Coincidently I heard this last night for the first time at a record store. Pretty wild. Herbie was a big A&R guy for Atlantic so he had a lot of freedom to do what he wanted and he did. So his albums are pretty eclectic at times. I'm a selective fan and would recommend anyone curious about his albums to peruse the liner notes and/or stream before buying anything.
Another more exotic effort was an album he recorded with an Oud player back in the 60s. I forget the title?
July 3, 1958 Players: Miles Davis — trumpet Cannonball Adderley — alto saxophone John Coltrane — tenor saxophone Bill Evans — piano Paul Chambers — double bass Jimmy Cobb — drums Miles, Cannonball and Coltrane trading licks; jaw dropping solos! Jimmy Cobb is great on this one, his drumming is fantastic! Bill Evans is kind of lost in the sound and is laid back, but with the brass players in this lineup, he didn't need to be flashy. Miles knew how to put a great band together, expand his and his players musical palate, and move music forward, for sure!
I listened to this yesterday. Or more accurately, I heard this yesterday. If there was any life during the session, the ECM aesthetic took it out back and blew it to kingdom come. I doubt I could remember a single note that was played. Kinda par for the course for this label. Nevermind being background music -- this doesn't even rise to that level.
Well- very impressive. The guy swings like crazy and some of those tunes are fairly complex. Great stuff! Must buy this.
Miles with Trane - In Stockholm 1960 Complete. Authorized Dragon 4 CD set from 1992. Also includes the autumn concerts with Sonny Stitt.
Slow, dramatic French noir thriller. I really enjoy the film. Jeanne Moreau was beautiful, and the plot is quite exciting. Also, after watching it I better understood the music and the way it was put together; it was improvised while the musicians watched the movie scenes on a screen.
Had to drive for an hour today with my wife, to visit her mother. I already gave up to play "my music" at these moments. So I suffered for an hour - I'm not able to abstract myself from the music even if I don't like it. So after an hour of noise, I'm referring to the radio, I needed a detox once at home. What better to clean your ears than a big good old trombone: Julien Priester, Keep Swingin', 1960
This was a great, but very interesting album that he did. I would love to have gotten inside the studio sessions to find out what it was they were after. The title gets plenty of play, but grows on me with every listen. Dexter Gordon's GO strikes me in a similar fashion. The front cover is one of my favorites as well.
Ben Webster with the Oscar Peterson trio; his tone is so distinct. They both play well together, also the BW Meets OP lp is a great one, that being my introduction to the saxophonist.
Sonny Rollins - What's New? (1962 / 2009 Pure Pleasure LP) Quite an idiosyncratic album but I dig it. Almost Tiki- lounge friendly latin exotica in places but then Sonny comes in with some more abstract, harder-edged lines and all of a sudden we're into The New Thing territory. This reissue is very nice sounding too.
I'm one of the few people who don't find this album worth shouting about. It's not like it has no redeeming value. Far from it, as it is Sonny Rollins. I want to like it more than I do. I'm exhausted from some work I did for a friend so I wanted something easy on the nerves yet not soporific. NP Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (CTI) reissued by ORG Music A perennial favoite of Lon's and it has become my favorite of the titles of Jobim that I own. The title track is fantastic. I don't miss the wailing guitar at all.
NP Baden Powell- Le Genie de Baden Powell (Festival) French lp BP with bass, drums, percussion and a few vocals. Magnifique!
I am with Six , for me Bobo Stenson is sadly under appreciated I too listen early in the morning and throughout the day Give a listen to his recording with Don Cherry , it is magical
NP Duke Pearson - Profile (Blue Note) Japanese RVG Remaster Trio outing w/Gene Taylor and Lex Humphries.
On my jazz menu today. Somewhat of a geographic theme, from a desert with a firepole in it, onward to Paree, ending up in San Francisco:
The 80s... Was that the worst jazz decade since the 50s ? If I think about my (small) collection, and take all the Bill Evans final recordings out of the equation, I can hardly think of a handful of good ones from that decade. Yes there are always good albums every year, but... You know what I mean... There was a lack of... enthusiasm in jazz (IMO). Today I'll play this one from 1983: Dave Holland was probably my favorite jazz player during the 80s.
Not sure I agree with this. At the end of the 70s and early 80s I would say that a lot of attention was being paid to jazz again after a few years when a fair number of interesting albums had only come out on small and underground labels. Some of the major labels were signing jazz artists again e.g. Columbia with Dexter Gordon, Arthur Blythe, Wynton (and Branford later); and island set up a specialist jazz label Antilles that recorded Ornette, Shannon Jackson, Gil Evans, Air etc. And there was a lot of interest around Miles' comeback in 1981. In the UK, even regular rock weeklies like the NME had regular features and reviews on jazz artists- Sun Ra, Braxton are ones I remember seeing. And the interest was such that a new jazz magazine could open - first quarterly and then monthly - The Wire.