Jazz for aficionados

Wow! now i must go looking for Joe Diorio...

Seems another master on par with those i just  named..

Thanks to our own audiogon master frogman...

Wow! Thanks...

another good one...I must look also for him and listen...

Ok please no new guitarist for 2 days here...

It takes times to look for them and listen... Wait for 2 days...

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Gone within a year. RIP. Always makes me cry .

@Kefas

Thanks for posting that Carmen Gomes "Ray" on the previous page. Carmen has such a vocal approach. Sexy and sultry from the heart and soul with class.

This blues session of Carmen’s really grabs you in the gut!!!

CARMEN GOMES SINGS THE BLUES (Full Album) - YouTube

I have been visiting Carmen's website quite a lot the past week!!

Carmen Gomes – 'Souljazz with a Bluesy touch'

mahgister

Wow! Thanks...

another good one...I must look also for him and listen...

Ok please no new guitarist for 2 days here...

It takes times to look for them and listen... Wait for 2 days...

Great guitar selections by all.

Don't forget Wes

Wes Montgomery Live In 65 - YouTube

Kurt Elling is a class act. One of those singers that makes one think “musician” even more so than “singer”. He sounds fantastic on this. Thanks. The performance would have been even better if the orchestra (conductor) played with a bit more style and attitude. Even in ballads the backing orchestral playing needs a little swagger, a little more romance to work with Jazz . This conductor is too stiff for this music. Elling is doing all the heavy lifting; and sounds great in spite of it.

True, frogman , I knew it was a pick up band but I thought I would never get Ellington and Mingus in :" Sound of Love :

I have seen many times that top jazz men’s face showed their respect

for Elling .

I never thought he was anything but a musician , 1st class .

There is a fantastic clip on here  with two Elling  helpers , the Great German WDR  with Bob Mintzer  on baton ,

I don't thing you could ever do better ! Elling gives all he has , he knows he can't  do   better ! I can not to anything  without  a page  that says  PASTE .

Somebody please make the above clip , I was in heaven at  12 minutes , , found out it goes to 1;38

 1; 38  and Elling and the best big band around are in love .

If I could do this clip it would the best I ever made .

Interesting point frog (as usual).  I would think someone with Elling's stature could command a better suited conductor.  Someone with a better sense of jazz and "attitude" as you say.

mahgister, sorry if this cuts your digestion time short.  Here are two more guitarists you should know if not already familiar with them.  Interestingly they both recorded with your countryman Oscar Peterson, not exactly a mellow artist, although he was expressive with ballads.

Joe Pass - 

And Herb Ellis -

Thanks my friend...

I already know them...😁😉😊

i must search the one i dont know... life is short but the hours to listen shorter...

i particularly appreciate Pass ...His fingers virtuosity is idiosyncrasic i dont know any other guitarist who play like he play.... Completely original sound....He is not the more melodious nor the more easy to listen to like Johnny Smith or Grant Green or Herb Ellis though...But he is creative like Martino and original like him in his own way...

I like guitar, tanbur, oud, tar, sitar, rudra veena etc Any string pluck instrument...

mahgister, sorry if this cuts your digestion time short. Here are two more guitarists you should know if not already familiar with them. Interestingly they both recorded with your countryman Oscar Peterson, not exactly a mellow artist, although he was expressive with ballads.

Since we seem to be on the topic anyway: 5 favorite jazz guitarists?

I'd go with:

• Wes Montgomery
• Jim Hall
• Bill Frisell
• Grant Green
• Kenny Burrell (?)

I put the question mark on Burrell because I think my 5th slot is pretty variable.  Those top 4 are clearly my favorites.  The 5th would probably depend on what day you asked me.

I found something with both Elling and PASTE , not near to WDR, but still very

good., He goes to Germany because his Dad is a Lutheran Pastor and jazz

is more popular in Germany . Not a few American jazz men live there .

Funny , :Norwegian Wood is only Beattle Song i really like .

Re; Norwegian Wood , God as my witness , An Iceland Stewardess

, Luxemburg -NYC flight , gave a soldier a a note saying to said soldier

she would like his company in her overnight hotel in NYC .

Wasn’t exactly the Soldiers thing but he went with her

and to a tee it was "Norwegian Wood "

I had a girl in Germany !

Re; Elling , I’d be surprised if he was not an apple off Dad’s Tree.

If you like Joe Pass, check this out.  Playing only with Pederson so very focused.  Try 7:18 for a nice versions of "Round Midnight".

Superb Thelonious Monk prize winner playing ballads on a straight strung grand piano, recorded in a wooden church. The sound is out of this world.

Rob van Bavel Time for Ballads (The Maene Sessions)

Currently listening to Benny Green Source.

Also took delivery today of some new records:

The first 3 and the last are Tone Poets reissues.  First of those I've gotten.

Sade

Chick Corea -  (gone 1 year now).

I’ve been keeping a “Covid” list — things that belong in my collection and that have been released and or first heard by me these last two years:

Charles Lloyd and the Marvels: Tone Poem

Dave Holland et al.: Good Hope

Marcin Wasilewski Trio w Joe Levano: Arctic Riff

Ron Miles: Rainbow Sign

Joel Ross: Who Are You?

Like going to Church after not going for a while:

You and I went to different churches, @frogman .  😇

😊 Maybe….or, maybe just a different place for “church” for you and I. For me, truth, soul, always worth revisiting…like Mingus.

A different church:

@wolf_garcia

So Sax is tawdry, but you like threesomes?? LOL

I didn't see The Modern Jazz Quartet mentioned. The Last Concert is always in my rotation for Jazz. And thanks to everyone for their recommendations.

Because sometimes the jamming  is very good and some "pulse" pilot all behind  the waves ...

Because they are all good trumpeters especially Tom Harrell...

An honest question:

When aficionados post only the name of an artist or album, what is your intent?

Are you simply reminding us of that person or album?

Are you recommending them/it?

Are you looking for discussion about them or it?

I'm simply puzzled why when I see that.

I think that all your questions fit, pryso, depending on the fact of who is reading...:---)

Or maybe it is a simple reminder...like the one we keep on the fridge, such as "buy milk"

Pryso, yes

I personally like to read a "justification" about an album.... Personal one, objective one, or all at the same time, a 2 line justification or a text...

This short or long justification make a recommendation personal like an article about the album....I personally focus on YOUR text to communicate WHY you love something...List without explanation had not much appeal for me...

Why not an explanation for most recommendations save the most evident one? Who need to read a reason to recommend the Beatles or Ella Fitzgerald? Save a personal one...But many known artists must be made more well known...Itr takes sometimes a motivation to listen to someone new in our world...

For example in my 2 line last post,i chose to be short, i spoke about the "pulse" behind all the trumpets summit music album.... If someone listen to this cd he will discover something rare or not so frequent: All the musicians dont play their part one after the other, they play PILOTED by a common pulse that make this album a masterpiece where all players blend whithout losing their personality at all and serve a higher goal....It is really a music piece not a public demonstration only...I listened to it many times ...

Perhaps frogman will help me to understand, confirm or infirm what i say.... He will be welcome because he KNOW how musicians feel playing together and how it translate into their dialoguing parts...

I can be wrong and all this fuss could be just my own making.or particular taste...

Hear is the best Church of the best Christians in America !

Hands down the power of his VOICE is more than any other instrument !

Trying to come to all things of God alone is like a dog chasing his tail .

frog person has made it clear to me why Mingus was the first jazzman

that called to me and still does . If only he had Sonny Stitt in his band !

Took me a year or three to figure this was controlled chaos in F minor .

Brahms would have done it in a few hours ,

Mingus and Stitt. To the best of my knowledge they never recorded together. Hard to believe. Factoid: Stitt recorded more records as a leader than any other Jazz artist. An astounding 106!

acman3, your succinct reply to my question about brevity was appropriate, so I saw the humor in that.

But I realized I should not have included a simple album posting.  Those typically seem to either answer a previous question or offer a recommended listing, at least when a link to the album/performance is included.

So I think now I should have ask why simply state an artist's name?  What do we infer from that?

I have previously referred to our contributor Jafant as “the Jazz crier”.  He was first to simply name an artist.  I always took it as simply an acknowledgment of an artist worth exploring, or possibly an artist who is on his play list at the moment.  Kind of an even more minimalist version of my own Jazz birthdays postings.  Speaking of which:

Happy birthday Wardell Gray!

Yes I know , but if the strongest im -prov genius could have a trio with the slickist 

one , the earth could cry . 

I'm no genius , but I can hear Sonny  make two moves over at the same time

in less than a second , keep doing it and  make the melody of any standard be is

with im-proving all the way ,

And them better with out seeming to do so. Was like the Hudson flooding vs a baby bottle .

I think his genius is not nearly  known as it should be .