Jazz for aficionados

@curiousjim

Yet another J. Henderson trio: The Standard Joe, with Rufus Reid and Al Foster

@curiousjim 

If you like that, try Henderson's "State of the Tenor-- Live at the Village Vanguard"  trio records. 

Joe Henderson, Charlie Haden, Al Foster - An Evening With.

Excellent!

Jaden Evans - Evans On Evans

https://forum.audiogon.com/users/stuartk

I'm not familiar with "The Magician". I'll definitely check it out.   

https://youtu.be/a3CZHr5uiNM?si=xAA7SbjBuIKa5MdC

@michaelspiellman 

I enjoy Abraham Burton, too.  Are you familiar with the live recording "The Magician" ?

Lou Donaldson - Blues Walk (One night with Blue Note) [HQ]

@frogman Will do! This is the place I come to get ’new’ music. Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by the amount of outstanding and high quality sound of music that’s posted here as I’m always playing catchup to the marvelous music posted here.

@curiousjim You are so right! ++++ on Consummation!

@acman3 You are killing it, with all those glorious posts here. Keep it up!

I enjoy Abraham Burton’s version of Laura. His interpretation is a bit slower and probably a bit heavier on the sax. Very nice sound to my ears.   Laura

Listening to Thad Jones-Mel Lewis,   Consummation and OMG Is it great!

Jihee Heo

Thanks, @tyray ! Don’t be a stranger.

https://youtu.be/Liy9tw03p1I

Ronnie Scott’s Presents: Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio Livestream

I found this, this weekend and wanted to share with you all even if it has already been posted? Please enjoy!

Streamed live on Apr 21, 2018

We are delighted that the good Doctor Lonnie Smith is returning to the club, bringing his supreme self-taught styling’s of psychedelic funk, gospel, jazz and more. With a career that spans half a century, this Master of the Hammond B-3 organ has accumulated a plethora of accolades, recorded over twenty solo albums, and toured with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Etta James, Ron Carter and Lou Donaldson. Expect an eclectic evening of bold musical landscapes brought by one of the strongest musical outfits touring today.

LINE-UP:

Dr. Lonnie Smith - Hammond organ

Jonathan Kreisberg - guitar

Xavier Breaker - drums

Produced By Ronnie Scott’s Production

Directed By Christian Doho

Sound by Gareth Miani-Hunt & Matt Gush

Great stuff, @acman3 , thanks.  My favorite big band and one of my favorite arrangers.  Right back at you:

https://youtu.be/hTFhcL-YrDU?si=Kdvg7iSaWEJs1b4Y

Listening to Miles Davis,  Miles 54, The Prestige Recordings. (2024)

Below is the synopsis from Qobuz.

Focusing on a transformative period in Miles Davis' career, the 2024 anthology Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings rounds up all of the tracks the legendary jazz trumpeter made for the label that year. Certainly, 1954 was an important time for Davis. The rising jazz star had just recovered from heroin addiction, a nagging habit he had struggled with on and off since the late '40s. Clean and fit (he had also started working out in a gym and boxing), he returned to the studio for a handful of sessions that showcased his strong trumpet chops, as well as a renewed creative approach that found him moving further away from bebop and embracing more of the spare lyricism and bluesy swagger that would come to define his work from the late '50s into the '60s. It was a style that took deep inspiration from the work of pianist Ahmad Jamal, whose classical-informed playing was a major catalyst for the cool jazz movement. While still evincing a cool atmosphere and often utilizing his distinctive Harmon mute played close to the microphone, Davis' playing in 1954 was more confident, a style imbued with the rhythmic grooves and bluesy harmonies that prefigured the sleek-edged hard bop and modalism to come. It was also a vibe that would come into full flower on his subsequent albums Cookin', Relaxin', Workin', and Steamin'. Here, he surrounded himself with equally confident and forward-thinking luminaries, including players like pianist Horace Silver, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, bassist Percy Heath, and drummer Kenny Clarke, among others. These are tracks that were first released on such 10" LPs as Miles Davis Quartet, Miles Davis Quintet, Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis All Stars, Vols. 1 & 2. Soon after, they were compiled on more well-known albums, Blue Haze, Walkin', Bags' Groove, and Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants. Included are classic recordings like Davis' original versions of "Four" and "Solar," his iconic version of "Walkin'," and puckishly sparring collaborations with Rollins, including "Oleo" and "Doxy." All of these are considered essential recordings, and there is nothing but superb playing throughout the Prestige box. It also doesn't hurt that we get a nice book of photos and liner notes with writing by Ashley Kahn and Dan Morgenstern, all of which helps put the recordings in context. That said, given that Davis recorded some of the tracks on these albums in 1953, such as side A of Blue Haze, those recordings are not included here. Furthermore, these are just his Prestige sessions and do not include any of his similarly classic 1954 sessions for Blue Note. Still, this was arguably the year Miles Davis came into his own as a bandleader and entered his first truly auteur period, something Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings spotlights nicely.

John Fedchock

@curiousjim 

It’s actually "Booker Little Quartet" on Time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGEWBmAw2-0&list=OLAK5uy_lUIq-30MKjoPVl_UkR9R2cdVdCQiyDw5s&index=2

First of the live Eric Dolphy led Five Spot sessions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsJpa2uxkiw

Fred Hersch

@curiousjim 

re: Booker Little

Check out the 3 live records from the 5 Spot with Eric Dolphy and Mal Waldron and the self-titled record on the Time label.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ran5_bu9qME

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Today has been a Booker Little day. Far Cry, Out Front, Booker Little & Friends have played so far. Qobuz has “The Complete Album Collection” so with repeats, I think I’m good until dinner time.

https://youtu.be/qLPSl_gZHNo?si=BSE-Vgpz5Y2OyE5v

Wow!

Thanks i will go for it...

I discovered 10 albums of Booker Little and 25 of Thad Jones, i will see how to get them...

@mahgister Here is one Thad Jones album that you may like, if you do not have it already. The line up is stellar.

'After Hours' from 1957. with Burell, Waldron, Chambers,Frank Wess and Taylor

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

@mahgister Here is one Thad Jones album that you may like, if you do not have it already. The line up is stellar.

'After Hours' from 1957. with Burell, Waldron, Chambers,Frank Wess and Taylor

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

Jazz @ Lincoln Center Orchestra, Live in Cuba  PRIMO!

Was down visiting my Mother and she sent me home with her collection of CD's 

Great collection of Harry James and I ripped them to my Zenith. She said that she would sit and listen for hours with my Father, he passed 11 years ago and Noel and I are following in this tradition of sorts.  

Harry James and His Orchestra Band Stand Memories. 1938-1948

Ben Folds

Happy Thanksgiving!

I dont know who  i love the most Thad Jones and Mel Lewis or Booker Little...

Astoundingly good...

Happy Thanksgiving!  Thank you all for continuing to enrich my life by deepening my appreciation for Jazz!

My prayers for all and the best Thanksgiving!

Thanks for all suggestions by everybody ...

An evening of Booker Little and Thad Jones is a special evening indeed!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Nice work @mahgister 

Happy Thanksgiving to you all -- 

"Got Butter On It" - well, that's the main question we get here today. 

Jabbo Smith - cornet! 1929

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gFVzEI08bc

Jazz Holiday standards.

It is my best evening music since a long time...

Between Booker Little and Thad Jones...

I did not even know their name really ...

Wow!

I just finish the Booker little album...

And frogman recommend me a trumpet player i never listened to ...

And i am enthralled after one minute...

I am lucky this evening and jazz ignorant ...

2 geniuses the same day....

Thanks frogman

I will chase all albums of Booker little and Thad Jones it seems ...

https://youtu.be/7YyA7NXSpps

Thank you, @msbel.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

https://youtu.be/7YyA7NXSpps

The last time i was flabbergasted was the discovery of Pat Martino here Thanks to frogman ...

Booker Little was not a young player when he died but a mature genius at 22 ...

It is already one of my favorite album... "out front"..

I look for the best english word to describe his speaking singing trumpet : haunting as poetry could be compared to the best prose...

Happy Thanksgiving! All

Wow!

 I listened just a few chords and i will go for it immediately, thanks ...

For a manic jazz collector, this is a maddening task. So much has been listed here it's beyond. Maybe this already has, so apologies in advance. If I had to run out of the house right now - 

Booker Little "Out Front", original Candid LP pressing - I mean, really. If this incredible talent had not died from uremia at 23, who knows what would have happened.

As stated by Miles ...

 

'In his autobiography, Miles Davis made reference to “the great young trumpet player Booker Little,” and wrote of this Manassas cohort, “I wonder what they were doing down there when all them guys came through that one school?”'

I urge you to listen to this track and ask yourself as you are weeping for reasons you don't know, how?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX0p0AzMgAk&list=OLAK5uy_lafLQnhqcHAOtyTNribo2aVrB_rjIYfHM&index=5

This cut was dedicated to Nat Hentoff, (largely responsible for bringing Little to awareness), who broke down when he heard it and never got over the death of Booker. 

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/booker-little-out-front/

For a manic jazz collector, this is a maddening task. So much has been listed here it's beyond. Maybe this already has, so apologies in advance. If I had to run out of the house right now - 

Booker Little "Out Front", original Candid LP pressing - I mean, really. If this incredible talent had not died from uremia at 23, who knows what would have happened.

As stated by Miles ...

'In his autobiography, Miles Davis made reference to “the great young trumpet player Booker Little,” and wrote of this Manassas cohort, “I wonder what they were doing down there when all them guys came through that one school?”'

I urge you to listen to this track and ask yourself as you are weeping for reasons you don't know, how?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX0p0AzMgAk&list=OLAK5uy_lafLQnhqcHAOtyTNribo2aVrB_rjIYfHM&index=5

This cut was dedicated to Nat Hentoff, (largely responsible for bringing Little to awareness), who broke down when he heard it and never got over the death of Booker. 

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/booker-little-out-front/

Philadelphia Jazz

A book review carried in a recent edition of All About Jazz.  Looks to be an interesting read built around great photos.

A happy Thanksgiving to all.

@curiousjim , no need to thank me, glad to post something that you like. His playing is very 'intense', but he has some 'melodic' albums as well. Troubled man, I read, but great player. Here is one album where he plays as sideman, the album was posted here already, but perhaps that fact was not mentioned-

'Maggie's back in town', by Howard Mcghee. Like that album very much

https://youtu.be/PCvgV0Mmj04?feature=shared

While I am writing, here is another obscure pianist and couple of his albums that I like

Dodo Marmarosa 

'Dodo's back'

https://youtu.be/Fi2a4oi3UAU?feature=shared

Gene Ammons and Dodo Marmarosa 

Jug and Dodo

https://youtu.be/B8nl87cm-ls?feature=shared

Thanks @alexatpos for the Phineas Newborn JR.  I definitely enjoy most all of his work.
 

I ran across this recently.

Love the Phineas Newborn Jr stuff. Not played enough!

I went digging thru my cd's, remembered afterwards that I could consult kind people from google.

Anyway, Roy Haynes recorded two more albums with Phineas Newborn jr.(that I have) but with different bass player (John Simmons instead of Paul Chambers)

'Piano portraits'

https://youtu.be/L2FxHFaCmfo?feature=shared

'I love a piano'

https://youtu.be/Wargl9Eb7fM?feature=shared