Jazz for aficionados
Mary Jo, that's really deep soul music. I was listening to this today as I drove around doing errands. Sort of in the same vein. Southern Soul, which I suspect is a lot like Croatian Soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=112BIpVq3Zk Happy Valentine's day to you also. Cheers |
Still some of my favorite Chick Corea. Beautiful and deceptively simple compositions: https://youtu.be/X2zpbq8mr7w |
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I was listening Latimore more than several times today and will still. Either you know how to aim deep or we are simply on the same level. Not that important but coincidentally and not that long ago I was in a "role" of a man from this song so I'm experiencing it in more intensive way. This is not the first time that you match with a song that what happens currently in my life. I like the feeling. |
Frogman, thanks for sharing these
Chick Corea compositions I knew nothing about until this morning. All 20 pieces are beautifully
composed and, it seems to me, melodically complex and largely unique. Only
a handful of them seem to be intended for children to enjoy. Most of them seem better suited for adults to reflect on childhood itself. My personal favorite is No. XIII. The artist on the collection you
posted is Leon Bates. I did find this
live performance of Chick playing 12 of the pieces. There is a studio version of him playing all
20 on ECM, released in 2008. This live
performance is from 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPT6CrYzN8M&feature=emb_err_woyt |
Today's Listen: Regina Carter -- RHYTHMS OF THE HEART special guests include, Kenny Barron & Cassandra Wilson Regina is no Stephane, yet, but she is pretty good. Verve Label. 1998 oh, lady, be good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdBITIHl0SM papa was a rolling stone --- yep, that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtcdufMPNCY mojito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IcCJojIE0Y mandingo street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tirkszbuPNo skeeter blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJGjBqrocXY Cheers |
Glad you liked those pieces, Keegiam. Yes, Leon Bates. I agree with your description of them. I have the ECM recording by Chick and surprised it’s not on YouTube. Here’s a favorite by Chick that sometimes goes under the radar: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kVRzddQFvRgfEQvoNfBxbn1xN_RUpCJf8 |
Having purchased Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew in a new Japan release of quadrophonic and stereo on multi hybrid SACD (both new remasters/mixes) in 2018 I had listened to it a few times and it is like listening to a new album. The Japanese seem to have got it right. The new stereo version is way better then any of my older BB recordings and the quad knocks everything else out of the park. Having said that in January 2020 the Japanese re-issued a newly mastered stereo and quadrophonic version of MD’s Live Evil also on multi hybrid SACD and again the sonics are outstanding in both stereo and quad form. So when they sent CD Japan sent me an email announcing the re-issue/re-master in September 2020 of Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters in both quad and stereo I had to pull the trigger. I ordered my copy last week and I will give a review when I get it. For those who enjoy other genres then jazz I also ordered a Japan re-issue/remaster of Santana’s Abraxas which is my favorite Santana album and this too is a multi hybrid SACD in quad and stereo. I cannot wait to hear Abraxas’ opening 2 tracks - Singing Winds Crying Beasts - Black Magic Woman in quadrophonic!! Yes rok I know Bitches Brew and Live Evil should not even be labeled as "Jazz" and I agree. Some call it avant guard I call it good music. I personally don’t put either album in the "noise" category. |
Sine you mentioned SACD, I have a question. Is there any difference in THE SOUND you hear from a SACD DISC being played by a blu-ray player as opposed to that same SACD DISC being played by a dedicated SACD player? The difference in price is about 800 dollars, U.S. Sony UBP X1100ES $500, vs Yamaha CD-S1000 $1300 Thanks Btw, I have two copies of Bitches Brew, because it is an important recording. Cheers |
rok I have an Oppo UBDP 203 which plays all formats and was 599 new. I also bought the UBDP 205 for 1199 and sold it 6 months later unopened box for 3k. I used to have a Denon dedicated SACD player but I sold it when I switched to Oppo so I never did a side by side comparison. My Oppo is fine and I have read about the Sony you have and all the reviews are excellent so I think your fine as well. Although there's always them damn "audiophiles" that pay 500 for a pair of RCA interconnects SMH..... |
Rok my Oppo is the 103 as well. Went bonkers awhile back - no audio from any of the RCA outputs. Oppo has a flat rate service fee of $99 (incl. return shipping). They replaced the "decoder board" (I used to know what stuff was inside audio gear) which was apparently a big enough deal that they gave the unit a new serial number. I was surprised to have trouble with it, but all is well now. Given that my turntable should be ready this week, I plan to be doing a lot of A/B-ing soon. |
Rok my Oppo is the 103 as well. Went bonkers awhile backThat's the reason I am reluctant to put big money into any disc player. The can become paper weights in an instant. Glad to hear there is still support for the Oppo. Mine is 6 years old with no problems so far. My SACD player, Marantz SA8001, is 16 years old. Time to start planning. Every so often I get the error message "can't play", so I think it's days are numbered. Cheers |
All of the "audiophile" guys cannot listen to this video and say nothing. It is what it is and thats all it is (30) Miles Davis - So What - YouTube |
Few years back I bought sacd player, Dcs Puccini with clock and when I listened to native dsd, it was better than anything I've heard on red book . The Dcs has a 'switch' that can 'turn' pcm on dsd, when listening cd's. Since allmost all my music is jazz from '55-'65 and the prouduction is what it is on those recordings, I really could not hear any significant difference between those two mods. So, I thought, I should get music I like on sacd and started to buy sacd editions, mostly mastered by Analogue productions,only to realise (I know, it was obvious, but had to try it myself ) that recordings of 'yesterday' simply cant sound the way the new ones can (perhaps on some other format, but not on digital, at least not on one that 'regular' folks can buy) So, Rok, my advise is to skip sacds if you plan to stick to jazz music. Since you listen to classic music as well, I guess that is where your funds should be be better spend |
Good advice from Alex. Another satisfied Oppo 103 here. In my video surround setup it offers excellent resolution. Compared to the EAD DAC/transport in my audio only setup it sounds a little thin, but excellent in every other way. **** Btw, I have two copies of Bitches Brew, because it is an important recording.**** 😊 Speaking of Chick Corea (and Sinb....I mean, Miles 😉) https://youtu.be/WtORTuLJw7o https://youtu.be/Ec_gYe03cX8 Who knew? : https://youtu.be/6ztq0-2DJfQ |
So, Rok, my advise is to skip sacds if you plan to stick to jazz music. Since you listen to classic music as well, I guess that is where your funds should be be better spend I agree. I do have quite a few classical SACD discs. I don't think Jazz benefits that much from SACD. Most of the small group stuff was well recorded originally, no 'improvement' needed. I have the Marantz CD6007 on order, and I was just thinking about 'bang for the buck' by getting a similarly priced Blu Ray player instead. I think I'll stick with the Marantz. Cheers |
I'm snowed in It's 8 degrees outside My latest Jazz gem has been 'out for delivery' for three days Jazz is once again under noise maker attack on the tube FM radio is out Where could I turn, but to Da Blues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9IIDE_45Pc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Gt46aX9Z4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpC69qIe02E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGIE28q3fEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aIjyX7vwI Cheers |
"Ascenseur pour l'échafaud" Miles Davis |
Thought I’d an share an unexpected experience hearing jazz fusion music for the first time. A girlfriend at the time, wanted to see an upcoming Laura Nyro concert at the Fillmore East. I got tickets for the show, which turned out to be a double bill with Miles Davis as the opening act. This was in June 1970 and we just graduating from high school. At the time I was completely unfamiliar with jazz, and thought it might be interesting to hear a bit of what you’d think of as "cool jazz", before Laura Nyro came on. Well what a shock when Miles band, including a young Chick Corea on piano, and Keith Jarrett on organ among others, came on that night and started playing "Bitches Brew". I had no idea what we were listening to. It was overwhelming, and difficult to make out even the patterns of the music being played, as if it was a loud. cacophony. What a trip. .I can still picture a young Chick Corea playing his keyboards in that maelstrom. Luckily they recorded an album from Miles’ Fillmore East shows. An upon hearing Chick had passed away, I listened to it again, remembering seeing the then young Chick sitting at the keyboards, alongside Miles Davis playing his trumpet. It’s hard to believe that was fifty years ago. RIP Chick, and thank you for the music you created, and the many albums of yours I’m fortunate enough to have. Mike |
**** where does the impetus for instrument development and creation come from? The composers or players. **** The composers. The players would often help in the design of the instruments by offering advise on things like practical key mechanism requirements based on hands experience, but the impetus is mostly the composers. Although, most of the great composers have, at least, rudimentary understanding of the possibilities and limitations of all orchestral instruments; part of formal training. The saxophone is a particularly good example for the answer to an interesting question. It is a relatively new instrument invented in the mid 1800’s by the Belgian instrument maker Adolph Sax. He invented the instrument due to demand from composers for an instrument that would bridge the “gap”, timbre wise, between the woodwinds and the brass instruments in an orchestra. As a solo instrument it added a very interesting and unusual (for the time) color to the tonal palette available to composers. His original vision for the instrument was for an entire family of saxophones spanning a wide range from contra bass to sopranino. In all, he designed upwards of ten different saxophones in different keys (ranges). Most became obsolete relatively soon after and the most popular (practical) remain in use today: (sopranino), soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, (bass). After an initial flurry of interest in this new instrument on the part of composers, interest waned and it wasn’t until its use in American popular music at the turn of the century that its use really took off. Re “Pictures”: ”The Old Castle” from Modest Mussorgky’s “Pictures at an Exibition” is probably the most well known and arguably most beautiful orchestral saxophone solo in the literature. Keep in mind that the piece was composed as a solo piano work by Modest Mussorgsky in the 1870’s and it was subsequently orchestrated a few times by different composers in different versions. It wasn’t until the early 1920’s that Maurice Ravel also orchestrated it in its most well known and arguably best version in which he gave the solo melody in “The Old Castle” to the alto saxophone. The PO/Ormandy recording is of Ravel’s orchestration and it is one of the best recordings of the piece. Speaking of Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra and the saxophone. Another beautiful (my favorite) orchestral saxophone solo can be found in the first movement of Sergei Rachmaninov’s “Symphonic Dances”. Like many well known European composers, Rachmaninov left Russia due to the political upheaval taking place in Europe in the 1940’s. He composed the work after arriving in America and dedicated it to the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ormandy. The recording by that orchestra and Ormandy is hreat and generally considered to be “the one”. The recent Sony Classics reissue is fantastic and with excellent sound. Check it out. |
Nice account, skyscraper. Thanks. Miles opening for Laura Nyro?! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvxWibFr0wiIkBE7JktUnLm4EGfpPVfdT |
Today's Listen: Chick Corea -- SOLO PIANO STANDARDS The tracks were recorded in Japan, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Denmark. Lot of Monk. Recorded 1999. Notes "....the communication of music lives absolutely far above all other human differences, such as differences in language, religion, race, culture, age, sex, politics, etc, etc...." That may be true for Western music traveling the world, but I see no evidence of the reverse being true. monk's dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm7FCfGqAhg brazil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhDrKtdqyag blue monk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97CTP1vjutQ oblivion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_89jqcq_rs 'round midnight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxCL4cuHhHc Cheers |
Speaking of sax...and the players called Sonny, two of them, not mentioned so often Sonny Red, album 'Out of the blue' from '59.-'60. https://youtu.be/dUd9vE_Ug6k https://youtu.be/L-LwKvALyZ4 https://youtu.be/NxQ--y4jMGs Sonny Criss, album 'This is Criss' from 1966. https://youtu.be/ex6ztdnXCRU https://youtu.be/KVDt3fDxkxI https://youtu.be/UgjgEPYxU0s |
Alex, interesting you brought up Sonny Criss. I posted "Crisscraft" a couple weeks ago. In case you missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzeZZtPlip4 |
Miles fronting Laura Nyro? Sounds familiar. I was first blown away by Larry Coryell was when he was fronting for James Taylor. Summer day, lots of lawn area behind the covered amphitheater seating. We were playing Frisbee, and I didn't even catch the intro announcement. But within 5 minutes I was wandering down to the stage because I was stunned by the solo acoustic I was hearing. I already had plenty of "Eleventh House," but I had no idea Coryell was doing this jaw-dropping solo acoustic stuff. I eventually saw him perform around 25 times. May he RIP. He enriched my life immeasurably. |
@rok2id I have the Marantz CD6007 on orderI have owned that exact model . Probably one of my favorite sounding players. It presents with a slightly warm, ,but detailed weighty sound IMO Never analytical or dry sounding. Great bass drive ,with a slightly vivid or forward sound as compared to the older Marantz cd players. It will draw you in ...Congrats on the purchase . Enjoy |
Het rok I hope your ok down there in Texas I have been watching the news and have saw some very unsettling videos. It seems like the "unexpected blizzard" caught the affected communities off guard. I don’t know where your located but a lot of places got hammered. We are expecting 8 inches of snow here in NY today but we are prepared for it. Our HWY departments are fully stocked with plows, sand and salt. And our electrical power facilities are also prepared. |
Pjw, Worst part was no Jazz during blackout! Hasn't been this cold in Dallas area since 1989. Didn't have issues then. Developers building something on every spot of dirt they see, and masses moving from all over the country. We will need to upgrade the power grid and get rid of the people not keeping their equipment prepared. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6LbWWqX-g |
Hey acman did not know you were down that way as well. Stay safe while your listening to the "ice picker" I just love the tone of the Telecaster. (33) 07 I`m Evil Live Stock Roy Buchanan #1975# Vinyl Rypl - YouTube |
I hope your ok down there in Texas I have been watching the news and have saw some very unsettling videos. Thanks for asking. My area is ok, but there are 20,000 other people in this city without power. Still iced in. Texas is the only state with it’s own electrical grid, and it is not under Federal regulation. Usually, the major energy challenge down here, is the hot summers. The power generating and distribution network equipment, is not protected from, nor designed to operate in, this type of cold. The price we pay for cheap energy. Cheers |
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Was in "play something you haven't played in a long time" mode this AM. The Original Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker (2 CDs) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l7C8vvu0KYXtjYTfWlN7Tt4oMLCN6bkzo |
Thanks for asking. My area is ok, but there are 20,000 other people in this city without power. Still iced in.I wanted to ask the same. Have just seen it on the news. Can't believe this is actually happening. I am glad you are fine. So I do not have to cut down some trees and send them over to you to warm you up? |
