Jazz for aficionados

Pjw, I thought I had everything by Ike, but I see that I don't; I don't have "Blue Harlem", and I like it a lot, must have it.

Pjw,


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzJEqi4Te1k&t=44s


Jutta Hipp - Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (80th)
(180g Vinyl LP)
Price $24.99


or do you go in for more costly vinyl?

Like you said Pjw, that is a colossus album. I like the "West Coast" sound it has, even with JC.

This is the first time I ever even saw the album; hope it's readily available in vinyl.

Another rarely mentioned artist is Ike Quebec; he's one of my absolute favorites, and here is my favorite tune by him.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYaSGxDJPw8


Ike had been given a diagnosis of terminal cancer before they made this recording, hence the title; all the musicians had "Heavy Souls" on that day.

Some of Stanley's best work appears on "Midnight Blue" with Kenny Burrell;


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGxsCCuZtr8

For once, this thread is in perfect harmony; that's when everyone is submitting music that I like and wish to add to my collection.

Some might consider that a narrow point of view; as Miles would say "So What".

While the music and the albums are new to me, none of the artists have been new to me, and therein lies the crux. It has been suggested that I should expand my horizons, I believe my horizons are quite wide enough; this ton of records I have that can go elsewhere were acquired in an attempt to "expand my horizons"; no thank you to the horizon expansion.

I'll try to get around to commenting on everything that's been submitted, but I want you to know that anything I don't have will be added to my collection, and that's as high of an endorsement as you can get.

Alex, I was extremely impressed with Herbie Hancock's "Sextant" the first time I heard it in 1972. The fact that I was smoking many exotic blends of Turkish tobacco at that time might have influenced my impression of the music.

If you stare at the native dancers on the cover of this album, they will begin to move. The mystery and fascination for me was how they moved in perfect harmony to that outer galactic music.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2hK6_o5Pdw

I have the ability to go back in time and experience what the music sounded like when I first heard it. That music is so different from the "straight ahead jazz" that we currently listen to that it's understandable why you don't like it.



I liked Eddie Costa's "The House of Blue Lights".

Your second submission didn't work.

The last 3 were good solid straight ahead jazz, keep them coming.

Without the cities with their Bistros, the very high level jazz that was created in the past will not be forthcoming. There will be some kind of music they call jazz, but it will be like fast food as compared to dining at a fine restaurant.

I recall a Bistro that I went to every weekend in the 70's which had a band that utilized a "Kalimba" in place of an electric piano. They played music similar to Herbie Hancock's fusion, but with a twist; they put a little jungle in the music, and I was spell bound every weekend.

Right now I'm trying to find an example of that music, but I doubt if I'll be successful. Here is a demonstration of the instrument.


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sefwUVRLrq8


For those who only like "Straight ahead jazz", the loss of cities and Bistros might not be much of a loss as far as the music, because so much fine straight ahead jazz has been created in the past, but for those of us who lust for something new, that is of the same quality of new sounds that were created in the past, I say just enjoy the past because the future is most bleak.


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fAAGheYTFA


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZW0Gg_42nY


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPc59Y7KHqg

In 59, Grant Green was playing the local clubs in St. Louis.

"Miles Davis"; I have had a long time love and not like so much affair with Mr. Davis's music. We're from the same "neighborhood" but I didn't know this until after he was dead, and I read his autobiography.

I knew his brother "Vernon" for ages, but it's not like Vernon ran up and down the street screaming "I'm Miles Davis's brother". No, Vernon was his own person, and all the other people I was close to who were Miles best friends never ran up and down the street screaming they were Miles best friend.

I was 3 years old when Miles left our neighborhood; consequently, I knew him the same as everyone else, as a jazz fan. The fact that I'm listening to Miles right now, prompted me to write this. "Miles Plus 19" is the title of the album.


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSwyd0E767Y&list=PLWd-jTB7nuz0rUSpXhhmb6DFP2b32etQj



As a matter of fact, the beautiful lady who introduced me to this album lived next door to the big house where Vernon still lived, that was Miles childhood homestead.

Beside liking every cut on this album, that was a beautiful time for me with nothing but wonderful memories.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9eUqMbxWBs&list=PLWd-jTB7nuz0rUSpXhhmb6DFP2b32etQj&index=7

Greyhound, that was a cool groove; it had that laid back Caribbean flavor, as in the Islands. It's on my list.

Mary_jo, your post was a fantastic way to start my day. When one reaches the age of maturity, permanence is chosen over flaming passion.


I enjoyed each one of your links; they speak to the people who can be spoken to, the people who have love for all mankind.

Acman, Gregory Porter is a vocalist who compels you to stop and listen; besides having a fantastic voice, the words to his songs are so relevant.

Pjw, you lucky Dog!


Back then I was ready to Samba with the Cariocas from dusk till dawn, now I just reminisce about my last Tango, maybe I'll pass on Ipanema.

I don't have that last album you submitted, I'll have to get it.

While Jazz is everyone's favorite Genre of music, occasionally, I like to investigate other Genres. Today I'm visiting "Cuba". The Cuban musicians seem to have borrowed from the best of everyone else's music; Spanish, African, and who knows what else. They also know how to add just the right amount of others music to make the Cuban music even better.

I love Cuba, even though I've never been to Cuba; they are poor, but they take care of the poorest, you don't see homeless people laying out on the sidewalks, and from what I've read they don't have a lot of crime.

I'm beginning with a little of what Cuba looks like today;



          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78JruPYsd-4


Now for the music;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42gme-imxo0


I don't want to dominate this, and I hope everyone else joins in with some Cuban music they like.

Frogman, when I spoke of Cuban music, this is what I was talking about "Buena Vista Social Club - Dos Gardenias"; this music takes me to places I've always wanted to go but never been.

Someone asked about the lyrics to "Bantu"; that music is lyric enough, it is the same language that is spoken in Rio, Salvador, (previously known as Bahia) and Dahomey Africa; if you feel the language, you understand it.

"Cubanismo" is red hot; it makes me wish I could dance like the Cubans.



I appreciate all the posts of so much good music that I will have to add to my collection.

Day long journey into night;


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtjuxoYnlaw&list=PL8F804DE6DFE5205C&index=2

Like I said in the beginning, they seem to add just the right amount of everything I like in the Cuban music. I'm not going to add a sub genre to Poncho Sanchez's music; it's just Jazz with a different flavor, and I like it.

Acman, "The John Daversa Quintet" is boss jazz played by Cuban musicians; no need for a "sub genre".

This is what I consider to be "definitive" Cuban music;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2JnyCuAQMg&list=RDQMWdfZkdzg_yY&start_radio=1


     

Frogman, the articles you submitted were very informative. Since before slaves were taken from Africa, they lived in villages as opposed to cities, and each village had their own music and rhythms, I have maintained that some of that music and rhythms were exported to the extent that they no longer exist on the continent of Africa. And that's why according to my ears, better African music comes from Brazil than Africa.

The rhythms from Bahia are endless, we've just skimmed the surface.

Your contributions are much appreciated.

There are so many different African rhythms from Bahia; I'm trying to capture some of them, but the current ones are not the one's I remember from a long time ago.


                https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSambaYogi


                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMTcN9quJfs

I like these rhythms, but I can't find what I'm looking for; the rhythms I'm looking for were very common there when it was "Bahia", and they were truly unique and hypnotic.


Pjw, maybe you can find some of the older music from Bahia that's not as you say "touristy"


You have lived the life I dreamed about.

I find this music and voice so soothing; I exhale, breath deeply, and relax when I hear it. Now I'm floating on a pink cloud taking in the most beautiful music and voice I've ever heard.


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f39EtaTK8NY

Frogman and Pjw, you guys submitted such fantastic posts that I went back and listened again, I also verified that "Son Cubano" is my favorite.

This music came from Africa, but I don’t think you will find it on the continent of Africa; I’m getting closer, I can tell, because none of the comments are in English.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ILM8V_8kY

Mary_jo and Alex, I noticed you guys haven't posted since we changed subjects.

The way this works, if you don't feel comfortable posting on the present subject, you simply post on whatever you're into at the moment. Have no fear, when we deviate from mainstream jazz, it's only a temporary condition, we always return.

Personally, I'm enjoying the deviation, but as I stated, it will run it's course.

I'm almost at the end of my quest. Let me explain how this quest began. In childhood my primary exposure to music outside of the radio was at the movies, and I was attracted to Mexican music in cowboy movies, drums in Tarzan, Voodoo music in horror movies. This was outside of what I would call normal music in the Midwest.

Presently, "jazz" is normal music, but I'm also attracted to "Cubano Son", Haitian Voodoo, and Afro Brazil. To my ears, Afro Caribbean, and Afro Brazil is more African than Africa, although Africa is where it all originated. The slave trade explains how and why this is so. I maintain they transported the "musical soul of Africa" to this hemisphere on those ships, and what I stated above is proof of that.

Another thesis of mine is that we are attracted to music that existed 200 years before our birth via DNA; in other words we are drawn to the music of our ancestors. That would explain my attraction to music in my childhood; 200 year old DNA. Maybe you should listen to your DNA?

Listening to my ancestral spirits has enhanced my enjoyment of music that's hundreds of years old; this music exists now as it did 300 years ago.


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZVJuJwTbf0


I don't associate the music with the religion, I just like the music; maybe it's my ancestors talking to me?


                   

Now when you put jazz and Blakey in the mix we really got it going on;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiU657USPI0

Thanks for the compliment Mary_jo.


I like the music you posted, fortunately I have it.


In regard to music, I like this, that, and the other thing, but since apparently no one else likes "the other thing"; I'll only post this and that.

I was 17 when I bought this album in 59 on Lackland AFB.

    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkz0p2YzUhc

Pjw, I had a few of those silky looking shirts like Sonny Stitt is wearing on that album cover. The album was made in 57 when I bought them for high school. I always notice when jazz musicians have on the some apparel I wore at one time because they got jazzy taste.

Charlie Persip is a drummer that I haven't been paying enough attention to.


He did a long stint (1953-’58) with the bandleader and composer Dizzy Gillespie recording over 12 albums with the master trumpeter. Persip appeared on the “Eternal Triangle” recording, Sonny Side Up (Verve Records) that featured Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt. “I was setting up my drums for the date when Sonny Stitt walked in; we said a few words and then Sonny Rollins walks in and breaks out his horn and I’m like damn, ‘These guys the jazz titans are on this date?’ and Dizzy says, ‘Yeah, man,’” Persip describing this date on YouTube. “Man I was nervous playing with those cats, but once the music started all my nervousness just went away and the music was so great. The music will set you free.”

Charlie Persip just died recently and I didn't even know it. He died August 23, 2020. It's sad to say, but our jazz musicians are leaving us so fast I can't keep up. It was only on my last post that I decided to spotlight his music, which I will continue to do, beginning with his discography;


      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Persip


This is Charlie at Birdland;


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHstQFhohMs


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzP3UjaEsTE


Naturally his largest body of works is as a sideman, and I'm sure I have him on many albums with other people that I'll listen to tonight in his honor.


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8vuI0W9d28

I'm moved to feature a few other Benny Golson tunes;

   
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJeothOwCU



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa-xKZqQ42k


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOES7AZ-d60

Dafnis Prieto melds Cuba and classical jazz perfectly.
 

I'm ready for Cuba and Salvador. I never found what ever I was looking for. Anybody else ready for Cuba and Salvador?

I don't know Budd Johnson, but that sound is reminiscent of music I heard when I was a child and my parents were young. I'm sure they liked and played it.

Frogman, to my ears Lee Morgan's "Whisper Not" was perfection in jazz; no musician played too many notes, and each musician played his part perfectly; that made the tune a work of art. I'm sure they made Benny Golson proud.

Maybe you could point out what the drummer does when his part is "low key", to help make such a wonderful tune.

Acman, some of the very best jazz can not be found on "you tube"; that's because some of the very best jazz musicians did not have a large body of work and are not well known.

Right now I'm enjoying Budd Johnson, but the name doesn't ring a bell and he's not in my collection.

I have a lot of Chico Hamilton that's not on "you tube".


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW9ZvqdLlUE

Has anyone ever compared this musical thread to other musical threads? I won't even respond to my own question.

This is music to my ears;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrEqNTyMF_A

Acman, that Congo drumming sounded like an old Tarzan movie; maybe Tarzan's drumming was authentic.

The beginning Native American was comical, but towards the end it was fantastic with that flute.

In addition to jazz, how about pursuing some Native American? I've gone about as far as I can go with ancient African rhythms, they're getting redundant.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-C7jZfAQ34


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Sxmxuo-4A