Jazz for aficionados
Today's Listen: McCoy Tyner -- EXTENSIONS with / Alice Coltrane(harp), Wayne Shorter(tenor and soprano sax), Gary Bartz(alto sax), Ron Carter(bass), Elvin Jones(drums) Inter notes in Japanese. Back notes talk about McCoy, his music, family and religion(Islam). Still searching for the imaginary connection with Africa. Hence the ridiculous cover photo. You wouldn't know it, but this is a Blue Note release. Even the disc label is solid blue now. No sense of class or tradition. In spite of all that, it is McCoy Tyner! And, he must be heard. Shorter also. The more I hear it, the more I like it. Only 4 tunes. Recorded 1970. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTgls_vR3ME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHKaNCMh3Rc The cover seems to be from a National Geographic Magazine. Cheers |
He is everywhere!!! Los Angeles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqpc6CrKlT8 Brooklyn: (I kid you not) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNw04iBZnR8 South Carolina: (I think) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZMwVj4cVyw Cheers |
If you have ever wondered what perfection is, this is it. Listen to the singer and the band. How they complement each other. Perfect!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsjT2SyWemg Simple but awesome Sax solo. Cheers |
Today’s Listen: Dexter Gordon -- GO with / Sonny Clark, Billy Higgins, Butch Warren (Bass) Notes By Ira Gitler He writes, on ’Cheese Cake’ Dexter soars like a condor over the Andes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkyJQcmVtZQ Here, he writes, "a beautiful Masculine sound this is neither Hawkins nor Young, but Gordon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9-tloP1gZk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3brLNLRBoPM He should and could be reviewing wire for Stereophile. Cheers Btw, a lot of "quoting" going on. |
Excellent Clips from The OP and The Frogman. I hesitate to ask, but was that Mcferrin on the round midnight clip? I'm still trying to figure out what kind of horn that was. That was Wonderful. The first clip said I was not old enough to watch it. I am in the process of writing the lyrics to Mingus' Hog Calling Blues. Stay tuned. Thanks to all for some great music. Cheers |
No mention of Dee Dee and her Horace Silver Interpretations??? All good to listen to, but they are also very forgettable, preventing a person being trapped. The best kind of Jazz lyric, for Jazz instrumental music, great when you hear them, but they don't linger forever. Leaving the way open to even better lyrics in the future. Cheers |
Listening to Big Band Sunday on local FM station. They are playing stuff from a 1944 issue of downbeat magazine. It was reported that a new band led by Billy Eckstine was opening at the Regal in Chicago. Had a singer named Sarah Vaughan. The DJ pointed out that they misspelled both of her names. Cheers |
I think this is Wynton's natural groove. I think he wants to be a blues singer!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATajmT5BD6M Cheers |
Christmas Music -- The Traditional (The kind I like) Listing all the stuff I like would have been an impossible task. So these are my essential albums. Covers all styles of traditional Christmas. A new CD of two Ormandy / Philadelphia Christmas albums on one CD has recently been released. Can't go wrong with that. Robert Shaw -- THE MANY MOODS OF CHRISTMAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_RWJoZgX0 Robert Shaw -- SONGS OF ANGELS: CHRISTMAS HYMNS & CAROLS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z62Ju7ADThY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jMnpoOS9-o Philadelphia Brass Ensemble -- A FESTIVAL OF CAROLS IN BRASS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG_XqM6qBMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mDJjvFeCLk Boston Pops / Feidler -- A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDODwGOmMxw Toronto Symphony and Choir -- MESSIAH with / Andrew Davis, Battle, Quivar, Aler, Ramey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8uPe_wTHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLmmnVdi3l4 Secular "Christmas" music Tomorrow. Cheers |
Lay in a course for Class M Planet.:--) Let's hope that M-Class planet is free of defective carbon-based units. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YcLlURCLIU Cheers |
I never thought of 'after the fact' lyrics to Jazz tunes as being 'permanent'. Just something a singer did to a tune that struck their fancy. It did not affect the original tune in any way thereafter. Now, if a tune is written with lyrics, then they are, and will always be, part of the tune. Cheers "reality is what is, not what ain't" I'm still laughing. Great one. |
Christmas Music for the Devil's Music errrr I mean Jazz Crowd Battle, von Stade, Marsalis, Previn -- A CARNEGIE HALL CHRISTMAS CONCERT -- DVD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XIjGei8zG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2nEPpFgpz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnygAf8mG-k Jazz at Lincoln Center Otchestra -- BIG BAND HOLIDAYS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6mvjnhwrEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67BEFZt_njA This arrangement violates some law of music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnshBIuu97Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBt9DQJOO-4 Oscar Peterson -- CHRISTMAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1MKbmCkEYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oUs_lul9lE Nate King Cole -- THE CHRISTMAS SONG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mP9T8BQ_bQ The Temptations -- SILENT NIGHT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA44kLu_VB0 Cheers Btw, this year's Jazz at Lincoln Center Christmas CD will be released very soon. |
The case is in fact CLOSED. Artists of all stripes are better trained, educated, and have easier access to better materials, instruments, and places of learning than at any time in Human history. When the next Mozart, Bach, Parker, Mingus, Monet, or van Gogh shows up, call me. Cheers or better yet CASE CLOSED |
Well, back then, the radio was all there was in small Southern Towns. It was country music and Broadway / Show-tunes. The Wayward Wind, Canadian Sunset, On the Street where you live etc...... Of course later, R&R came on the scene. But, by then, we had been imprinted. Glad to hear someone other than me knows Stafford. I always wondered why she had a man's name.:) Cheers |
One of the great Jazz LP photo covers. I didn't hear no singing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIgLt7LAZF0 Case Closed. Cheers |
ALL of you people get a little too personal with all this. You say things that can't be taken back, or forgotten. As the General said in 'Good Morning Vietnam', "Hell, it's only radio." Or in our case, Jazz. I ’ve got a flash for you O-10 , without you nothing would change on here , without frogman it would die in a weekWrong and Wrong!! All this would be pointless without both of them. Both of them. Together.Wrong. Cheers Also, we are reading type. Remember that when you post. Body language and facial expressions do not come into it. Things that would be jokes, or harmless banter, sitting around the table having a cold one, can take on different meanings when written. Of course you all know this, so I am preaching to the choir. |
Today's Listen: Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson -- THE GREAT KAI & J.J. If you have this CD/LP, and a microscope, please read the liner notes. They were written by Dick Katz, but could just as well been written by our OP. The first paragraph, which is long, is almost a verbatim account of the OP's position in his long tussle with The Frogman. I couldn't stop laughing. The music. First, a little trombone goes a long way with me, but this is good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8u54iLpZZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tRbqJQpr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1M43TavE1s Cheers |
Questions to The Frogman: Jazz rehearsals. How much of the individual solos played in the performance are played during rehearsals? For Instance, did Kisor blow this solo during rehearsals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnshBIuu97Q Thanks Btw, the rhythm section is awesome on this song. Cheers |
it wasn't until I had a hearing test that the source of the problem was revealed. Ages ago, in the Air Force, my left ear drum was injured in a rapid decompression incident, and as many injuries, they get worse with old age. A lot of posters in the various sites listed hearing loss as a possible cause for the perceived channel imbalance. Always, the left channel was stronger. In my case hearing was eliminated as a cause by the Chesky disc. Some of the tunes actually started with the right channel. On several, the effect was, Trumpet and Trombone on the left, Clarinet and saxophone on the right and Drums,Bass, and banjo dead center. Since then, I have decided some disc, a lot, are biased to the left, some aren't. Classical discs seem to be the best recorded. Although I was sort of disappointed in my recently purchased, 4 seasons / Rachel Podger. It won top awards in all the Magazines, and is a SACD. Today my Mozart Violin Sonatas / Perlman & Barenboim was outstanding. No problems. Like you, I will just have to live with those with the problem. Cheers Btw, a good way, i'm told, to verify hearing, is to sit in the sweet spot with your back to the speakers. Now your right ear is listening to the left channel. Does the dominance shift? If yes, it's your hearing. If not, the system / recording. |
When Nina Simone became more well known in an interview, probably her first main one, she was asked whom her big influence was. She replied without hesitation and matter-of-factly, Johann Sebastian Bach. When people say things like that, whether it's Bach or Bird, it seems to me you should be able to 'hear' that influence in their music. Cheers |
It would be 6-8 weeks till most of us would be gone . This thread has been going on for over seven years. In that time both the OP and The Frogman have been absent on occasion. The Frogman goes on trips with his Orchestra and sometimes he pouts. The OP just pouts. Lately he has pouted more than he has posted. The point is, the thread goes on. It has to. Where else Will Jazz be discussed if not here? In any event, The Jazz Queen and I will be here to the bitter end. Even if it comes to posting Ornette Coleman plays Sun Ra. Cheers and Chill |
Thanks Frogman, excellent and informative as always. Where would this thread be without you. I asked about the rehearsal solo because, as you pointed out Wynton was 'digging' it, and the sax player turned around to look at Kisor as he played, so I just wondered if that was the first time they had heard it, or if they knew what was coming. Great explanation. Old, New, Modern Traditional.......... I think I am lost. I think it would useful if we synchronized eras / calendars / terms. In other words, a few definitions and time frames would be helpful. I suspect 'modern' Jazz started a long long time ago. I have no idea what 'old' and 'new' means as pertains to Jazz. I have always thought 'modern' started with the break with New Orleans and swing. In my opinion, it's all good except for the 'soundscape' crowd, where EVERYTHING that is improvised in thrown into the JAZZ bin. Cheers |
Speaking of Social Justice, how can there be justice when a man has to sell his albums with Basie and Lester? Now that's cruel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvH8Cpnwx_U Cheers |
Bach & Jazz: The Modern Jazz Quartet tried to make this work years ago. They couldn't. I think they called it 'Third Stream'. I remember a friend of mine, from NYC, trying to explain it all to me, in Atlanta. This was back when a new Porsche cost around 7000 dollars. That long ago. Never the Twain shall meet. Cheers |
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Today has been a very strange day, maybe I'll wake up and discover it was just a dream.***** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjB02aaAt9w Cheers |
Today's Listen: Lionel Hampton & Stan Getz -- HAMP AND GETZ Talk about an odd pairing. The notes say the session came about as a result of Hamp and Getz being in the same place at the same time while working on the movie 'The Benny Goodman Story'. Recorded 1 August 1955. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBuVenxA0i8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPFa36raJSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xge6ReATb_E Cheers |
Schubert, Handel, performed by The Frogman’s favorite conductor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNqJ8mED1VE Love the shoes. French ensemble. Horns in tune?? Cheers |
Today’s Listen: Clark Terry -- YES, THE BLUES with ’Cleanhead’ Vinson on alto & vocals. Another Great Trumpet player from St Louis. The notes require an electron microscope, and the booklet is written in Japanese. But the CD title says it all. That ’Cleanhead’ is a funny guy. give the bass player a little love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK6bkcIne10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGjHi3FlZd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_Zc4Uoy-c Cheers |
