Jazz for aficionados

Thanks , 81563 .

I like to hear SHEPP talk , he’s on my wavelength . No doubt his music
IS saying something but I don’t know what it is .

With Sanders it’s all clear . Just my ignorance no doubt . My 2nd favorite Sanders is "Journey To The One " which has a magnificent tune called :"Kazuko" (Peace Child ) , best combo of Jazz and trad Japanese I’ve heard .

Encrypted my "puter " and can’t post it but right there on You Tube .

Talk about luck , went LP fishing yesterday (there are 12 Goodwills within 8 miles of me ) and caught a never even opened LP of Eddie Daniels " Breakthrough " . Oh Happy Day ! One $ .

Does ANYONE know the situation of O-10 ??? I’m not always one here .

Great stuff , they play so well together .But 10 seconds in you get New Jersey in your faceiitis

I'm guessing you're on the festival trail .

Well, Vail  is a great place to bring serious music to the great unwashed .

 Happy for you, (cough, cough) .

 Been a mid-hall guy forever , can't adjust to Rudy , master of his trade though he is . No doubt disciples all over Jersey .

I admire his talent and talent it is . Just can’t break 50+ mid-hall central years .

Vail might well have more A-holes per sq mile than anywhere in the world .

Thanks for Dr.Deep and the Mingus stuff 81563 , and Epherma frogman .

What I enjoy most in jazz , when I’m not with the divine messengers like Sanders , Rubalcaba, Stitt and Elling , is being able to listen to the conversations these guys who have played so long together make easy for a neophyte like myself  to hear .

Jazz is like everything else in the universe , things are better when love is around .

I lucked out and scored a never opened LP of Eddie Daniels  "Breakthrough" .  All the pieces are on You Tube ,no sense in me posting them . The LP is  as  beautiful an  instrumental LP as I have ever heard .

More like a stream that flows clarinet than a human effort.

The You Tube clips are far from the LP sound .

The CD may suck , can't say,  but the LP would be a bargain at $100 .

" Eddie Daniels is the Monster Clarinetist....... Eddies debut album for GRP will be the the benchmark to judge all future recordings ............ "

                                    Quincy Jones

  " Eddie Daniels .....virtuoso blend of ....idioms is quite remarkable ..."

                                          Artie Shaw

       And Artie wasn't known as being free with compliments .

Only living instrumentalist I can think of at this level is the Great German violinist , Julia Fisher .

I'm telling you straight up , the "Breakthrough " LP SOUND is as good as it gets . First time I played it I was so knocked out by the sound had to wait an hour to play side B .

Daniels makes genres irrelevant .

And here's what Defranco had to say about Eddie.

"Breakthrough" is first class and Eddie points the way to a departure from Benny, Artie or myself ....

I'm not sure that it isn't a ADD recording .  Sleeve says Recorded at Olympic Sound Studios , London .

Digitally mixed and edited in The Review Room and Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound  both with Sony gear in NYC .

But I  know next to nothing about the process .

I do know that having the LPO in its prime didn't hurt anything .

I've often thought about 3rd stream , concluded the players were there but not the audience . Might have made it in swing era . Too late now .

I saw James Carter live last night At Twin Cities Jazz Fest .

90 minutes of unaltered power house music . I believe he could play a rock if he could fit a reed into it . Loved his drummer , of course he does the advantage of having the most powerful male surname (drummer) .

81563 , I'm 99% sure it was White , had no hat on but was about his build with close cropped hair .Sure wasn’t long haired Leonard and was younger . I had heard Leonard before but never seen either guy . Both can sure play .

Was few minutes late with parking , if there were intros I didn’t hear them and was way back anyhow .Still was fun .

Thanks , 81563 .

I hope Leonard is OK , to my hears he’s  a Goldy Locks drummer .

Gibbs is not my favorite Organist .

Here’s one of my favorite young artists , this is a spur of the moment piece with one of the Greatest Jazz Masters , never met , zero rehearse , he 79 her 18. A true and genuine treasure

https://youtu.be/Hg9S4Xtbi90



frogman , first I ever remember hearing "Sophisticated
Lady" played as if you really were talking to one . Perfection .

nsp, I get you .

But to me listening to anything anybody goes to the trouble to post  on here is serious listening .


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nsp, if you want to PM me I’d be glad to send you a Audioquest Dragonfly Black DAC, I assume every computer has a USB .

If you don’t have headphones I have a few extra as well .

frogman ,

"Never hits you over the head and lets the listener lean into the playing to hear a beautiful sense of logic and depth " may well be the best sentence you have ever written or ever will write" !

My sentiments exactly .  But I never would of thought of saying " lean into" . Perfect .

Same here 81563, the photography on Cobham’s solo is best I have ever seen !

acman and frogman , thanks for the Vanguard Orchestra clips , has some before , forgot how good they were .

frogman , I'm going all out to find an LP of Teddy's "Its About Time " , the music AND the sound is outstanding !

I'm insinuating nothing . 

I am saying she is among  the most alive persons in  jazz and one of the best guides as to where and how it needs to proceed if jazz is to thrive and perhaps even survive .

I don't really care who is the best player , music is not for music's sake .It exists to uplift  humanity and make this valley of tears easier to bear . Grace is a great musician, she composes, teaches and brings sunshine wherever  she goes . Very few have as much to say in her voice or from her saxophone (to my knowledge she has no axe ). She says I'm alive, you are alive, lets LIVE  !  That's talent of the highest order .

Phil Woods didn't pass his hat to her for nothing .

It is better to show the world you are happy if that is who you are .

Some of us , like myself . are not easy with that . Chris Potter, like me , looks like his wife left , his kid is in the hospital and both of his dogs just died .

Erena. like Chris, is a wonderful player, I love her . But there are horses for courses , in the US Grace will win the Triple Crown and those like me won't even place .

In every study I have seen Jazz and Classical combined  are listened to by 5% of our population . Look on here , a hundred  old  guys are fighting over what the best Heavy Metal band was 40 years ago .and  you and me over  the visage of two great players .

There is a war going on against serious music and people like Grace are our heavy artillery .  If she was not as authentic as she is , she'd be a lowly infantryman with a pop-gun .

Phil Woods , Lee Konitz and Frank Morgan  were all Mentors to Grace .

And all three of them were what is expressed in a German Word .

mensch, " a person of integrity and honor "  Oxford College Dictionary

A historical group for jazz, THE first Afro-American group to ever get a network radio show and that in 1930! The CEO of CBS overruled all
else after hearing one song on the phone ,no less, with the comment "I know genius when I hear IT" .

Surely one of the greatest American groups with the blend only siblings can do.


https://youtu.be/NvJ3eHsslqM Starts slow . in WW II I remember "Till Then" 09 at 30.41 being played

every day and usually several times . I believe there biggest hit was Paper Doll 46.26 .

They sold over 50 million records during hard times in a nation of 120 million .









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frogman , there is no doubt there is no shortage  of great young players. I've been particularly impressed with the kids out of North Texas for some time .

But wild women  stuff like Kelly did in the Berklee post I made is going to get more audience than the brilliant Cherokee Alex Hahn did .

Got to start somewhere .

Strange frogman , I heard  Eddie Harris Saturday on our jazz station , which according to Nielsein (?) has the biggest audience slice in the USA . Was going to find some Harris to post . "Compared to What " is absolutely fabulous ! Like a steam engine coming down the MAIN track at 110 mph .

I have some de-facto family Chinese students at U of MN in my condo complex .They and American kids can get out thousands of people on "smart" phones in a hour . I had them watch Grace at Berklee on my 55" off their I-phone and without telling them to they were at it right after .she finished .I hear she got a big audience at the Twin Cities Jazz Fest last Friday .

I think Jazz could get up to 10% in US , the last Classical concert will be in Tokyo .

I grieve for the swing era not for the music but for the difference 70% of the nation being on that same musical page made in all aspects of life .

There is one more . Ideal combo of technique with something to say . You guys are gonna break my piggy bank .

Today I went  on my monthly pilgrimage to Barnes & Noble to pick up the recent issue of  my Bible , "Gramophone"  .

As of late I have also been buying "Jazz Times " . The June issue is "A Special Saxophone Issue" .

Cover picture is "Chris Potter , The Quiet Virtuoso" , another blurb on cover  is "Seamus Blake, The View From Paris " .

Thought at least 2 guys on here might be interested .

The VERY GREAT Ray Barreto !                  https://youtu.be/fOmxXw2aFbo                        

Thanks .