Jazz Beat (Part 27)

What, no rolling on the couch?

 

It's hilarious how revered these guys are on this board almost 40 years after I uttered to my friends "they suck" upon hearing Live at Budokan.

 

I can't link it because it's one of those "nebulous" Fresh Sound "bootleg mafia" releases Look on their site. Catalog number NR3CD-101.

 

Kenny Dorham - Matador

Fantastic album with a slight South American vibe, largely because it followed a 21-day tour Dorham made with a jazz festival on that continent. He was profoundly influenced by the experience, and said that he was simply "shattered" by the music he heard, particularly in Brazil.

The track "Prelude" features Dorham accompanied only by Bobby Timmons.

• Kenny Dorham - trumpet
• Jackie McLean - alto saxophone
• Bobby Timmons - piano
• Teddy Smith - bass
• J.C. Moses - drums

Recorded April 15, 1962

[United Artists/EMI Japan 2010 CD]

 

I just played that record the other day.

 

NP Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers (Blue Note) MM stereo reissue 33.3 aka Moanin'
Somehow I never got around to buying this album until now. I have heard the album of course, especially the evergreen opening track. This is the first time I've been able to really listen to it.

There's a reason this album is so famous. Because it really is good.

 

The Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Live In '58 DVD from Jazz Icons is excellent. The same quintet as featured on Moanin' performs in Belgium one month after the album was released. At the end of the title track, Blakey says "Take a bow, Bobby."

 

Thanks. I've seen that and agree. I love Golson's playing and he didn't play with Blakey long, did he?

 

I've read that lineup of the Jazz Messengers was only together about six months, but I don't know if Blakey and Golson played together on other occasions? There is also this live album, which I don't have a CD version of...




...and this soundtrack recorded a few days later in Paris.

 

(Blue Note Japan King LP GXK-8128)

 

Heck of a lineup on this Strata-East album; it reads like a Miles Davis 70s alumni list: Carlos Garnett, Mtume, Gary Bartz, Billy Hart, Leon Ndugu Chancler...

 

I wound up enjoying the duo tracks (Weston and Gill) the most on this CD: Randy Weston--Solo, Duo & Trio

[Weston (p), Sam Gill (b), Art Blakey (d)]



"Get Out Of Town": https://myspace.com/randywestonmusic/music/song/get-out-of-town-93033410-103367585

 

The other album I sought out after hearing Bolin on Cobham's Spectrum: Alphonse Mouzon--Mind Transplant

[Mouzon (d, kybds), Tommy Bolin, Jay Graydon, Lee Ritenour (g), Jerry Peters (kybds), Henry Davis (b)]



"Nitroglycerin": http://grooveshark.com/s/Nitroglycerin/6z9enE?src=5

 

Two down (these albums) and two CDs remaining (The Return Of Art Pepper and The Artistry Of Pepper) to obtain most of the Mosaic Select--Art Pepper set separately:

Art Pepper--Modern Art and The Art Of Pepper

[Pepper (as), Carl Perkins, Russ Freeman (p), Ben Tucker (b), Chuck Flores (d)]



"Holiday Flight":

 

Is this jazz? I'm not sure that it's even Bossa Nova, but it's very good.

 

Keith Jarrett At The Blue Note: The Complete Recordings - CD 3 (ECM Records) — With Gary Peacock, Paul Motian

 

To my knowledge never reissued in CD format......

 

Easily my favorite version of the Messengers. I'd highly recommend seeking this out (3 Original RCA France albums on 2 CDs):



Kenny Clarke subs for Blakey on drums on Vol. 3.

http://www.amazon.fr/Au-Club-St-Ger...d+the+jazz+messengers+at+the+club+st.+germain

http://www.discogs.com/Art-Blakey-Et-Les-Jazz-Messengers-Au-Club-St-Germain-1958/release/2224391

 

Claude Williamson (piano), Buddy Clark (bass), Larry Bunker (drums)

(Affinity LP AFF-62)

 

Yeah I was never a big Cheap Trick fan, even back in the day. But I just found your comment about "Kiss records" immediately triggered a remembrance of the lyric to "Surrender" (it's in that huge part of my brain dedicated to junk I have no need to remember, pushing out the stuff I DO need to remember....).

But when I woke up, Mom and Dad
Are rolling on the couch
Rolling numbers, rock and rollin'
Got my KISS records out

 

I think those lyrics are imprinted on ALL of our brains whether we like it or not.

 

Actually, I was reading the liners last night (nice booklet, btw), and in it Jordi claims that he actually worked with the artists to compile this set. Who am I NOT to trust the ever-truthful Mr. Pujol?:

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Noct...&sr=1-3&keywords=complete+nocturne+recordings

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Comp...od-Series-Volume-One-3-CD-Set/release/5731236

We're still waiting for Vol. 2 16 years on, btw

I don't know who it is on the Amazon Marketplace that actually believes they're gonna get $250+ for this, but hey, gotta try, right?

 

On the turntable last night: