, Koln, Stuttgart or Essen, main jazz centers in the 60´s in Germany. 
It´s also strange that it was recorded by Impulse, a strictly American label I like very much because it´s involvement with Free Jazz, with late Coltrane etc. 

 

The reason for this concert taking place in Koblenz was a strong Influence of Jazzpromotor "Hans Roßbach as local hero. Later he organized concerts with Bill Evans, Art Blakey, Chet Baker , The Woody Herman big band a.o. in our Jazz club for a smaller audience in the 1970s.

These were the days. Long gone and Mr. Roßbach too. FYI here are 2 fotos. The upper one  might be made at the concert day.

 

 

[sidewinder]

10 hours ago, JSngry said:

Has there been a full, legit, collation of all of Coleman's Ronnie Scott's recordings? What's the deal there?

This Pye record seems to have never gotten past it's first release, and in certain circles is the stuff of well-deserved legend for Coleman's inexhaustibly tasty tenor athleticism. 

My first exposure to George Coleman was at the next Ronnie Scott’s season after this one - either late 79 or early 1980. Ruiz and Higgins we’re back with him but not Drummond. Coleman’s playing was phenomenal.

I wonder if there is a rights issue with those ‘Ronnie Scott’s Record Productions’ releases? It was quite active in the early 80s doing releases by Sarah Vaughan, Louis Bellson etc. who were active at the club at that time.

Edited May 25, 2023 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

CD1 - Nice !

[Peter Friedman]

[Referentzhunter]

[HutchFan]

Now streaming:

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

👍

[EKE BBB]

[HutchFan]

Now this:

1996 CD reissue with nine bonus cuts

 

[Peter Friedman]

[mikeweil]

[mjazzg]

I always think it's a shame that this line-up didn't record more

[BillF]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now this:

 

 

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[jazzbo]

[Peter Friedman]

[Eric]

9 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now streaming:

Oh that’s a good one!!

6 hours ago, mjazzg said:

I always think it's a shame that this line-up didn't record more

Dig that album.  I’m glad all his Columbia stuff is available on CD!