Jazz for aficionados

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

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

@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.

A different church:

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

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

Like going to Church after not going for a while:

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?

Chick Corea -  (gone 1 year now).

Sade

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.

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)

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".

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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 -

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.

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 .

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 .

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.

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

@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'

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

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...

😁😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

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...

Thanks for the Johnny Smith, mahgister.  Wonderful player and a favorite.
 

Well , I’ve been all over mahgister .At least you live in a land that all over the world

is thought well of . That’s why my travel coats have maple on them.

I’ve been in all ten and IMO Canada stops at Ontario down near London , Waterloo etc .

Manitoba has it rough period . Sask has same First Nation problems, Alberta’s

real name is Texas North , BC I can’t speak Chinese and can’t go over a million for a house.

O’Canada is in Ontario, Quebec , NB ,NS and PIE . Newfy’s beats me .

Best of all are Quebec , most interesting , NB , best place to raise kids, Nova Scotia is great because I am 70% Scottish and Halifax has nice views.          PIE ,  F  spuds .

Alas! I never has been...

To be frank i only travelled by reading books...

My work schedule was heavy and i never had the money to spend to travel...I bought too many thousand books... I paid my house in short number of years because of that instead of travels expanse...I never had debt in all my life...

In music i like musician most than the genre in which they play...

I dont like heavy metal for example but nevermind i even discovered great musician there...

Then when i speak about music here it is not so much about jazz but mostly about a specfic jazz musician...

Jonnhy Smith is a great guitarist never mind the genre in which he play...

My dear @mahgister, I had no idea you could swing like that! Ever been to Kansas City, MO or St. Louis, MO?

My dear @mahgister, I had no idea you could swing like that! Ever been to Kansas City, MO or St. Louis, MO?

3 of America's best Musical Greats .

Carmen Gomes Inc. Ray!

In making this album, Peter Bjørnild (bassist) writes, "We quickly realized that we did not want to make a tribute album. Rather we would pay our respects to Ray by following the advice Ray gave to Willie Nelson at a recording session: ’Don’t think about how anybody else does it, just do it the way that YOU feel it.’ So we took the songs back to their bare essentials, tried to hear them as if they had just been written and in so doing making them our own."

And a fresh sound they indeed deliver. This is their music, with a nod to the master here and there. Never over-produced, always respecting each other, the musicians find a nice balance of supporting each other, challenging each other, complementing each other, never stepping on one another.

The song that I most enjoyed on my first listen was "CC Rider" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant (circa 1924, also known as "See See Rider Blues"). As Bjørnild comments in the liner notes, "Here Tettero’s guitar is the 2nd protagonist in this story of a love affair taking a wrong turn. The guitar is of equal importance to Gomes’ voice, it’s the CC Rider Carmen is singing about. Listen how they keep on challenging each other yet never get in each other’s way. That kind of communication and musical empathy is a rare find."

A rare find indeed. And a rare treat to hear. https://positive-feedback.com/reviews/music-reviews/carmen-gomes-ray/

After my discovery of Pat Martino guitar very impressive original improvising pulsating chords in fired  creativity, thanks to frogman advice; now a masterful craftsman  of subtle tone hues and melody, Johnny Smith... With Grant Green and Martino in my favorite artists list together...

I am in heaven...

Cowboy Bebop OST 1 - Tank! - YouTube

Cowboy Bebop - Tank Live - YouTube

I listened to The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery again last night.  Been a while. 

I don't know how I hadn't noticed it before, but does anybody know why Wes and the pianist flip sides on 2 of the tracks?  The rest of the album, the piano is toward the right, and Wes is on the left.  For 2 tracks, it's just the opposite.  I don't think it's a channel flop; I didn't notice the bass or drums moving.  Maybe I was just so puzzled by the guitar and piano that I didn't notice, though.

I wasn't paying attention to what the tracks were, so I don't know exactly which 2 it is.  But it's the 3rd or 4th, and then one near the end.