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For reasons I don't even pretend to understand (aka Random Spotify Recommendation), I've become "interested" in Dizzy's Paris recordings from 1952 & 1953.

I've got a copy of the complete 1953 Salle Pleyel concert on the  way and am looking for an inexpensive copy of the Blue Star recordings.

The Salle Pleyel gig is something I knew from it being parted out on Roulette in the 70s, but hearing it complete is a trip. That group was leaning in to backbeat (implied and literal) music in a way that anticipates the Messengers by a few years! The drummer Al Jones is bringing it! And Wade Legge!

This one above is pretty nice. Material varies, as do arrangements, but Dizzy himself is just dandy, always. There's some good Don Byas as well. They seem to have all been 78s, so things are concise, and that highlights the exquisite expertise on display at every turn.

AFAIK, the early 1950s are generally characterized as "Dizzy lost his big band and formed a night club combo with an emphasis on novelty tunes". Well, maybe so. But in Paris, anyway, it's not THAT simple. I think these records very neatly fill out the Dee Gee sides.

Good stuff!

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Giant Beauty
by أحمد [Ahmed]

compositions by ahmed abdul-malik, re-imagined and arranged by [ahmed]

pat thomas, piano
seymour wright, alto saxophone
joel grip, double bass
antonin gerbal, drums

Very challenging 5 cd set that is really not at all my cup of tea but I will work my way through.

Really well recorded. I’m on the first disc.

 

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13 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

I've got a copy of the complete 1953 Salle Pleyel concert on the  way and am looking for an inexpensive copy of the Blue Star recordings.

The Salle Pleyel gig is something I knew from it being parted out on Roulette in the 70s, but hearing it complete is a trip. That group was leaning in to backbeat (implied and literal) music in a way that anticipates the Messengers by a few years! The drummer Al Jones is bringing it! And Wade Legge!

 

That 1953 concert recording is one of my favorite Dizzy recordings. His trumpet playing is unreal on that one.

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9 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Giant Beauty
by أحمد [Ahmed]

compositions by ahmed abdul-malik, re-imagined and arranged by [ahmed]

pat thomas, piano
seymour wright, alto saxophone
joel grip, double bass
antonin gerbal, drums

Very challenging 5 cd set that is really not at all my cup of tea but I will work my way through.

Really well recorded. I’m on the first disc.

 

Pleased to see it eventually arrived

Prompted me to play the one disc I have yet to hear 'Nights On Saturn'

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Lonnie Smith “Turning Pont” Blue Note Japan 85th Anniversary UHQCD

 

 

Drums – Leo Morris
Guitar – Melvin Sparks
Organ – Lonnie Smith
Tenor Saxophone – Bennie Maupin
Trombone – Julian Priester
Trumpet – Lee Morgan

That is some band! And they came to play.

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