Jazz for aficionados
One of the albums I listened to last night was this Leo Parker session recorded on the Blue Note label in 1961. Not one dud on this album. Leo was a superlative baritone sax player who succumbed to heart failure at just 36 years old. Leo P̲a̲r̲k̲e̲r – ̲L̲e̲t ̲M̲e̲ T̲e̲l̲l ̲Y̲o̲u̲ ’B̲o̲u̲t̲ ̲I̲t̲ ̲(̲1̲9̲6̲1̲)̲ - YouTube |
Trombone can be fascinating soloist... I learned it slowly... Steve Turre is my favorite for now...😁 Trombone had something coming from the sax and from the trumpet sound, it sound less sensual than sax can be and less intellectual than trumpet can be , an optimal mix of the two for my ears ...😉😊
This album is top recording and very pleasant to listen to.. Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat (1975, 2007)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqvMGE9xzT8&t=1562s Curtis Fuller : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_gKeyo03M&list=PLZi-mftVo5aFzRaLq7aHESIHJJ-DG8TYU&index=5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BlHRPXPx-4&list=PLZi-mftVo5aFzRaLq7aHESIHJJ-DG8TYU&index=9 Bob Broockmeyer ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhFb2pHD1CM&list=PLZi-mftVo5aFzRaLq7aHESIHJJ-DG8TYU&index=3 J. J. Johnson - J Is for Jazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0ZngiezWSg&list=PLZi-mftVo5aFzRaLq7aHESIHJJ-DG8TYU&index=2
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@curiousjim , @pjw81563 I can’t help but wonder, as was the case with Emily Remler, whether "heart failure" was also a euphemism for drug OD in Leo’s case. |
Plus 1 Other great baritone players that I'm sure you know Ronnie Cuber Pepper Adams 19/11/1957 - Pepper Adams - The Cool Sound of Pepper Adams - YouTube
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Great find! I had never heard of this. For more great baritone players check out Ronnie Cuber, Pepper Adams, Serge Chaloff, and Hamiet Bluiett. Cuber Adams Pepper Adams - Urban Dreams - YouTube Chaloff Body And Soul (Remastered) - YouTube Bluiett |
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What-- no love for Nick Brignola or Gary Smulyan??? I enjoy DiMeola’s acoustic playing. I saw RTF on the Romantic Warrior tour and much preferred the acoustic portion of the show. Wish I could have seen them early on, with Bill Connors.. For Bari, try "On a Different Level" and "Hidden Treasures" For DiMeola, "Rite of Strings" with Clarke and Ponty is terrific. I also favor his trio work with J McLaughlin and P de Lucia. The live ones are better known but the studio release which I believe is simply titled Guitar Trio is also very good. |
Plus 1 Bill Conners. Great guitarist not as recognized as others we have been discussing but just as good (not as good as McLaughlin though!) I do hope Di Meola recovers 100% from his recent heart attack. From what I have read about the type of heart attack he had he is lucky to be alive.
I must say they have not received the love I give the others I mentioned but I have endless hours to listen to them both while I am driving my semi and I will do so. |
Hadn’t heard about his heart attack. Let’s hope this isn’t the end of his playing days. As you probably know, Brignola doesn’t only play Bari. However, on the session with Holland and DeJohnette Bari is the sole horn. This is also the case on "Flight of the Eagle". I agree re: the comparison between Connors and Johnny Mac. I recently picked up Connor's "Return". Have you heard it?
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Can you imagine a band with John McLaughlin and Larry Young? It was called Lifetime and the drummer was Tony Williams, who led the band... no issues of keeping up. Can you imagine a band with John McLaughlin and Jaco? It was called Trio of Doom and the drummer was, yes, Tony Williams...again no issues with keeping up! Can you imagine a band with Pharoah Sanders and Sonny Sharrock?! The drummer was none other than Elvin Jones... you know he didn't have any problems keeping up! The same could be said of The Mahavishnu Orchestra... Billy Cobham had things well under control. One of the highlights for me of seeing the Dave Holland Quintet was when everyone was soloing at once and I couldn't tell where the "one" was. I was always amazed by Billy Kilson -- no matter how rhythmically complex things got, he remained the calm at the center of the storm. Of course, Elvin was renowned for the same capacity. |
OK. Sophistication was a poor choice of words on my part as it’s hard to pin down. Let me try to say it another way. I enjoy cooked garlic, in moderate-to-generous amounts, as an enhancement to various dishes. I even like it raw, in tzatziki, for example. However, do not enjoy it raw, on its own. A platterful of raw garlic has little appeal, let alone an entire banquet table. All I hear from Brozman is an unending stream of raw garlic. BTW, the authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz adored this stuff. They admitted they weren’t sure it was Jazz; they called it "European Improvised Music" and left out Jazz artists to ensure there would be sufficient space for it and no doubt, to also ensure it would be known far and wide that they were among the hippest of the hip. I don’t believe in "formless art". Without form, there’s no content and chaos is no substitute for content. Others will, of course, disagree. |
Sorry @acman3, that is a definite no for me as well. FWIW, my wife walked by and said WTF? So that’s another no. While I am the music lover in the house, neither one of us likes the disjointed cacophony that others do. |
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I have no idea what to make of your latest links... or is this, perhaps, the idea? Are you playing the role of "Dylan" with me as "Mr. Jones" ??? I prefer "Blue Serge" but it’s my nature to compare and categorize. . . If you enjoy both, more power to you! How is your DiMeola exploration progressing? |
I just recently bought a copy of the new release, "Lightning Dreams" by Rob Mazurek - Exploding Star Orchestra. Very creative stuff. Borders on avant-garde at times (some may consider it fully avant-garde). A 9 piece ensemble, with Mazurek on trumpet. Craig Taborn, one of the best current keyboardists, is a standout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea8iorT2TDY
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I spent Four hours working on my computer today. The computer is plugged into a 25 year old receiver that is using a pair of small bookshelve speakers that are at least 30 years old. As a near field system, it sounds great! If your system makes you happy and my system makes me happy, that’s all that matters! |
We are in the same boat... My small active speakers cost me 100 bucks 12 years ago... My Nos battery dac was bidded 20 bucks on Ebay... Nobody could believe that my sound is audiophile...😊 my headphone were vintage one paid 100 bucks ...my most costly component is a Sansui alpha paid 300 bucks 7 years ago and created 35 years ago...His 100 watts serve well my headphone .. 😁😉 😊 We love too much buying music ...
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From Brozman to Tingvall -- quite a contrast! This is pleasant enough but there’s something a bit too smooth about it, for my taste. I know -- first I complain about too much dissonance; now, it’s too much consonance. What can I say? I'm finding it increasingly challenging to find music I really like, at this point.
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Came upon a new release from John Zorn, entitled "Homenaje a Remedios Varo" (Como se dice en ingles = "Tribute to Remedios Varo"). Here's a track: https://youtu.be/mmdYRnKlxgE?si=hmTrtOLdoFzQUm1v The guitarist is Julian Lage. The whole album is on Spotify. I had never encountered John Zorn before; he seems to be a renaissance man.
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John Zorn is a genius for sure... his series of 32 albums "the books of angels" is completely astounding Klezmer- fusion jazz in a creative way... Forget it if you dont enjoy non classical jazz... Anyway it is costly to buy 32 albums... myself i dont like them all for sure but they are many treasures... Description of the 32 albums here : https://johnzornresource.com/book-of-angels
I will put Zorn spiritual jazz with Sun Ra cosmic jazz and some other completely original creators as the spiritual jazz series albums especially with Japanese musicians..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNv2RxjsbWA&t=441s Jazz/ Klezmer/ fusion at his peak... an example : Bar Kokhba Sextet - Lucifer (Book of Angels Vol 10)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNFh2FsJp8o now this other album as you can see is completely different : John Zorn - Marc Ribot – Asmodeus (Book Of Angels Volume 7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAZv11A-DpI
This first album though is one of my best one :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53YGLrK1JzA&list=PLec18SnEW_3wv53gH3Af3vo26CxFaIN2s
By the way i dont like klezmer nor fusion in general or in particular but as i already said we must make many exceptions in life and about our tastes criteria when we encounter musical geniuses... I dont listen music styles or genres now so much but more the musicians as interpreters or creators ... Then no style or genre is out of my collection anymore... What is music ? It is what musicians do first and last .... Nothing else...Nevermind the language they use , it is about what they do with it... Music is a gesture of all the body with or without instruments ...The basis is time, timing and rythm...
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This John Zorn CD I bought years ago and had mixed feelings about it and a few other Zorn CDs I purchased. It goes without saying that if you are having mixed feelings (or second thoughts) about an artist, you will stop spending your hard earned money on him/her. Voodoo • Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet (spotify.com) Fast forward to when I happily started using Spotify and could listen to an album before buying it and I can now explore Zorn freely and pick and choose songs I like. I just put together this John Zorn Book Of Angels playlist I titled John Zorn 1 BOA (book of angels). It comprises the first 8 BOA sessions in chapter "1". When time permits I plan to make 3 more chapters covering all of the BOA sessions to give a listen. John Zorn 1 BOA - playlist by Paul Irishman | Spotify I listened to BOA Vol. 1 in its entirety and it is by no means "chaotic noise" Some of the songs were quite enjoyable. However if you like to use genres for music/artists I would not call Book of Angels Volume 1 "Astaroth" jazz. I do not know what genre I would call it. Maybe abstract music? world music?
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