A blowing session????


I’m a pretty big jazz fan.I truly enjoy Bop and jazz from this era. Question, and perhaps this is not truly accurate/appropriate, is ----how much of this stuff is simply a ’blowin’ session from the artists who are playing the brass instruments, particularly the sax??

IOW, if you have heard one great blowing session, maybe you have heard them all?

 

Listening to ’Trane, Miles, Parlan, Vick,et al, what are your thoughts?

daveyf

Showing 3 responses by jl35

There used to be many jazz album review books, that were good at identifying a blowing session from a well rehearsed album...after a while you could almost tell by looking at the group of sidemen...

I always thought of blowing sessions as some quick easy money, not the artists major work. But some are great and most are good