For father's day, my son got me two of those multi-disc sets of Wes Montgomery (1958-1960, 1960-1962)...no, I'm sure they're not a high-end audiophile product, but they are great fun to listen to... Also found a copy of Harry Connick, Jr's "Eleven" in a thrift yesterday...heartfelt dixieland
This one again. These concerts feature some wonderfully recorded piano. And I really enjoy the music. Keith Jarrett "A Multitude of Angels" Disc 2, Ferrara concert It sounds fantastic today.
So yer saying Miles pieced together the "Calypso Frelimo" track personally and not Teo? As in sitting in the control room or wherever editing together the various takes himself? All respect but given the similar types of edits Teo did on Bitches Brew etc, I find it hard to believe that it wasn't Teo. Not that it really matters...whoever it was, they're sloppy edits.
I'm sure Teo did the editing, although there were certainly times, like in making In a Silent Way, when Miles sat there in the editing room; and Miles most definitely not only approved everything but gave Teo carte blanche to make certain kinds of edits especially in those days where there was more of a kind of cut together, rock record-making aesthetic they were exploring. But it was a kind of collaboration and the point aesthetically of what they were doing at the time wasn't necessarily to make smooth, unnoticed edits all the time. Like, here's Teo on In a Silent Way: You know, even on Bitches Brew and all that stuff, that was all mechanically done in the editing room. All subject to Miles' approval. He came to the session, I mean the editing room, about six times in his lifetime while I was with him at CBS. And the one time that he did come when we were doing In a Silent Way, and everybody says that's a classic record. Sure it is a classic record. I said, "Look at it, I've mixed everything now on this particular record, I think you'd better get your ass down here because," I said, "I'm really bewildered, because I've got 30, 35 reels of quarter-in masters, and I said, I gotta cut it down to two, an A side and a B side." And I said, "If you don't come, I'm gonna make the cuts anyway." He said, "Aw, ****, I'll be right down." So he came down, and he stayed with me most of the day, and what happened was that he, we, cut out everything down to two reels of tape with eight and a half minutes on each side, and then he started to leave. I said, "Where the hell you going?" He said, "That's my record." I said, "Wait a minute, you can't do this. They're going to skin you alive, they'll do me in." They wanted to do me in anyway, because we were kind of rebels at the time. And I said... "give me a couple days and I'll see what I can figure out," because we've got these two reels with one eight and a half, nine minutes on one side, and something on the other side. So what I did, I copied little excerpts of the very, if you listen to it very carefully, you'll hear a lot of repeats, but you don't know that they're repeats, because it sounds like a continuous song, and a continuous performance. I bridged... I made 18 minutes... I mean the eight and a half minutes or nine minutes come up to eighteen and a half, nineteen or twenty minutes on that side. I said, "I'm home free." And I did the same thing on Side B. And then, the record became a classic.
Bob Dylan "Together Through Life" Blu-Spec CD2 This album was a real sleeper for me, I like it more and more as time goes by. It says a lot to someone of a "certain age." And it sounds like Texas to me. .. there's a bit of nostalgia involved.
This was the second album released from the RFH concert - the original also has "Angel" and "Stone Free." Gil Evans - Gil Evans Live At The Royal Festival Hall London 1978
Was playing the other night on Dolphy's date of birth. Eric Dolphy - Far Cry Love the first side and was there ever a cooler rhythm section than Haynes, Carter and Byard?
I love that piece of music, edits and all. In fact the edits feel integral to me, an aspect of the final composition. L.
This morning, a garage sale turned up this in excellent condition for 50 cents. I am a Bill Evans devotee, so this is nice
Another garage sale item today. Not profound, but fun it goes on the shelf with these The "friend" was his wife, Dinah Washington
Played tonight: Shelly Manne Mannekind 1972, MFCD 853. Mainstream records has several good albums, very good artists, great compilations... But a "B sound" when compared to other labels. (Guess @Lonson said something similar). I don't know why mobile fidelity chose to work on this one, but I'm glad they did. Still, if the original sound was not recorded in the best way... Nevertheless I'm a fan of this one. And the mofi CD sounds pretty good. But I wonder how the recent japanese reissue sounds. @Bobby Boogaloo do you have it? A strange/cool album
This was another 50 cent item, a 10 inch LP in a classical style box. The box was made in UK, but inside was the record in a French sleeve. Sidney Bechet's score for a ballet. If he had lived longer, maybe there would have been some other Ellingtonian work from Bechet. You can see some of the ballet, for which Bechet composed and performed, here Here is a documentary about the ballet - worth watching. La Nuit est une Sorcière: Ballet de Sidney Bechet The French 10 inch sleeve
Ok, Helen Merrill, I sure will... Dream of You (Fresh Sounds twofer, backed with Merrill at Midnight) Dream of You consists of tracks arranged by Gil Evans, a handful of them feature strings. The title track, “Where Flamingoes Fly”, and “I’m Fool to Want You” would make nice tracks to check out for a sample. Helen knows how to sing a tune.
Time for a martini and some jazz. Like J.J. Johnson's Blue Trombone album, I also feel like this one gets a little overshadowed and forgotten by modern jazz aficionados because of what I like to call Columbia's "1959 Trifecta" of Kind of Blue, Time Out, and Mingus Ah Um. For me, this album and Sonny Rollins' Way Out West together form the perfect case for jazz not needing a piano to be amazing. The Gerry Mulligan Quartet - What Is There to Say? Original 1959 six-eye stereo pressing on Columbia Records
Part two of "Jazz Doesn't Need a Piano to Be Amazing." Sonny Rollins - Way Out West Original 1957 US pressing on Contemporary Records
Nice. I'd love to hear this. Reminds me - I gotta finish his autobiography, Treat It Gentle, a book I started but put down after this looooong story about his Pop that went on for pages and pages. I do recommend it - but do be gentle and patient!
Up jamming with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Live in New Orleans. Nice DVD I just picked up. Rather dsmal YT copy (audio is fine, though) They hot and nobody's dancing. Weird. Good time anyhow!
Found a minty original of this a little while ago. It's from the late 60s but session is from earlier when Lee Morgan was still in the band. Wonder why it wasn't released contemporaneously? "United" is the best track!
