Jazz for aficionados

@alexatpos

Its just that ’owning’ music ’on cloud’ is something that I cant grasp, for whatever reason that might be. Its same with the books, I guess, I go to library, but there are many that I just like to have at home. I am not ’old’, I guess (52) but perhaps some of my habits are not in the tune with modern times.

I am older (69) and totally relate... if you ask me, "modern times" are growing progressively more primitive. 

@alexatpos 

In answer to your question, I’ve seen others ask the Jazz questions, but they only seem to get answers, but not the suggestion to check out this thread.

@alexatpos 

listening to The Art Of Intimacy Vol. 1 and it’s wonderful. I don’t know if it’s my bad memory or what, but how have I never heard this album before?

Excellent!

@curiousjim , I must admit that I have very few jazz albums that are not recorded at least 50 or more years ago, but Pelt is great player. In fact, its on these pages I have heard of him first. I do not use streamers and I try to buy every album that I like. Needles to say, the ones I am still looking for to fill my collection are getting harder to find are more expensive, even on cd’s. If I waned to have them on vinyl I would need a small fortune for that. There is one rare Chet Baker album that I am looking right now and its 100eur, for cd. Its just that ’owning’ music ’on cloud’ is something that I cant grasp, for whatever reason that might be. Its same with the books, I guess, I go to library, but there are many that I just like to have at home. I am not ’old’, I guess (52) but perhaps some of my habits are not in the tune with modern times. Anyway...song from an great album that I bought recently...

Sonny Stitt ’Last Sessions’ from 1984

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

Does anybody else thinks that is funny to see so many jazz recommendations when ever some other thread about it shows up and yet, none of those people posts here?

@alexatpos

Thanks.  I saw those and they are on my list. I never heard of him until a few days ago and now I find Pelt has quite a few albums out. Would have played them tonight, but we’re supposed to be getting a bad storm here this evening, so everything is unplugged.

@curiousjim  Try these albums two, by Pelt

https://youtu.be/gpWB4kvFgYI?feature=shared

https://youtu.be/SN_-jwnxRiw?feature=shared

Miki Yananaka

Thanks @acman3 

I will check out more of his catalog.

Pelt is a major talent. Almost every record he puts out is very good and always of interest.

I will listen to the album today if possible. I suggest you look into his back catalogue.

Jeremy Pelt, Woven,  just popped up on Qobuz.  I found this album not really to my taste, but somehow I could not turn it off. 
Has anyone else heard the album yet?

Nice little record. Great Bob Stewart on Tuba!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNvBsAgVZk4&list=PLOIN53xDgv1whz6wEQoFXCq-Hk29Ua1z2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EbalzhGdl8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0-W7LBgmfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfdPQeot-So

@curiousjim

From what I’ve read, the idea that heroin could improve one’s playing was largely based upon a seemingly "mythological" interpretation of the life of Charlie Parker.

By the way, "Celebrating Bird" by Gary Giddins is an excellent biography of Parker.

I can’t imagine being blind and trying to shoot up... maybe Brother Ray had help...

@stuartk 

Yep, I’m a posser. 😇

And sadly the list is huge and some of the names makes me really scratch my head. Ray Charles might be on he top that list for me.

Jaco Pastorius & Toots Thielemans - Sophisticated Lady - YouTube

@curiousjim 

Ah, OK.  No vinyl?  I guess you're not a "serious" audiophile, then!  ;o) 

Yes; my best friend was a very talented artist who eventually OD'd on meth. He'd started out smoking pot, like so many of us in the early 70's for whom experimenting with drugs was just a passing phase.

The list of Jazz musicians affected by drug use is quite long. 

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!