Jazz for aficionados
I don't think I have posted this guy on this thread. Anyway, it's worth a second look / listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCtpnw7tncs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ-UxxftTQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCC1EEmJlo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJmgg3ol1MY Cheers |
Today’s Listen: Lee Morgan -- LEEWAY With what can only be called an all-star group. If you have ever wondered if a tune can survive a Bass and a Drum solo, here’s your answer. Notes: "... refused to go in the Miles Davis - Art Farmer direction of essentially lyrical, understated, economical trumpet playing. Lee can be lyrical, but his musical temperament is basically in the exuberant, joyous, extroverted tradition of Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown." Nat Hentoff For which we can all be thankful. Morgan was 21 at this time, so I guess he was still being introduced to the Jazz audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIIlQ3Uf-aw ever notice how whenever the word ’blues’ is in the title, it be mo better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FE6XcsUxos Cheers note the cigarette in his hand while playing. yep, 21. |
Today's Listen: Lee Morgan -- THE GIGOLO with / Wayne Shorter, Harold Mabern Jr, Bob Cranshaw, Billy Higgins Notes: "This set is a solid addition to the body of Lee Morgan's work--the product of a craftsman who goes beyond craft to discovery." Nat Hentoff The rest is 'nuts and bolts' stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg9uf84hzfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyoRLXBYi00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejxGcL0M46U Cheers |
Today's Listen: Wayne Shorter -- JUJU with/ McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, Elvin Jones The gang is all here except for the Big Man himself. From the Notes: The first eight measures of "house of jade" were written by his wife Irene, an untrained non-musician. The opening, "JuJu" is thus titled because, Wayne recalls, "when I wrote the tune I was thinking of Africa...." Apparently VooDoo is the Haitian version of JuJu. These guys live in the greatest country in the world, courtesy of the Christian God, and all they think of is Africa and voodoo. All tunes written by Shorter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soJvqZHSHxk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lycSfHYEHaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCKOa35Dt1k Cheers |
This round is on me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOKHyGtorXQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elucuKKfda0 Cheers |
****** Voodoo has no Bible, yet it exists in Cuba, the Southern USA, Haiti, Brazil, and other parts of South America; you tell me why and how it exists.***** In a word: Ignorance. Not in the entire Southern USA, just small areas of New Orleans and Miami. And that’s because of immigrants. Baptists rule elsewhere. My older sister, who is very smart, just ask her, said, "what do they expect from a country that has Voodoo as a religion. Speaking of Haiti and it’s endless nightmare. She be right. Cheers Btw, The gate of no return is now a tourist trap. Operated by, and profited from by the very people that sold the slaves in the first place. And they say God has no sense of humor. |
Freddie Hubbard: Always like to hear them play the Flugelhorn. My instrument in the concert band. In many cases a much more appropriate tone than Trumpet. Nice tune. Cheers Julia Fischer, She has to have it written down on paper. They are too different in what and how they play. Maybe the Rok2id of the Flugelhorn???? |
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Excellent!!! Used to love them. In my younger days. I have a few of their CDs, including this one. I think they have, like us all, gotten wiser with age. This is the type of song that turned me off of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_owh_GfS38s This is the type song that made me love them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLO5_LrpFzc Cheers Pops is Pops. In a class by himself. |
Just finished listening to it on my main rig. I have that CD. Are we sure it's a Silver CD? I listened for his piano, and have come to the conclusion that he is not that great of a piano player. Not in the same sense as Oscar Peterson or Gene Harris. He seems to just pound on the piano with both hands simultaneously. Tyner does that a lot also. Pleasant enough, but not the Silver we know and love. He's over shadowed by the group. Unusual Blue Note personnel and cover art. Recorded in 1972. RvG edition remastered in 2002. Cheers |
Today's Listen: Cedar Walton -- COMPOSER with/Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Vincent Herring, Ralph Moore, Victor Lewis Notes: Primarily celebrates Walton as player and composer. He played with Blakey and wrote the tunes, 'Mosaic' and 'Ugetsu', both titles of Blakey albums. Speaks of his dignity, humble demeanor and the respect he commands in the world of Jazz. Sounds like he was a serious musician. All tunes by Cedar Walton. Notes by Christian McBride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1iJuefI2M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw_ff_eHYL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azpbPsipV04 Cheers |
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rok, Buy yourself a notebook .***** Why, whatever for? Cheers Btw, I didn't mean she had to have the score in front of her, she has it in her head. But rest assured it was in front of her once upon a time. And, her job is not to show what the composer thought, but HER sense of what he thought. And everyone has a different sense. Otherwise we would only need one player. And Jazz musicians and Classical players, apples and oranges. You only have to listen to the several attempts by classical players to play Jazz on recordings. And these are Jazz standards. Written down. Wynton being a brilliant exception. Cheers |
It’s (27th man) certainly Jazz, just not this kind. Here, damn, he’s still banging, sort of, but, he and the group are more in tune with the music and each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6wgi4NK0Ls Or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcGmeW3hAQk Cheers |
Today's Listen: Billie Holiday -- SONGS FOR DISTINGUE LOVERS with / Harry "sweets" Edison(t), Ben Webster(ts), Jimmie Rowles(p), Barney Kessel(g), Red Mitchell(b), Larry Bunker, Alvin Stoller(d) Critique her voice all you want, in the end, it don't matter. I wanted to post "Billie Holiday The Ultimate Collection", but it's not on you-tube. However, it just has to be one of the best values in Jazz. 3 CD set, excellent sound, 8 albums on 3 CDs. 11 dollars on amazon. Distingue Lovers will have to do. stars fell on alabama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beylWkWSvaY one for my baby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsXdgVSer-g just one of those things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eug_7LOc8pM moonlight in vermont https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFrJX9zn-xo Cheers |
The African Queen: Excellent. Silver even played a little piano. Blue Note and the artist they recorded were a National treasure. Those were the days. Thank God we have the recordings. 27th Man: I like it. Very nice playing and tunes. It was not typical Silver. It was just different. Things can be good and different. After all, I bought it. Hard Bop Grandpop also. :) Like you, I like all things Silver. Cheers Btw, 'Bonita' is the name of a very small town in Louisiana I always drove through on my way home from Texas to Mississippi. |
Today's Listen: Blue Mitchell -- THE THING TO DO Notes: Mitchell, Cook and Taylor played with Horace Silver for Five years prior to Silver's decision to disband his group in 1964. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FvHCUoF5AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iUw5y9K8cQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVvXB0efwEQ Cheers |
I used to really crank this up when I had my JBLs. Mainly for the percussion, but the harmonica wasn’t bad either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFmCCxMp7BE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNBm5_f7gKc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqm7bsL0AcY Cheers |
I’m still laughing, laughing at myself. I actually thought Zoot and Toots were their real given first names. Don’t I feel like a jerk. hahaahahahahha Just goes to show you that, an artist should not use, or have a ’nickname’, until they have reached a certain level of fame and notoriety. ***** Not nearly as serious sounding as Fathead, Dizzy, Cleanhead, Jug, Lockjaw, ***** Do I detect the well known, and dreaded, Frogman sarcastic wit?? But actually, you are correct. All are perfectly acceptable in the Jazz / Blues tradition. Just like, "Muddy", "wolf man", "B.B." , "Sonny boy" "cannonball" etc...... Every time I see the word 'Zoot', I think of one of the OP's suits. Diz, sounds like a bad ass trumpet player. Toots, not so much. Cheers |
Acman3, Thanks for the JBL clip. Awesome!! I noticed they played real music to demonstrate them. Most high systems on you-tube do not stray far from the solo guitar. They like to hear the strings vibrate. If I had the room, I would find the money. I see they are big into horn loaded designs now. Now, to hear a high end system play Mingus' 'Hog Callin' Blues'. That will be the day. Thanks Cheers |
These two came up on my memory sticks while driving around on this beautiful Texas afternoon. Gotta share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqMY8UAGgg I remember where I bought this one. Music store in Nuremberg, Germany. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7K7WfjP7SM Cheers |
Today’s Listen: Everyone who was Someone -- THE FIRST ESQUIRE CONCERT recorded in 1944. mono. The Notes certainly reflect the time in which they were written. They felt it necessary to point out that Red Norvo was the only white performer. All others being ’people of color’. "The leading role of black Jazz musicians was first pointed out in the USA by the magazine ’Esquire’. It was here from 1944 to 1947 noted Jazz "experts"(mine) were each given the opportunity of naming their favorite performers in each instrumental category" Goes to say that all the all-star winners would then give a concert at the beginning of the year. This is the first one. performed and recorded at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. First released on U.S. Army V-disc shellacs. V for victory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmqCrXB2StI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_lVf2ERv6Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBCjB82k-D8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL3MSKyHM8c There are 13 tracks total. All great. Sound, not the best, but does not matter. Cheers we don't need no stinkin' bebop. |
Today's Listen: Various Artists -- JAZZ IN AN R&B GROOVE a compilation disc, includes Irene Reid, Houston Person, Dakota Staton.... These clips comprise the CD, but as shown, are from the original albums. SACD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRcqjIr6ItA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6wei4_Qys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_9LtYiHMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHeyzOwi24A Joey DeFrancesco on B-3 Happy New Year All !! Cheers |
Today's Listen: Camille Thurman -- INSIDE THE MOMENT Camille Thurman(tenor sax & vocals), Ben Allison(bass), Billy Drummond(drums), Mark Whitfield(guitar) Chesky Recording using MQA technology. Recording takes some getting used to. Her sax sounds very subdued. Sometimes you think they are playing to the technology. Very small, but very enthusiastic audience. Sometimes it seems as if their applause is the focus of the recordings engineers. She is really a very talented singer, but as leader and Tenor Sax player, she needs to be more out front. She probably will as her career goes on. I thought 'Cherokee' was the best tune, also the band's encore number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Uo52AL6DM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQxYr3hb_MU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knzqzHKsudE Cheers On headphones you are constantly looking over your shoulder to see where the applause is coming from. Strange. |
Today's Listen: Grover Washington Jr -- WINELIGHT The last time I heard this was thru my JBL L-150s and Thorens 126MKll / SME. A revolution ago. Best enjoyed LOUD!!! Notes in Japanese. :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPH1IuMtFGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gelwwYuYGn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLv2tua4i-U Cheers |
Today’s Listen: Alberta Hunter, Lucille Hegamin, Victoria Spivey -- SONGS WE TAUGHT YOUR MOTHER Divas --- No Flash, all Substance. Notes: "During world war 2, Miss Hunter made numerous U.S.O. trips to the "CBI" (China-Burma-India) theater of operations, Europe and the south pacific. Once while in France, she was flown off to Frankfurt, Germany, to do a command performance for General Eisenhower, and during the Korean war she toured Korea with Snub Mosely’s 17 piece band. Needless to say, Alberta Hunter deserved the Medal for Meritorious services which she was awarded." Alberta Hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YKEPe4uY8E Lucille Hegamin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FVJ8Q-W7aE Victoria Spivey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqcR6eI4CPk J.C. Higginbotham on Trombone, Willie "The Lion" Smith on piano Cheers |
Schubert, Cantus with one of my favorite groups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqp6hWcZl5Q I have a CD titled "Witness: volume 1 Spirituals and Gospels" It's by a group called -- The ensemble Singers and Chorus of the Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota. Philip Brunelle - Conductor Do you know of them? Can't find them on you-tube. Another great performance from Minnesota. Cheers |
Today's Listen: Mongo Santamaria: -- MONGO SANTAMARIA'S GREATEST HITS Notes:"In mid-'64, Mongo inked a recording contract with Columbia. It was a great deal - artistic freedom, bigger budgets, better promotion - but they had to make certain the material was commercial enough......What happened was that we took the direction of covering what were the happening songs on black radio...." Explains the tracks on this "Jazz" album. I love it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7fTTBlaKrY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7URTbJJ6FgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wNrSx-oZ7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23od7C3rtgk Cheers |
@frogman Finally received this a few days ago. This is my favorite Sonata so far. But, I will have to listen many times. Great recording. Maybe the best recorded violin I have heard on CD. Wow, she is quick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ed01ywc_B0 The Faust / Melnikov is no longer available. Cheers Thurman: You always know how to say things mo’ better. |
Today's Listen: Horace Silver -- THE HARDBOP GRANDPOP with/Claudio Roditi, Michael Brecker, Steve Turre, Ronnie Cuber, Ron Carter, Lewis Nash Notes: "There are two songs on this CD that are meant to be tributes. One of them is dedicated to one of the great masters from the swing era -- Coleman Hawkins (Hawkin). The other one is dedicated to one of the great masters from the be-bop era -- Dexter Gordon (Diggin' On Dexter). The song 'Gratitude' was inspired by my great love for Louis Armstrong." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-OPmxLe8KE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvzSs5WPerw extensive quote from the OP's favorite song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2btaDfyFWts New Group, New Label, New Music. The Aficionado Jury may now retire to deliberate and come to a verdict. Cheers |
Today's Listen: Horace Silver -- HORACE SILVER AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS Notes: ...."It was decided that this date would present Horace as a combo leader for the first time. He responded by getting Kenny Dorham and Art Blakey to join himself and two of the members of his Minton's quartet, Hank Mobley and Doug Watkins. Thus the Messengers were born, or reborn." 'Reborn', refers to a 17 piece band led by Art Blakey that used the name 'Messengers' on occasional gigs, prior to this group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK1TkqfzYnc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LXPZRrb4Tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BukS8_oUY_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5ifjQYItE Cheers |
The Frogman: The last several CD notes I have posted mentioned the phrase "17 piece band". What is the significance of ’17 piece’ bands. Google was not clear, or did not consider that number as special. Is that some sort of ’standard’ for the size of Jazz Big bands? Wynton’s JALC Orchestra has 15, I think. Thanks Cheers |
