Jazz for aficionados

Thanks @stuartk, but I got rid of two turntables and probably 90% of my vinyl maybe fifteen years ago.  I do still have two other turntables, but I haven’t spun a disk in more than a decade.
 

It’s so sad how much talent is lost to hard drugs every day.😢

@curiousjim

Yes. Heroin, I believe....

Don't know if this is of interest to you:

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/leo-parker-rollin-with-leo-blue-note-tone-poet-reissue/

@stuartk 

I really did enjoy the album.  To bad he died so young.

@curiousjim 

Oh yeah -- that's a good one ! 

Bopin’ around the house listening to Rollin’ With Leo, Leo Parker. (1979)

Vijay Iyer

Anita ’O Day doesn’t seem to garner much attention, these days...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUcZ9-ps4js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbwZ_dLgvR0&list=RDEMt59qM7SlZddYO-MLfmF4Hg&start_radio=1&rv=7mzyzCyLyBI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_1d3u0_fE

Cal Tjader

@frogman

That's an admirable attitude!

I tend to be fairly impatient. No doubt I’d have more success finding new music to enjoy were this not the case. ;o)

I get it.  The MJQ’s style is of a particular aesthetic.  A particular sense of swing and emphasis on a compositional style evoking Baroque Classical music.  For me it pushes some of the same buttons as some West Coast Jazz does, Brubeck, Mulligan, for example.  Not for every listener.  But…..I like to try and not be too dismissive of any music when the musicians making it are of the caliber of those of MJQ.  I try and give their effort the benefit of the doubt when I don’t quite get it….yet and give it at least a couple of listens  “There must be something I’m missing”.  Just me.  Tough crowd!  😊

@frogman

Thanks.

Somehow, I’ve never warmed to the MJQ.

@curiousjim

You’re welcome.

More:

Work Time

Tenor Madness

Sonny Rollins Plays for Bird

Tour De Force

@alexatpos 

I listened to Sonny & The Modern Jazz and didn’t get through the first song. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mood or maybe it just sounded like more of the Modern Jazz Quartet, I don’t remember, but I’ll give it another try later.

Thanks.

Oh, sorry.  I have heard the rest of the albums on your list and I listened to Sonny and Hawk,  Frredom Suite, Moving Out and Newk’s Time yesterday.

@stuarti 

I’m listening to Plus 4 now and have never heard The Bridge, so I’ll put it on next.

As always,  Thank you for your suggestions.

As for MJQ, these three albums with guests are not so 'typical'.

with Jimmy Giuffre

https://youtu.be/mpLrgE9aqb0?feature=shared

with Paul Desmond

https://youtu.be/pc4nlJjwHFE?feature=shared

and one also for @curiousjim  with Sonny Rollins

https://youtu.be/VdKf5n8tvnc?feature=shared

And let’s not forget Milt’s recording’s with the Modern Jazz Quartet. Interesting mix of swinging Jazz and Baroque style canons and fugues.

https://youtu.be/7qOTELKw6p0?si=echcV-cbkwvxG97-

@stuartk , no, it’s Marcel Daniels, not credited on the clip’s personnel list.

@alexatpos 

Thanks! Many of these I've never seen, let alone heard.  

@stuartk I guess these are more known albums, just in case you skip one...

Will pass on ones with Coltrane and Wes Montgomery, perhaps should also this one with Coleman Hawkins, as they are probably the most popular...

https://youtu.be/tnTdGw9jDVI?feature=shared

Bags Opus album

https://youtu.be/7XcFCKBNwVY?feature=shared

Plenty, Plenty Soul album

https://youtu.be/FcWMWa9RMYY?feature=shared

Soul Brothers and Soul Meeting albums, with Ray Charles

https://youtu.be/mj8yeMN9bRE?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/LhUxhXfrGWI?feature=shared

Ballads and Blues

https://youtu.be/4h8SDQyz5ww?feature=shared

Bags and Flutes

https://youtu.be/kdNU0kvH-Sc?feature=shared

@curiousjim 

Which three have you just listened to????

Have you heard

"Plus 4" with Clifford Brown? 

"Live at the Village Vanguard"? 

"The Bridge" with Jim Hall ? 

"Saxophone Colossus"?

"Way Out West" ?

@frogman

Thanks. Is that Bags scatting?

Re Milt Jackson, here’s one:

https://youtu.be/CsYm8rUNO4k?si=hOS6VoDBp4MIXQH5

Todays a Sonny Rollins day.

I’ve listened to three albums already and the days still young. 
Any suggestions for the next album?

@alexatpos 

Thanks!  I will explore these. 

Another one I like is "Things Are Getting Better" led by Cannonball Adderly. 

I will skip some of the well known classics of his and post few albums that I like that are perhaps less known.

Milt Jackson Ray Brown Quintet 'Thats the way it is' live at Shelly's Manne Hole.

Recently issued edition contains complete concert on 2 cd's. Before it was possible to buy only first concert, the other was available only on vynil

https://youtu.be/B9M3QAtQVD8?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/2DkeQGBGqDA?feature=shared

'Live at Village Gate'

https://youtu.be/luZVbZ-HxF0?feature=shared

'At the museum of modern art'

https://youtu.be/DPFBIvVbZvM?feature=shared

'Soul Fusion' with Monty Alexander trio

https://youtu.be/ryF1XdInWRM?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/wPW72rds1e4?feature=shared

I've been a fan of both Bobby Hutcherson and Gary Burton for a very long time.  It's high time I gave Milt Jackson his due. 

This was one title recommended in The Penguin Jazz Guide. I like it a lot and have ordered a copy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e5fP8-K8Js&list=OLAK5uy_lri5UMjBdNZ2mIUrTa96ZbpJ869ETKYhs&index=2

I also Like "Bags and Wes":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVCeZmOVhDM&list=OLAK5uy_mWfVOOcuhaRpaBi34AJD4pGjuHlRWhY8E&index=2

What are your favorite Milt Jackson recordings???

Pasquale Grasso

No words needed....Mahalia Jackson, live

https://youtu.be/g6z4eyjr6so?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/ku67XsEguSM?feature=shared

Any Avishai Cohen fans here?  Listening to and enjoying Bright Light.

I’ve been listening to Wes Montgomery this morning.  What a great guitar man!

@alexatpos

Thanks! Yes, I know the Hank Jones album. And the Eddie Costa Trio recordings were released on a Fresh Sound set:

https://www.discogs.com/release/10211284-Eddie-Costa-Trio-Complete-Recordings

Also well worth obtaining, those these are available on some streaming platforms. The "House of Blue Lights" album is a pretty spectacular. The piano is close-miked and Costa’s growly lower-register octave excursions are quite thrilling!

@dogearedaudio , Nice music. Here is another album of Tal Farlow, with Hank Jones

https://youtu.be/q5VLW5gho6A?feature=shared

Check this one, od Eddie Costa, if you have not got it already, previously mentioned here as well

https://youtu.be/_Dygr7RaXsI?feature=shared

If these albums have been mentioned, I’ll delete the post, but a search didn’t turn them up. I was digging through my hard drive last night and came upon two incredible Tal Farlow albums I hadn’t listened to in years. I bought the LPs decades ago, then acquired the CDs when they were briefly issued in the late 90’s. I’ve never been without a copy of these. ;-) Lots of Tal Farlow fans have probably heard them but if you haven’t, they’re just wonderful. Xanadu issued the original LPs and the CDs came out on a spinoff label (CoolNote? I have the CDs somewhere). The original LPs, titled "Fuerst Set" and "Second Set" consisted of eight extended tracks recorded at jazz-fan Ed Fuerst’s apartment in 1956, and they caused a bit of a sensation when they first appeared. The trio is Tal Farlow (g), Eddie Costa (p) and Vinnie Burke (b). Farlow, Costa and Burke made some commercial recordings, but nothing like these utterly swinging jams in which they all stretch out and challenge each other. Tal Farlow needs little introduction, one of the greatest jazz guitarists. Costa was a brilliant pianist and vibraphonist who sadly died in a car accident in 1962. He had a very distinctive sound, recognizable on any recording he made. Burke was an excellent bassist who had a long career as a leader and sideman. The sound is very decent mono for the era. Even Vinnie Burke’s bass is well captured.

Fresh Sound issued a 2-CD set of these sessions called "Tal Farlow - Complete 1956 Private Recordings." Unfortunately, all the CD versions are OOP and I can’t find them on any streaming service. But the LPs can easily be found on eBay, and the Fresh Sound set is available on Discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/release/1520477-Tal-Farlow-Complete-1956-Private-Recordings

If you love jazz guitar, piano and bass, and haven’t heard these truly legendary sessions, by all means grab a copy of the Fresh Sound release.

ETA - The two albums are on YouTube so you can enjoy them there.  

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Otl8MQqJQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yBO6heqQtbQ

@alexatpos

I listened to those selections.

They are certainly emotionally intense, but as I don’t speak the language, I’ve no clue regarding what they’re singing about, so I could be missing what it is that you find difficult to tolerate. And just to be clear, this isn’t an oblique way of asking you to disclose this-- I’m merely acknowledging what could be a significantly limiting factor in my experience of the music. 

@stuartk , perhaps I should have correct myself. There is one 'type' of music which often I find too emotional and overwhelming to listen. I guess there are numerous reasons for it, but that is not something that I plan to discusses here, right now.

Anyway, it is very archaic form of music and I believe its not singed anywhere else except for the some part of Balkans. I will post the same song, but couple interpretations, you may listen it out of curiosity if nothing else, and tell me what are your thoughts about it

https://youtu.be/fBhNMDJ82fs?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/w9gOAMz6-Ik?feature=shared

@frogman

I was watching a "reaction video" yesterday by a guy who looked to be in his early thirties. He was reacting to a video from the Fillmore of the Allmans (original line-up) playing "Whipping Post". Not Jazz, but what did he say, among other things?

"It sounds like they’re each playing a different song".

Looks like we have a running theme, here ...

Lovely Pass/Fitzgerald duet, BTW.

@alexatpos

No matter how ’sad’ the music was, I would first think of it as ’beautiful’.

 

I can relate, to a point. Even though I enjoy sad music, some of it can be too much for me, sometimes, depending upon my mood. 

Love Frisell, acman3. And I get what you mean. He is the kind of player that plays with so much nuance of tone and personal sense of time that make audio systems sound inadequate.

Thanks for sharing, Alex and Stuart .

Times change. Jazz changes. Sometimes for the good. Sometimes not. Sometimes a reboot seems appropriate:

https://youtu.be/IBpaSIkmNPU?si=-yfUFhzsNIgrPzeC

Where is Rok2id anyway?

I used to own a bar once. During winter weekdays when there was less people and if I wanted to go home earlier, I would play some jazz music, usually the people would just left their drinks unfinished and just leave. On other occasions, I would put some Chet Baker concert, both on screen and on speakers, just to see the reaction. Even the regulars, more girls than boys, would come and ask for the change of music. Often, they would say that they simply cant endure so much sorrow, which is interesting. No matter how ’sad’ the music was, I would first think of it as ’beautiful’. No need to say that soon I changed my music menu, for the sake of better profit. But, even in the major cities, jazz bars are rare, or there is a lot other music there, with jazz sometimes included...just crossed my mind, back in a day, there was a jukebox in one popular bar that I went often, because the owner wanted for customers to pay for the music...to my surprise, I found out that jukebox had a Led Zeppelin concert and on it was a ’dazed and confused’ song that lasts some 25min...I would play it and went for a walk, 20 minuts later, the bar would be empty...first they removed the cd and not long after the jukebox was gone too...when I think of it, some jazz would cause the same effect, but with less noise

I used to be a baker. Mornings when it was my turn to mix, I’d have a couple hours to enjoy working alone, before the other guys showed up. One such morning, I was playing Jack DeJohnette’s "Tin Can Alley" when my boss and his girlfriend (not Jazz fans) walked in. First thing she said : "It sounds like they’re all playing different songs". Never made sense to me but then, I wasn’t hearing it through her ears.

Saw Bill Frisell last night. I was reminded how far my system is from live music!

A college age guy next to me told his Dad " Its like their all playing a different song except together". Their communication and joy of playing together was awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6u0Z90t94

@tyray ,

Since I am not the target audience for this album, I gave Black Radio 2 a wide berth.  Although there are some okay bits, I don’t think I will be rushing out to buy a copy. 😎

Listening to Bent Jaedig, The Free Spirit.  It’s a well recorded live album.

@curiousjim,

I finally got around to listening to the album. The album is called, (The) Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio 2 and it has 16 songs with Anthony Hamilton, Brandy, Common, Dwele, Emeli Sandé, Faith Evans, Jill Scott, Lalah Hathaway, Luke James, Lupe Fiasco, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Marsha Ambrosius, Norah Jones, Patrick Stump, as well as Bilal, Eric Roberson, Jazmine Sullivan, Jean Grae and Macy Gray appeared on a deluxe version of the album. That’s a lot of guest artists to put on 1 album and it sounds like it too, in a good way.

I was very impressed with the musicianship. The young folks would consider it as Jazz as I think that is who it is targeted to. This album has a lot of ’meat on the bones’ and takes awhile to listen to with a fresh, up to date take on jazz. It’s definitely a keeper to be put in rotation. Robert Glasper Experiment · Black Radio 2

@curiousjim

There’s something about the way he pounds those keys and you can tell that his bass player and drummer seem to enjoy playing with him as well.

Probably because he so clearly enjoyed what he did. It’s as though he was immersed in a constant process of discovering new delights. With no evident (to me) technical limitations, he was free to instantly play whatever came into his head. Playing music was, for him, just that -- "play". 

@stuartk 

I pretty much like all of his recordings.  There’s something about the way he pounds those keys and you can tell that his bass player and drummer seem to enjoy playing with him as well.

Here is a Spiritual Jazz album that I have on constant rotation:

Philip Cohran & the Artistic Heritage Ensemble - On The Beach (1968)

https://youtu.be/Q_Yfd4me6hs?si=6UzizwsZUrinjh5P

A very unheralded guitar slanger that some may know and most know nothing about.

Stanley Jordan plays Eleanor Rigby

Stanley Jordan Trio - Return Expedition (Live in Montreal 1990)

Les Paul & Stanley Jordan INSANE Jam