Tom Kennedy - On His Way
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@simonmoon Wednesdays 8:00-10:00 pm on KBGA (University of Montana radio station) is a show called, “Something Else!” by Bill Kautz. |
By the looks of the responses so far, it seems as if the majority of my collection would be "little known jazz albums". For me, jazz is a growing, living, evolving art form, and I am always seeking out musicians making new music. I don’t look at it like a museum piece. Of course, I love the older stuff (my interest in jazz starts with post bop and modal jazz), but there is so much great stuff from the very recent past, and from all the decades since the 60’s, too. Not to mention, contemporary jazz musicians have chops as good as anyone from the past. Here’s just a very few (I could list many more) contemporary musicians, that are little known, but creating something new: Michael Formenak (bass) - Small Places (2012) Craig Taborn (keyboards) - Daylight Ghosts (2016) Steve Coleman and the Five Elements (sax) - The Sonic Language Of Myth (1999) Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance - Synovial Joints (2015) Nat Birchal (sax) - Sacred Dimension (2011) Mary Halvoron (guitar) - Amarylis (2022) Ingrid Laubrock (sax) - Last Quiet Place (2023) Avishai Cohen (trumpet) - Big Vicious (2020) Alex Machacek (guitar) - Improvision (2007) Rob Mazurek and Exploding Star Orchestra (trumpet) - Lightening Dreamers (2023)
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WOW!! This thread took off :-) Thanks to all who are posting. I’ve got some free time coming up and am going to listen as many of your recommendations, as possible. One of my favorite "little knowns" is the CD, On The Town, Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein. Pete interprets Bernstein tunes from a number of the Maestro’s Broadway shows. The song "Somewhere" is linked-
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Early Chick Corea: "Tones for Joan's Bones" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMNl_bzWtJo&list=OLAK5uy_kB16hZ3Z94tjV7rcAptGIETsfbXIhtriA |
You’re welcome. I’m not a flute-lover, either, mahgister but I do like Tabackin’s playing. ;o) He’s recorded at least one album of all flute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3tAOck1SqI&list=OLAK5uy_lbfCZRneKkpiljYWBJ478KR-sPYmcXTpQ&index=3
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@alexberger reminds a little of Ahmad Jamal slightly |
stuartk, the album you recommended with flute is astonishingly good ... I am tempted to say that his flute mastery exceed sax ... Tabackin live in Japan and was married to a japan musician , flute playing in Japan produce supreme masters from the Zen school , we can hear something of their sound in Tabackin playing phrase ... Thanks for the recommendation ... Especially because i am not a flute lover ...But i like to provoke my innate taste to go on new road...
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You're welcome! I also enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbu7qFxEZ7Y and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9rnMGRhYQI
FYI, those Mosaics are, sadly, all out of print.
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Discogs listings For T. Akioshi /L.Tabackin Big Band releases: https://www.discogs.com/artist/257337-Toshiko-Akiyoshi-Lew-Tabackin-Big-Band
One of L. Tabackin’s excellent releases as a leader w/ Hank Jones, Victor Lewis, Dave Holland: |
Lew Tabackin/Toshiko Akioshi Big Band. All their albums are top jazz band ... This one is one of the best known... I concur ... It is not so much unknown that an album who deserve to be more well known ...But i dont think it is well known... For me well known is common name in jazz ...Miles Davis , Chet baker, etc Brad Meldhau ... Etc Who knows Jan Johansson piano trio albums or solo one , one of the most creative in swedish jazz history ? Who said that there is no great jazz musician in Sweden ? 😁 not me... All his albums deserved to be known out of Sweden ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2D5HlKLh34&t=15s Jazz for me became after the war a universal musical expression worldwide...As classical became ... It is why half of my jazz listening is out of North America where jazz is born ...
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@stuartk @mahgister will take a listen. |
Everyone knows S. Turrentine for his Blues-soaked workouts but my favorite of his is actually more straight ahead, and as such, is perhaps not so well known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HWKdQEnfcI&list=PLE1SK0O9FkE6WskguWMTWEFvrz0UZiJOU |