Nick Brignola – On A Different Level (Reservoir Music) — With Kenny Barron, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette
Anyone else joining us for Jazz rather than the Super Bowl? The Paul Blet Quintet: Barrage Paul Bley: Piano Marshall Allen: Alto Sax Dewey Johnson: Trumpet Eddie Gomez: Bass Milford Graves: Percussion Recorded October 20, 1964 and a fine barrage it is with the great Milford Graves on batterie.
Jack DeJohnette - "Made In Chicago" (2015) Jack DeJohnette (drums), Muhal Richard Abrams (piano), Roscoe Mitchell (saxes), Larry Gray (bass, violoncello), Henry Threadgill (alto sax, bass flute). Recorded live at the Chicago Jazz Festival, August 2013 (ECM CD 2015) Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, Jack DeJohnette, Larry Gray and Muhal Richard Abrams
I have been playing these guys ever since I got them. And now waiting for some MM reinforcements... All MM 33, KoB MFSL
Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons: Firebirds Prince Lasha: Alto saxophone, alto clarinet, flute Sonny Simmons: Alto saxophone, English horn Bobby Hutcherson: Vibraphone Buster Williams: Bass Charles Moffett: Drums So much important, vital and wonderful music that has never been touched by any of the audiophile reissue labels. Well, as long as we have another version of Soul Station to look forward to......
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound (1966) Roscoe Mitchell (alto sax, clarinet), Lester Bowie (trumpet, flugelhorn), Maurice McIntyre (tenor sax), Lester Lashley (trombone, cello), Malachi Favors (bass), Alvin Fielder (drums) (Delmark CD 1996)
Thomas Heberer / Achim Kaufmann / Ken Filiano – Interstices (nuscope recordings) — With Thomas Heberer (cornet, trumpet, quarter-tone trumpet), Achim Kaufmann (piano, prepared piano), Ken Filiano (double-bass, prepared double bass)
1970 Blue Note (Liberty UA) stereo repressing, VAN GELDER stampers I know some here are turned off by "jazz organ" albums but this one is packed with great playing by Mitchell, Vick and Green. One of the best in Patton's discography, and a real blast!
Both great ones. Re: the Ellington the old French Columbia CD issue is nice - very warm and vinyl like. I actually give it a slight edge over the sacd which is also excellent.
You don't happen to have the catalogue number on that French CD do you? A cursory search is not bringing it up.
With hindsight, based on the recorded evidence, it's hard for me to imagine how Brubeck and his groups got the reputation for not being "smoking," beyond the luscious "dry martini chill" tone of Desmond's alto. His groups were always pretty fiery (the live recordings dating back to JAZZ FROM OBERLIN capture this nicely) and his own playing often bordered on or even crossed fully into atonal territory (forget about "just" dissonant!), more so as the years went on. I view Brubeck and his groups as having gotten a lot of unfair assessments of their music just based on the fact it happened to sell. That of course is the kiss of death in most jazz circles, triggering either faint praise or outright derision.
I don't have it where I am now unfortunately but can check later and let you know. As I recall - though don't quote me on this - it's the same catalog number as the CBS French LP reissue but with a different prefix for CD. Not the easiest to find but a good sounding CD. I was a shade disappointed in the SACD, which has terrific detail but I find has less midrange magic, especially in the lower mids.
Certainly not me! Big fan of B-3 in jazz, and this is a superb album (I have never heard a bad one by Patton!).
DUOLOGUE (MCG Jazz, recorded 2013). Wonderful duos by Wilson and Nash, just what the title implies. You never miss the lack of a harmony instrument.
New Orleans Nights - Louis Armstrong And The All Stars (Decca/Originals) Two tracks recorded 1950, and four from 1954.
